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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.
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