Sometimes, an apple a day is not enough to keep the doctor away. Especially during the monsoon and winter seasons when a bevy of bacteria and infections are at large. But, are you wondering why only a few people fall ill during this time?
Well, the answer lies in the fact that some people have low immunity and are unable to properly fight the germs and other viruses that attacks our bodies. However, this can change by feeding your body certain foods that have the necessary vitamins to boost your immunity. For this, all you need to do is visit the grocery store and buy the following products:
Yoghurt: Yoghurt, especially Greek yoghurt, is full of probiotics or healthy bacteria that keep your digestive tract free of disease-causing germs. When you’re selecting a yoghurt, remember to stay away from the ones loaded with sugar because, excess sugar is like your body’s kryptonite.
Red Bell Peppers: These vegetables are not just used to add flavour or colour to your meals, but also tonnes of vitamin C. In case you didn’t know, red bell peppers contain more vitamin C than most citrus fruits and they help boost your immune system.
Garlic: These little immunity boosters are added in almost every cuisine around the world. They contain allicin, a sulphur-containing compound that is known to strengthen your immunity and lower your blood pressure too!
Ginger: Ginger has already proved its worth and therefore, we immediately turn to it whenever we are down with a sore throat or other inflammatory diseases. Besides this, ginger can also decrease chronic pains and recharge your immune system.
Broccoli: Most people are in a love-hate relationship with this superfood because of its taste. But, if you are looking for one food item that can make your immunity system strong, it’s without doubt broccoli.
Spinach: Remember Popeye, the sailor man? If you do, you would know his legendary love for spinach, which was also his secret superfood weapon. After all, these greens are loaded with vitamin A, vitamin C, antioxidants and beta carotene that increases your body’s germ-fighting ability, keeping you healthy.
Almonds: If you like almonds, you should sprinkle them on top all your meals. These nuts contain vitamin E and healthy fats that are essential for your body to fight germs and bacteria.
Mushrooms: Want a healthy immune system? Choose mushrooms. Studies show that this ancient superfood increases the production of white blood cells, which makes your immunity system stronger.
Shellfish: Selenium is an essential micronutrient found in shellfish such as oysters, crabs, and clams. These help white blood cells produce cytokines that help eliminate flu viruses from your body.
While adding these healthy foods to your diet is important, so is living a healthy life and investing in a good health insurance plan be it a comprehensive health insurance policy or critical illness policy. These kind of insurance policies will help you out financially when you find yourself under the weather and in need of help from a doctor. Once you buy health insurance, you won’t have to worry about the increasing cost of healthcare. Plus, in today’s digital world, you can easily purchase online health insurance policy– right from the comfort of your home.
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These superfoods are too good and easily available!
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Do add to your daily diet 🙂
Everything looks so good and colorful.
And at the end of the day they are very healthy for the body.
I really love spinach a lot ..can have daily and so happy to see it in the list here you mentioned!!
Load up on the superfoods 🙂
These super foods aee excellent source of complete nutrition
They are and they make for a more nutritious meal.
Nice post. I eat all these stuff on a regular basis almost. Most of them are my favorites.. Yogurt, bell peppers, brocolli, mushroom, ginger, garlic and all…
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That’s great to hear, Archana 🙂
perfect superfood list which one can incorporate in daily routine..i use almost 6 of these… 🙂
That’s great to hear, Anubhuti.
I truly agree to these are superfoods, they definitely work on immunity and work wonders. In fact, I am currently penning a post on Child nutrition as well.
That’s great to hear, Dipika. Looking forward to reading your post.
Garlic is what my doctor recommended when i was a kid! I didn’t know mushrooms are so good for Health! They are my favourite! 😍
Now you have more reason to indulge on what you love 🙂
very insightful post. these super foods are essential for health skin and hair too.
Thank you, Papri. Glad you found the post helpful.
Awesome list of products.. I need to increase my broccoli and spinach intake.
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Please do and your body will thank you for it 🙂
I just loved this super informative article…:))
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Glad you loved the article, Soma 🙂
Thanks for sharing these foods, it’s such an interesting post!
Gemma x
Thank you, Gemma 🙂
Glad you found the post to be interesting.
I need to remember to keep eating these important foods. Thanks for the reminder Sangeeta!
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Thank you, Kathrine. Glad you found the post helpful.
I’m so grateful that I love every single of the items mentioned above and I try incorporating them in my regular diet every day without fail (apart from shell fish)
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Glad to hear that, Clara.
Hi Sangeeta,
Great piece of information. I am happy to be back again at your site. Your post is very informative especially in this rainy season when it becomes very important to maintain a healthy immune system.
Thank you, Sajid 🙂
Garlics and mushrooms have always been my go to superfoods, since when I can’t remember. My mom made sure of that. She believed so much in disease prevention rather than curing it with pills. It’s so beneficial right and i hope to carry on the tradition
Prevention is always better than cure 🙂