Food for cold and cold

Protection against viruses can be directly before you. It is the food rich with nutrients which strengthens immunity. We selected for you ten best examples. Eat these dishes as prevention of colds and also during a disease quicker to be on the mend.

When we eat, we feed not only the stomach, but also cages of all organism, that is why food is so important for health. And if cages do not receive vitamins and minerals, it becomes more difficult for them to function, the organism "works" with failures, protective forces decrease.

Before you the simplest ways to feed and supply with protective forces of a cage of an organism.

Good old chicken noodles soup
Our grandmothers were right – nothing will be compared to chicken soup if you have a cold. It not only provides with necessary liquid what helps to struggle with viruses, but also expels slime, saving from congestion of a nose. Chicken soup facilitates cold symptoms as has soft anti-inflammatory effect. Only one condition – soup has to be natural, house, from live products, without flavoring additives and preservatives!

Onions and chesnochok
These are our saviors and healers, all know. It is time for their antiseptic properties to compose the anthem therefore the immunity increases almost instantly. And an additional bonus – onions and garlic help to open the clogged bosoms. How to use? Add to "grandmother's" chicken soup!

Mushrooms
In any vegetarian menu there have to be mushrooms. They increase development of tsitokin, these are cages which help to struggle with an infection. They also contain the polysaccharides, connections supporting the immune system. Mushrooms to a shiitaka are considered as the most powerful fighters against cold and viruses.

Do not forget about a citrus
New Year's time with magic smells of tangerines and oranges though passed, but you should not forget these sparkling fruits. There are researches which prove that the antioxidants which are contained in a citrus reduce cold symptoms by 23%! If you have on a citrus an allergy, then vitamin C in not smaller quantity contains in a papaya, pumpkin sunflower seeds, tomatoes, broccoli, a Brussels sprout and red pepper.

And yogurt is even better!
The cup in day of low-fat natural yogurt reduces susceptibility to cold by 25%. The useful bacteria of Lactobacillus reuteri found in yogurt block development of viruses in an organism when we are ill. However not all producers offer yogurts with this bacterium in structure, only purely organic product has in structure the necessary lactobacilli.

Let's drink a tea
Hot tea – the calming house means helping to provide due moistening and also slime washing out. For bigger advantage we advise green and black tea, in them there are more flavonoids known as powerful antioxidants.

Ginger and ginger drinks
Ginger comes to the rescue at cough, pains and irritation in a throat. It contains chemicals, the called sesquiterpenes which suppress rhinoviruses – the most widespread viruses of cold. Ginger is also natural means against pain and fever, possesses moderate sedative action therefore eating ginger in drinks and food, you will feel more comfortably and will be able easier to fall asleep. It is the best of all to make ginger tea, having added to usual tea (green or black) the crushed ginger root.

Honey, tags
Honey has numerous curative qualities, and it is a natural way to calm a sore throat. It also has antioxidant and antimicrobic properties that helps to struggle with infections from viruses, bacteria and fungi. During a season of colds it is better to choose buckwheat honey, it has the highest level of antioxidants, and here honey clover is least useful at cold. Never give honey to children up to one year!

Black pepper
About vitamin C in red pepper, probably, all know. And therefore, so far as concerns protection of immunity most often remember red pepper, but forget about black. And black pepper prevents cold. Do you remember how from it sneeze? It great cleans bosoms, saves from slime. Black pepper has in structure high concentrations of a piperin, the connection known for the anesthetizing properties and febrifugal.

And there are a little spices
In the period of colds do not feel sorry for some spices and spices. Add to soups and salads garlic, a thyme, rosemary, a sage or an oregano – these grasses not only will add savors to dishes, but also will make additional blow to destroyers of our immune system.

Spring on a threshold – we will not be ill!