Eat healthy to prevent colds

We are in Winter, the season of cold, colds and flu, but in gastronomy we also have healthy nutrition and remedies for many ailments and diseases.

The sudden changes in temperature to which we subject the body in these cold winter months are the main breeding ground for our body to allow different pathologies to proliferate that translate into general malaise or colds.

Apart from all this, sharing a work area or public transport is another of the main contagion factors of this type of diseases that spread perfectly through the respiratory tract.

Today we are going to try to give some nutritional brushstroke to help improve the health of each one with the regular consumption of some food, which will not be magical, but surely its nutrients and active principles will help to create an authentic shield to the colds and colds.

In addition, nobody likes to be sick and much less in the Christmas days prior to the feast of the Magi …

Honey

This interesting traditional ointment, produced by the tireless bees, is a natural drug that includes medicinal substances such as beneficial plant acids in its composition, synthesized by animals in their constant flight between flowers through their pollen.

Its composition is mainly water and sugars apart from the aforementioned plant nutrients, what it provides is an intense supply of minerals, vitamins and antioxidants.

It serves us to sweeten all kinds of foods, drinks and infusions and acts as antitusivo natural, but be careful with the amounts that it makes you fat ….

One tablespoon a day, and the natural shield of our body would already be activated.

The yogurt

The dairy ferment could not be a better ally for the body, in the white natural yogurts, we find an abundant source of natural probiotics or live bacteria, such as the famous and televised “lactobacillus” that helps to repopulate the bacterial flora of the stomach.

This is its function, to form a shield of health within the body, and thus protect ourselves from possible infections that come via food intake.

A glass of yogurt, without added sugars and preferably natural, without fanciful colors or exotic flavors, will give us not only freshness in its consumption, but also an interesting protection, to put aside the handkerchiefs in these first days of winter.

The cereals

Leaving aside the traditional wheat, in oats and rye We can find a great ally for health in these new foods, which, even though they were always with us, were used only for weight loss diets or animal feed.

These two whole grains contain beta-glucans, a type of fiber that supports the digestive system and has antioxidant and antimicrobial effects.

They also have incredible wound healing and healing abilities and are a perfect travel companion for antibiotics in their fight to eradicate infections from the body.

Taking a good dose of them a day, we will not only make and create a healthy breakfast habit, we will also be able to strengthen the body which anti bacteria and infection armor.

The lemon

Cousin brother of the anti-cold infantry of Oranges and Tangerines, due to its high vitamin C content, it is our new yellow protagonist, not so usual in the diet, which helps to strengthen the body.

In natural Lemon, we find vitamins, antioxidants, and antiseptic essential oils such as limonol, which is an exceptional anti-inflammatory and helps eliminate toxins through sweat.

Having a glass of a lemon for breakfast in the morning, apart from waking up suddenly due to the acidity and impact, we will be able to prevent our nostrils from the uncomfortable and constant runny nose that colds entail.

Not only with oranges we get vitamin C, now we can also give a new color to our breakfasts, and also some flavor …

Grapes

For the moment only the red ones, let’s leave the white ones for the traditional chimes or for another moment of consumption.

The red color that the skin of the grape generally contributes, contains a very interesting element for health, resveratrol, which is apart from a new fashion in cosmetics, a very powerful antioxidant that protects cells and delays aging.

Another of its unknown properties is also to fight colds and colds, since they have a content of sugars and healthy phytonutrients.

With the daily consumption of the fruit of the vine in its spherical and fungible version, or with the moderate intake of its fermented liquid in the form of wine, we can ensure the part of the shield that we lacked to complete our health barrier.

Besides, nobody likes to be sick and much less on Christmas days prior to the feast of the Three Kings …

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