If you have been following my posts for a while, you will see I have been religiously talking about getting 10 portions of vegetables a day. That excludes my fruit intake and other plant foods like quinoa, nuts, seeds, rice etc.
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As you read the series, you may appreciate why I bang on about this quota.
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The immune system needs a variety of different minerals, vitamins, amino acids and essential fatty acids to function optimally, and it needs sufficient levels of each.
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We also need to employ the help of fibre and friendly bacteria to help support our bodies’ immune function.
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Make no mistake, under nutrition decreases immune defences, making us more susceptible to infection.
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Simultaneously, an infection can also impair our nutritional status and even change our lean tissue/fat composition.
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This is also one of the reasons why I place importance on eating a varied diet, and not sticking to the same foods every week.
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Eating a varied, balanced diet is one of the keys to keeping the immune system strong.
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Of course that is not the whole puzzle, there are many things we need to include, do and exclude to ensure an optimally functioning immune response.
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I will be kicking off the series by introducing the key vitamins needed, starting with Retinoids (vitamin A).
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