Many people are affected from diseases like cold, flu and cough in winter season but there are few things that can be included in daily food to avoid these diseases.
Chicken Soup
Chicken soup is a nutritious food for every season but it especially helps in protection against virus of cold in winter season. If boiled vegetables are also included in this soup (using chicken vegetable soup instead of simple chicken soup) then its positive effects become more prominent.
Chicken Soup
Fresh Fruits
Orange, grapefruit and all the other fresh fruit of winter have high amount of Vitamin C in them which is very useful for reducing severity of cough and cold. It is known through 21 different medical studies that taking just 1 to 8 grams of Vitamin C daily can save you from cold and cough in winters.
Fresh Fruits
Onion and Garlic
The daily consumption of garlic, round onion and green onions can also protect you from, flu, cold and several other diseases of winter. The experts say that they contain several such natural chemicals that not only work to protect wounds from rotting but also strengthen the immune system that fights against diseases. Garlic has also an additional advantage that it helps to clear nasal congestion.
Onion and Garlic
Ginger
Using ginger tea for sore throat is common in our country but now the experts have discovered that ginger has such compounds that fights against all the viruses of influenza and reduces the severity of cough and flu.
Ginger
Honey
Honey is famous for healing wounds since centuries and now modern science has discovered that honey has several such natural properties which make it an important weapon against viruses, microbes and fungus. Using pure honey in winter provides several benefits apart from protecting you from cold, flu and cough. But children less than one year of age should not be given honey because few of its ingredients can prove harmful for them.
Honey
Yogurt
It is a common misconception that yogurt should not be used in winters but its beneficial effects are for every season. It has been recently discovered that yogurt contains such natural microorganism that prevents the growth of several types of viruses and thus foils their attack. It also includes flu virus. But it is better to use simple natural yogurt instead of the one manufactured by any company.
Yogurt
Selenium rich Foods
Selenium is an element that strengthens our immune system while its daily use in appropriate quantity increases such elements that help to expel flu virus from our bodies. Almonds have large quantity of selenium and selenium requirement can be completed by eating just 10 grams of almonds. But the best source of selenium are sea foods like lobster, tuna, cod fish, crabs etc. are full of selenium. But if you include 50 grams of fish in your daily diet then it will help you by providing full quantity of selenium and other additional nutritional elements.
Selenium rich Foods
Mushrooms
Mushrooms usually grow in rainy season but they are extensively used in herbal medicine because they have several such elements that prevent wounds from rotting and also strengthen immune system.
Mushrooms
Black Pepper
Black pepper also helps to protect you from cold, flu and cough during winter season. Black pepper increases the effectiveness of medicines if it is used with mixture of ginger and vinegar. It also contains a compound “piperine” which has the ability to reduce pain and temperature.
Black Pepper
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