Chicken Soup to Beat a Cold is not just an Old Wives’ Tale!

A major study found that chicken soup helps to prevent the migration of inflammatory white cells into the lungs - this is pretty significant because cold symptoms are a response to the accumulation of these cells in the bronchial tubes. The amino acid cysteine, which is released from chicken during cooking, is chemically similar to the bronchitis drug, acetylcysteine, which is regularly prescribed in a bid to inhibit the inflammatory response but who wouldn’t opt for a daily bowl of deliciously-rich and comforting chicken broth versus a few hard-to-swallow pills? Not me! If you haven't already gotten into the chicken soup habit, start now, beat the colds and flu viruses that are all around us right now and be assured that great granny really did know best! Try my Chicken and Barley Broth - a fabulously-comforting concoction!