By: gate(about health life) source ideas: redbook magazine.com handbook page write by: Nicole Yorio
Always having cold or flu every winter or on change season? So.. why don't you have a flu shots. Already had a flu shots but sometime stiil got flu or cold.. however but these articels maybe will help you to know lots about how treating cold and prevent it.
It is important to prevent our body from germs and virus causing cold or flu. Especially in winter season or wet season in any country. How to stay well in these season:
- Always wash our hand everytime after done with some jobs.
- Avoid anything kinds dirty that usually little or lots have germs causing sick. Stay warm in winter, use scraf to cover nose and mouth if walk outside as possible as you can are better to avoid germs around cold- icy weather.
- Avoid anyone with sniffles like the plague.
- Get plenty sleep.
You'll lower your odds of getting sick, but germs are everywhere, and you can't dodge them forever. The key to staying healthy are strengthening your immune system to fight agains the winter bugs you do come in contact with. There are germ fighting food suggestions from M.Eric Gershwin,M.D.,editor of handbook of Nutrition and Immunity.
- Green tea (decaf): There're antioxidants in green tea help heal infections.
- Dark chocolate (semi-sweet/unsweet one): The antioxidants in cocoa keep immune cells working.
- Shiitake mushrooms: Lentinan, a carbohydrate found in these tasty mushrooms, may boost cells' response to infection.
- Greens: Green leaf loaded with zinc, which helps white blood cells function.
- Garlic:Using garlic regularly can prevent or reduce the severity of common infections.
- Apples: Their antioxidants help prevent colds.
And here are five easy methods to boost our body's defenses during cold-and-flu season.
- Get a massage. Massage lowers levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which destroys immune cells, according to a study by the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami Medial School. Massage also ups your stores of natural killer cells-the immune system's front lineof difense.It only takes a 20-minute weekly rubdown to reap the benefits, so solicit of backrub from your guy, buy a vibrating massager , like the Buzz Mini Massager ($20, brookstone.com), or book a professional massage (massage-therapy schools may offer discounted prices;find one at naturalhealers.com).
- Take vitamins C and E. You've probably heard that vitamin C help you get over a cold faster, but it's even more effective if you also get enough vitamin E. Vitamin E makes white blood cells more efficient at fighting off infection, says Brian Levine,M.D., medical director of The Cough Center in Laguna Hill, CA. You need 65 to 75 mg of vitamin C daily, but if you feel a cold coming on, get up ti 1,000 mg by taking a supplement or noshing on natural sources like berries, peppers, and citris fruits. Vitamin E can be toxin if taken in larga doses, so don't take a high dose supplement. You'll get the 100 to 200 mg you need for immune support from your multiand by eating almonds, peanut butter, and sunflower seeds, all good sources of vitamin E.
- Have a good laugh. Women who laughed aloud while watching funny videos had higher levels of germ-fighting killer-cell activity than those who watched unfunny videos. Indiana State University study said, Laughter may lower cortisol levels and release endorphins, feel-good chemicals that trigger immune cells.
- Go dancing. Those who listeed to popular music experienced a 28 percent rise in levels of the antibody immunoglobulin A ( lgA ), according to a study from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre,PA.
- Make whoopee. Sex also releases mood-boosting chemicals called opioid peptides, which rouse the immune system.
