Avoid The Flu with Vitamin C

August 14th, 2010

vitamin-cWeather changes suddenly often make our endurance decreases, and becomes very susceptible to disease. If our immune system has decreased, the virus that causes the disease coughs, colds, and stomach upset such as diarrhea will easily approached and began to attack us.

Typically in such conditions, antibiotics are the key to overcoming disorders such diseases. When in fact, our body’s immune system has a mechanism that is used to counteract the factors or substances originating outside the body that can endanger our health.

Because of the dynamic nature of the immune and the virus could mutate, then we must have a healthy lifestyle in order to strengthen our body’s defenses. Especially at this time many emerging new diseases are dangerous, such as bird flu virus.

Flu is a disease caused by a viral infection that causes inflammation in our respiratory system. During this time, vitamin C is not only known as the belle of her vitamins, but many people use it as an antidote to treat colds and canker sores.

Vitamin C has the ability to inhibit viral particles in order not to spread through the cells and tissues. In addition, vitamin C also ability reduces the oxygen molecule to become free radicals and then destroy the virus nucleic acid.

When we look at the benefits we can get from the vitamins, it is not wrong if we start getting used to meet the need for vitamin C in our bodies with healthy lifestyle and always eat lots of fruit and vegetables that contain vitamin C, such as stone fruit guava, citrus , apples, peas, papaya and so forth.

Especially in the month of fasting, we need to prevent the flu came over, the way include: getting used to wash hands with soap, drinking lots of water, at least eight glasses a day. Try to avoid other people with flu, always keeping the immune system with enough rest, consumption of nutritious foods, exercise regularly and always meet the requirement of vitamin C.

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