Thread: Preventing colds may be as easy as vitamin ZZZ (AP)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090112/ap_on_he_me/med_colds_sleep]Preventing colds may be as easy as vitamin ZZZ (AP) [/URL]



AP - Fluff up the pillows and pull up the covers. Preventing the common cold may be as easy as getting more sleep. Researchers paid healthy adults $800 to have cold viruses sprayed up their noses, then wait five days in a hotel to see if they got sick. Habitual eight-hour sleepers were much less likely to get sick than those who slept less than seven hours or slept fitfully.