During winter, many of us think it’s time to use supplements to fix or strengthen our immune system. But before we decide supplementing with natural or synthetic pills, let’s take a quick look at what specialists have to say about the natural foods and habits can help us stay in shape throughout the cold season.
Whole foods
Remove as many processed foods as you can from your diet and replace them with whole foods. The difference? The former are made in laboratories and factories, while the latter come from nature and are therefore much healthier. Whole means easily recognizable – you know right away whether it is a piece of beef, an apple or a bean. Processed means you have to take courses that teach you how to navigate through the list of ingredients in the desperate attempt to recognize a name.
Fruits and vegetables
Remove sugar from your diet and try to replace it with fruits and vegetables to satisfy your sweet cravings.
Powerful immune system – raw pollen, cold pressed oil and probiotics
Raw pollen
Introduce raw pollen supplements to your diet, containing lactofermens that balance your intestinal flora, enzymes that improve the absorption of vitamins and minerals in food, and antioxidants that act against free radicals permanently present in the body. Pollen is also a good antiseptic and natural antibiotic.
Cold pressed oil
Replace refined vegetable oils with cold pressed oils. This is a much healthier means of oil extraction, that doesn’t use heat which could degrade the oil’s nutritional values. Needlessss to say, it is much more beneficial for our bodies and even tastier.
Natural probiotics – pickles, kefir
Feed your intestinal flora natural probiotics – pickles, yoghurt, water or milk kefir, kombucha, kimchi. All of these are quality foods for the “good” intestinal microbes.
Powerful immune system – green salads, beef, nuts
Green leaves
Eat as many greens such as spinach, kale, stevia, parsley, rucola, valerian. All of those are rich in vitamin C, a powerful antioxidant that stimulates the production of white cells and antibodies.
Seashells and legumes
Legumes are a good source of vegetable protein, but also zinc, mineral that increases the production of white cells and makes them stronger. Also, for zinc, you can eat seashells and crab meat, as well as beef and turkey.
Nuts and seeds as a snack
Choose nuts and seeds as a snack between meals – they are rich in vitamin E, which helps the body fight bacteria and viruses.
Various colors in the dish
Make sure half of your plate is always full of different and colorful vegetables. This ensures that you get the maximum of bioflavonoids, phytonutrients that protect your body from harmful external dangers.
Garlic and chili
Do not forget about garlic, onion, hot pepper, chili – all of them contain mucolytic, an agent that liquefies excess mucus during cold or flu.
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