The calcium in yogurt and other foods may help prevent high blood pressure. Besides yogurt, good sources of calcium include broccoli, salmon with bones, turnip greens and beans. Two teaspoons of blackstrap molasses has 400mg of potassium, almost as much as a banana. Potassium controls blood pressure. In foreign countries, drink carbonated bottled water, not plain bottled water.
Carbonation kills infection-causing microbes.
Please include your age and daytime phone number. Because of the volume of mail, not all will be answered. Your Yogurt - It fights colds. It's best to start at least three months ahead of cold season, says physician and researcher George Halpern of the University of California at Davis, because it takes time for yogurt to boost your resistance to germs. Halpern has found that eating two cups of yogurt each day for four months spurred a fourfold increase in the body's production of gamma interferon, which helps fight infection.