What should we eat to increase resistance and prevent flu during the changing seasons?

These foods will help you increase your resistance, fight flu and colds very effectively in the current sudden and cold weather changes.

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What to eat to increase resistance when changing seasons?

The temperature in the North is currently showing signs of decreasing quite a bit, preparing for winter. Meanwhile, the weather in the South is also changing erratically, with a lot of rain. The sudden drop in temperature weakens your immune system, increasing the risk of viruses and bacteria attacking, leading to common diseases such as flu and colds.

According to physician Bui Hong Minh - Vice President of the Ba Dinh Oriental Medicine Association ( Hanoi ), chicken is a nutritious dish, very good for nourishing the body, and at the same time strengthens the immune system.

Chicken can be processed into many delicious dishes and is also a valuable medicine in Oriental medicine, capable of curing flu and colds.

"Cooking chicken porridge will help women have a nutritious dish, which is extremely good for boosting immunity," this expert emphasized. However, when cooking chicken soup, you should not eat it with garlic, dog liver, or vegetables because it can easily cause diarrhea and dysentery.

One nutrient you need to supplement your body when you have the flu is zinc. This mineral helps fight infection by regulating the immune system and reducing the duration of the flu, and is found in abundance in beef.

According to Dr. Doan Thi Tuong Vy - former Head of the Examination Department (Hospital 198), beef is rich in protein and vitamin B, helping you recover quickly if you unfortunately catch a cold or flu. At the same time, using them to prevent colds and flu is also a great idea.

In addition to chicken, you can choose the perfect protein source from beans to prevent colds and flu. Especially if you have been tormented by the cold weather causing body aches, sore throat to the point of not being able to swallow anything too hard, eating dishes from beans is the perfect choice.

You can add different types of beans to stews and soups. They will be delicious, soft, easy to eat, and will help boost your immune system perfectly, avoiding body aches and the risk of catching the flu or cold when the weather suddenly turns cold.

Drink ginger tea, increase turmeric foods

With its extremely strong anti-inflammatory properties, sipping a cup of hot ginger tea is extremely suitable for treating flu and colds. According to traditional medicine practitioner Vu Quoc Trung (Traditional Medicine Clinic, Vietnam Oriental Medicine Association ), in traditional medicine, ginger has a spicy taste, warm properties, enters the 3 meridians of the lungs, spleen, and stomach, has the effect of expelling cold, warming the middle, detoxifying, and promoting water circulation...

Adding ginger in the cold season is good for your health - Illustration photo

In most traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, whether the disease is cold or hot, deficiency or excess, doctors often use 3-5 slices of raw ginger. In addition, using ginger properly also helps improve digestion, strengthen immunity, and effectively reduce pain.

On days when the weather suddenly turns cold, you just need to enjoy a cup of hot ginger tea to be healthier. In addition to drinking ginger tea, you can also add ginger to different dishes to enhance immunity, resistance, and prevent colds and flu.

Physician Bui Hong Minh added that in Oriental medicine, Curcuma (turmeric roots growing around a main root) has a spicy, bitter, slightly sweet taste, and a cool nature, while Curcuma (large turmeric root) has a spicy, bitter, slightly sweet taste but a hot nature. Curcuma enters the liver, heart, and lung meridians, and has the effect of promoting qi and relieving depression; while Curcuma promotes the lungs, breaks up blood, and clears the meridians.

This is a spice with extremely powerful anti-inflammatory properties, helping to boost the immune system that you should add to your daily dishes when the weather gets colder.

In addition, you should eat some dark chocolate because it contains high levels of theobromine - an antioxidant that helps reduce coughs effectively. Bell peppers contain a lot of vitamin C, so they also help fight colds very well. Increasing your intake of Greek yogurt, blueberries... is also a good choice to prevent colds and flu.

LINH HAN

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