Health Watch.(Health & Fitness)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July, 2000

It's supposed to be a bad bug season this summer. Arm yourself with these survival tips from the magazine Men's Health: Don't wear red, blue or black. These colors attract mosquitoes and bees. And load up on the garlic before heading outside. When your pores release its odor, insects take cover.

Unfortunately, so might your date. The cancer-fighting capabilities of red wine are becoming clearer. Researchers at University of North Carolina discovered that the compound resveratrol, which acts like an antibiotic to guard grapes from fungus, might turn off a protein that guards cancer cells from cancer-fighting therapies such as chemotherapy. Scientists have known since 1997 that there's a link between resveratrol and fighting cancer, but they didn't...