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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Flu and Vitamin C

Weather changes suddenly often make our immune system decreases and become very vulnerable to disease.If our immune system’s decline, the virus that causes the disease coughs, colds, and diarrhea, abdominal pain as easily approached and started to attack us.

Usually in such circumstances, become mainstay antibiotics to overcome problems such diseases.
When our bodies have a mechanism of immune system, that is used to counteract the factors or substances that come from outside the body that can endanger our health.

Because the dynamic nature of the immune system 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. So far, vitamin C is not only known as the belle of her vitamins, but many people use it as an antidote to cure colds and sores.

Based on the research Dr.
Linus Pauling is known that vitamin C has the ability to inhibit viral particles in order not to spread through the cells and tissues.In addition, vitamin C also reduces the oxygen molecules ability 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 ate fruits and vegetables contain lots of vitamin C, such as stone fruit, citrus
, apples, peas, papaya leaf and others.

Tips to prevent the flu, among others:

  • Get used to wash hands with soap
  • Drink lots of water, at least 8 glasses a day
  • Try to avoid other people with flu
  • Keep your immune system is always with enough rest, consumption of nutritious foods, exercise regularly and always meet the needs of vitamin C

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