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Immune-boosting natural food
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Naturopath Jodi Van Dyk has revealed the meaning of “you are what you eat” and given us some idea of super food for the immune system.
Good choice of diet provides us tons of energy and strength for our body. On the contrary, poor choice of diet lowers our energy level. Our choice of diet is thus essential to the functions of the body including the immune system.
The combination of healthy food, variety of fruits and vegetables, grains and high quality protein is foundation for good health.
So, what kind of food helps promote the immune system?
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Antioxidant rich food
A lot of vitamin and nutrients help fight against free-radicals. These substances are, for instance, vitamin A, C and E, flavonoids and anthocyanidins.
Antioxidants protect the body from free-radical bombardment. Free-radicals are byproducts of our bodily functions triggered by the consumption of alcohol and junk food, or, the exposure to smoking, pollutions and UV rays. These functions have adverse effect on our immune system. Elimination of free-radicals would then help to maintain strong and healthy immune system.
Here are the foods that are rich in antioxidant
• Berries – blueberry, raspberry and blackberry contain high dose of anthocyanins which is why they are reddish or purplish and potent in their antioxidant properties.
• Almonds – rich in vitamin E
• Orange – known to be rich in vitamin C. An orange (131 g) is packed with almost 100% of the recommended daily intake of vitamin C. Vitamin C can help promote the immune system and fight against free-radicals at the same time.
• Garlic – add some when pan frying your food, make pasta or mix it in your salad dressing. Not only garlic can spice things up a little but it can boost your immune system. The herb has long been used as antibiotics and powerful weapon against bacteria and virus.
• Ginger – Ginger is antibiotic and it has a lot of benefits for healing and prevention of inflammation.
Each of the food listed above is good for our immune system but the best choice for maintaining holistic health is to eat balanced a diet.
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Foods to eat when you have a cold or the flu Never underestimate the healing power of food when you’re sick.
When you have a cold of the flu, drinking a lot of fluid is important and the best way to make sure you have enough is to include tea or soup in your daily meals. This can help relieve the symptoms.
Flu-fighting tea
3 cm long Ginger
1/4 tea spoon of Cinnamon
1/41 Lemon
1 cup of hot water
Scrape the ginger and squeeze half a lemon into the hot water and add cinnamon.
Anti-germ soup
3 cm long Ginger
1 chili
1 piece of garlic
Lemon juice (as you prefer)
2 cups of water
Boil ginger, chili and garlic together. Filter out the soup and add lemon juice.
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