Today's useless fact - Is there anything I can add to my diet to help prevent insect bites?

Actually, garlic is a very healthy natural repellent, preventing not only insect bites but acne and a variety of infections. If you are worried about the smell factor, odorless garlic tablets/capsules are available. I've also been told that eating some fresh parsley after the garlic neutralizes the odor.

Drinking a little tonic water each day will keep the mosquitos off you, because of the quinine it contains. However I am not sure that's particularly good for you.

Don't use "Off" or any other chemical toxin on your skin because the absorption and damage to organs from these chemicals is more than most people realize -- i.e. the effects can even show up years later as the body's system deteriorates as a result.

Vitamins B 1, 6, 12 - any of them are natural repellents. They produce an odor on your skin that insects especially mosquitoes don't like.

Oh, and don't eat bananas - mosquitos adore their smell :) Check out the links in our Mosquito category for more.