{"id":12275,"date":"2011-03-04T21:06:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T04:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/?p=12275"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:45:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:45:45","slug":"zinc-speeds-recovery-from-colds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2011\/03\/zinc-speeds-recovery-from-colds\/","title":{"rendered":"Zinc speeds recovery from colds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/flu-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"manflu\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"pic_100px\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/healthspanuk.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/cd001364.pdf\" rel=\"external\">Cochrane Systematic Review<\/a> of 15 trials (1,360 people), released this month, states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe found that zinc (lozenges or syrup) is bene\ufb01cial in reducing the duration and severity of the common cold in healthy people, when taken within 24 hours of onset of symptoms. People taking zinc are also less likely to have persistence of their cold symptoms beyond seven days of treatment. Zinc supplementation for at least \ufb01ve months reduces incidence, school absenteeism and prescription of antibiotics for children with the common cold.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.healthspan.co.uk\/2011\/02\/16\/zinc-speeds-recovery-from-colds\/\">healthspan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cochrane Systematic Review of 15 trials (1,360 people), released this month, states: \u201cWe found that zinc (lozenges or syrup) is bene\ufb01cial in reducing the duration and severity of the common cold in healthy people, when taken within 24 hours of onset of symptoms. People taking zinc are also less likely to have persistence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}