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Green tea contains compounds that prevent infection and gargle with it fights the flu virus because it has compounds called catechins, which have been shown in laboratory research, the ability to prevent infection.

A small Japanese study of Shizuoka University showed that residents of nursing homes that were gargling with green tea three times daily for three months, were less likely to contract the flu than those who did not.

Researchers have yet to discover exactly how the catechins contained in tea work, but is believed to have a general effect as anti-viral.

Therefore gargling with green tea is an effective way to deal with the virus, because in this way would be exposed to the liquid longer.

Sleep problems increase with age, while those living in large cities generally sleep fewer hours a day, according to this study which involved 1,200 women over 16 years.

Among those who have trouble sleeping, 54% said some form of medication used to combat them, such as lorazepam (21.1%), the bromazepam (8.4%) and alplazolam (5.8%).

Although the results of this study show that the majority of women had good health symptoms, up to 39% suffered some type of pain or malaise, 19.7% suffered from anxiety and between 10% and 11% had mobility problems or performing daily activities.

In general, the elderly and lower socioeconomic status are detected major drawbacks of health.

Regarding the perception of health status in relation to the previous year, more than half of women surveyed (63%) recognized to be the same, while 15% claimed to be even worse. Only 17.7% declared to be in better health than a year earlier.