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Flu Fighters From Twitter Followers

Warm Books for Cold Days - Chicken Soup for the Soul Books
Warm Books for Cold Days - Chicken Soup for the Soul Books by Enokson
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Excerpt:

We asked you to tweet us your favorite flu cures, and boy, did you toss some weird ones our way. Sleeping in soggy wet socks? Yuck. Peroxide in the ears? No thanks. Triple dosing on cold medicine? Is that even legal? Here we've broken it down to the five most common flu cures you sent to us in 140 characters or less. Some work. Some don't. But at least none required getting your feet wet. Ah, just like mama used to prescribe. Tweeters say chicken soup, aka Jewish penicillin, is the ultimate comfort cure when you're under the weather. Science agrees. One 2000 study in the journal Chest found that a steaming bowl of homemade chicken soup enhanced the infection-fighting power of white blood cells, potentially diminishing cold and flu symptoms.

People:

Dr. Suzanne Koven

Overall Sentiment: 0.266066

Relevance: 0.331455

SentimentQuote
0.270167"Vitamin C has been studied for decades, and the results on its effectiveness in preventing or treating the colds and flu are mixed at best," she said. ...
0.228843"Vitamin C has been studied for decades, and the results on its effectiveness in preventing or treating the colds and flu are mixed at best," she said. "However, for good health, you do need about 75 to 100 mg of vitamin C daily, preferably from foods such as citrus fruit rather than supplements."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.49901
  • Mean: 0.249505
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Dr. Isaac Eliaz

Overall Sentiment: 0.125954

Relevance: 0.156761

SentimentQuote
0.0870832"Certain music, such as classical, opera and jazz, has been shown to help reduce stress, improve cardiovascular health, boost immunity, support metabolism, influence hormones and much more," said Dr. Isaac Eliaz, ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.0870832
  • Mean: 0.0870832
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

HealthCondition: flu

Overall Sentiment: -0.0667045

Relevance: 0.853792

Disambiguation: DiseaseOrMedicalCondition | CauseOfDeath | InfectiousDisease | RiskFactor | DiseaseReferences:
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