Super Foods To Boost Your Immune System

Boosting your immune system is a topic that often comes up as winter sets in. Adults and children start to get the sniffles. The yearly discussion about flu shots starts up again with all the arguments for and against. Magazines run articles on how to stave off winter illnesses like the common cold. Vitamin C flies off the shelves in your local health food store.

Super Foods To Boost Your Immune System :

Nuts
Nuts are full of antioxidants and vitamins. Most importantly they contain a good dose of zinc. Eating nuts may lower risk your risk of chronic disease and they are so easy to keep in your bag for when you need a quick snack.

Berries
Vitamin C is present in berries in very large amounts. Vitamin C is thought to prevent injury to cells and is therefore very useful in boosting your immune system. Dark berries in particular contain large doses of bioflavonoids that can act as antioxidants which will attack the free radicals moving around your body.

Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes contain large doses of vitamin A. Our skin needs good amounts of vitamin A to keep it healthy. When the largest organ in your body is healthy, you have a much better chance of staving off infection.

Mushrooms
Mushrooms are low-calorie foods rich in iron, zinc, fiber, essential amino acids and vitamins. It has long been known that mushrooms stimulate the immune system and help the body defend better against viruses and infections. Studies have shown that mushrooms have antiviral, antimicrobal and anticancer effect.

Tea
Hot tea like Chamomile, will help you in preventing sickness. Drinking about five cups of this hot brew will increase blood levels of certain compounds like poly-phenols, which in turn increases the anti bacterial activity in your body.