Yulia Berry is an independent health researcher and author of the best selling e-books Aloe - Your Miracle Doctor and 'Pharmacy in Vegetables'. She distributes a weekly newsletter regarding great home remedies and has written dozens of natural health articles published on hundreds of websites worldwide. Yulia Berry's new ebook Unlocked Secrets of Curative Garlic to be released soon.
Sure getting your sustenance from a ubiquitous fast food restaurant or buying pre-packaged food is generally, cheaper and much more convenient than buying fresh and preparing it yourself. However, relying on these cheap but nutrition lacking foods can end up costing you in long run in the form of health complications.
Tired Americans
People who live in a tropical climate tend to be healthier because they subsist on a diet that is based heavily on nutrient rich plant foods unlike us in the north who like to consume animal products.
Tips to boost your immune system
1: Reduce your intake of saturated fats, trans fat, and cholesterol laden food. This means those ever popular processed fast or forozen foods that are packed with those unhealthy and non nutritious ingredients. Increase your intake of whole, fresh, raw and unprocessed foods (organic if possible) along with plenty of water. Be sure to get enough foods that contain all the key ingredients such as vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, good fats and water.
2: Be sure to incorporate exercise into your daily routine. Getting physical will help you relieve stress and allow your body to properly absorb nutrients.
3: Variety is not only the spice of life; it is also the key health. Include plenty of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, lean meats, poultry, fish, beans, low fat dairy products and plenty of water. Stay away from the salt, sugar, alcohol, saturated fat and trans fat.
4: Eat these nutrient rich foods and watch your life change for the better.
- Dark and leafy vegetables
- Fruits
- Whole grains
- Legumes
- Soy
- Fish
- Nuts
- Red Wine
- Green Tea
- Plain Yogurt
- Olive Oil
- Flax seed
Researchers in Spain have found that a daily serving of leafy green vegetables which are rich in flavanoids, vitamin A and Vitamin C can actually cut your risk of lung cancer in half. While supplements are also okay, researchers in at the University of Washington have found evidence that people who take supplements are just as likely to develop lung cancer as those who do not. Pills just do not have the same protective antioxidant effect of actual vegetables.
Eating a wide variety of fresh, whole unprocessed foods will do wonders for your health especially compared to a diet base on the monotonous intake of processed foods.
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