If is important to keep your system built up during the flu season. It may be only a matter of making sure you are eating nutrient-packed meals. It has been proven that certain foods protect they body against illness. Best of all these foods taste great.
Fresh fruits and vegetable are filled with life giving nutrients and healing vitamins. The less cooking that is done to fresh vegetables, the better the nutrients are preserves. Eat fresh fruit instead of sugar filled junk foods.
Butternut squash, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, spinach and broccoli are filled with beta-carotene.
Spinach legumes, peanuts, whole grains, leafy green vegetables, eggs and milk are filled with vitamins, folate and b12.
Oranges, grapefruit, strawberries, green peppers and cabbage are filled with vitamin C.
Peanuts, sunflower seeds, eggs, spinach, whole grains, vegetable oils, and poultry are filled with vitamin E.
Fish, poultry, beef, pork, eggs, cheese, milk, peanut butter and whole grains are filled with zinc.
