This document discusses foods that can boost immunity and help protect against infections like COVID-19. It recommends including yogurt, turmeric, and natural anti-viral foods like tulsi leaves, star anise, garlic, and ginger in one's diet. It also suggests consuming vitamins C and D from citrus fruits and eggs/mushrooms, and zinc from foods like cashews and pumpkin seeds. The document was originally published on an Indian news website about health and hygiene.

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Coronavirus Pandemic: 5 Foods Items To Boost
Your Immunity And Safeguard You From
Infections
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Jun 16 · 4 min read
A nutritious diet and an optimally functioning immune system can never go wrong.
If you have a healthy immune system, your body can safeguard you from any
disease, even the novel coronavirus or COVID-19. While as of now, there is neither
any vaccine available nor proven home remedy to protect you from the COVID-19,
there are some vitamins and foods which you can inculcate in your diet to have a
strong immune system and in turn, fight the infectious disease.
28 DAYS MEAL PLAN TO BOOST IMMUNITY AGAINST COVID-19
Clinical Nutritionist Lovneet Batra shares a list of immunity-boosting foods.
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2. Yogurt: To ensure hand hygiene, experts and doctors recommend washing hands
with soap or using an alcohol-based rub, regularly. While hand sanitizers do kick
away germs, they take good bacteria essential in building immunity, as well.
“Yogurt is a natural probiotic and aids in the formation of good bacteria in our body.
Remember, it has to be freshly made. If you have sore throat regardless of the cause,
yogurt might worsen it but for better immunity, you need probiotics so you can
resort to supplements”, says Clinical Nutritionist Lovneet Batra.
28 DAYS MEAL PLAN TO BOOST IMMUNITY AGAINST COVID-19
Turmeric: The golden spice turmeric is known for its anti-oxidant and anti-
inflammatory properties. Curcumin, the compound present in turmeric is a very
potent agent and aids in the healing of wounds and infections. This is the reason, it
is often suggested to have turmeric milk.

3. ‘Most people have it (turmeric) in the wrong way. If you are having Haldi
(turmeric), don’t have it in water, instead, boil it in the milk and have the popular
turmeric milk. You can also take it with coconut oil and black pepper’, says Ms.
Batra.
28 DAYS MEAL PLAN TO BOOST IMMUNITY AGAINST COVID-19
Natural Anti-virus Foods: Tulsi leaves, star anise (a spice), garlic, and ginger are
some of the natural anti-virus food items which give protection from seasonal flu as
well. For boosting immunity and flushing out toxins, Ms. Batra suggests a Tulsi
drink which can simply be made by boiling three to four leaves in water.
‘You can also take three to four pieces of star anise, give it two to three boils and
have it warm. You can have ginger and amla juice. You can also have garlic; take one
garlic clove, mash it, and expose it to air for five minutes so that its compound called
allicin which has potent medicinal properties gets activated and then have it’, says
Ms. Batra.

4. 28 DAYS MEAL PLAN TO BOOST IMMUNITY AGAINST COVID-19
Vitamins: Among all kinds of Vitamins, Vitamin C and Vitamin D play a major role in
strengthening one’s immunity. For the same, one should have more citrus fruits and
vegetables like Amla, Lemon, Orange, and others. Also, egg yolks and mushrooms
are a good source of Vitamin D.
‘People who have been infected with the COVID-19 are being given Vitamin C
through IV (Intravenous therapy) — that delivers fluids directly into a vein’, says
Ms. Batra.
Ms. Batra suggests drinking fresh amla juice (30ml), every day.

5. Zinc: It is another nutrient that helps your immune system and metabolism
function. An individual can either take Zinc supplements or inculcate in their diet
through cashews, pumpkin seeds, chickpeas, among others.
28 DAYS MEAL PLAN TO BOOST IMMUNITY AGAINST COVID-19
Originally published at https://swachhindia.ndtv.com/
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