Healthy Tip of the Week

Do you load up on vitamin C when you fly, yet still seem to come home with a cold? The airlines may not be to blame -- and germs may not be as fond of air travel as we think. A study in The Annals of Occupational Hygiene found significantly more bacteria present when boarding and exiting airplanes than during actual flights, suggesting that those flights might actually be the most germ-free part of our travels.