{"id":118691,"date":"2009-12-31T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2009\/12\/31\/try-ginseng-to-fight-a-winter-cold\/"},"modified":"2009-12-31T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T07:45:00","slug":"try-ginseng-to-fight-a-winter-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/118691","title":{"rendered":"Try Ginseng to Fight a Winter Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/healthy-eating\/\" rel=\"tag\">Healthy Eating<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/eat-this\/\" rel=\"tag\">Eat This<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2009\/12\/ginseng.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>We&#8217;ve just passed through the first week or so of official winter, so there&#8217;s truly no escaping the fact that cold season is upon us. To combat the possibility of catching a cold, many Canadians turn to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=vitamin%20C\">vitamin C<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=vitamin%20D\">vitamin D<\/a>, multivitamin and mineral support, and maybe even echinacea or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=resveratrol\">resveratrol<\/a>. But several studies have given credence to the use of an old Chinese Medicine remedy that you may want to add to your arsenal of cold-fighting nutrients.<\/p>\n<p>A study out of the University of Alberta published in <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/cgi\/content\/full\/173\/9\/1043\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Canadian Medical Association Journal<\/span><\/a> a few years back found that supplementing with an extract of North American <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=ginseng\">ginseng<\/a> lowers your chance of getting a cold and reduces the severity of colds once you have them. North American ginseng, grown primarily in Ontario, British Columbia and Wisconsin, is a root that resembles a parsnip in appearance and is highly valued for its medicinal properties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2009\/12\/31\/try-ginseng-to-fight-a-winter-cold\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Try Ginseng to Fight a Winter Cold<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2009\/12\/31\/try-ginseng-to-fight-a-winter-cold\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19295631\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2009\/12\/31\/try-ginseng-to-fight-a-winter-cold\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Health, Healthy Eating, Eat This We&#8217;ve just passed through the first week or so of official winter, so there&#8217;s truly no escaping the fact that cold season is upon us. To combat the possibility of catching a cold, many Canadians turn to vitamin C, vitamin D, multivitamin and mineral support, and maybe even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}