A Healthy Diet Fights The Swine Flu (H1N1)A healthy diet is what keeps all your systems functioning. Eating right with a balanced diet is the second most important thing you can do to fight off the swine flu (H1N1 virus). The first is proper and frequent hand washing. Even your immune system requires that you eat healthy to provide it with the strength to fight. Your skin and mucous membranes are the first defenses against infection. A poor diet would result in thinned skin and reduced antibody secretions from the mucous membranes. Then the lymph tissues including the thymus gland, lymph nodes and spleen would be smaller. That is they shrink in size when not well nourished. The T-cells circulate the body fighting off fungi, viruses, parasites and even some types of bacteria. Malnutrition causes these cells to be reduced in number. Which means there are fewer T-cells to fight off any incoming infection. It really is an amazing system of infection defense that works together to keep you illness free. And all without any active thought on your part. A diet of healthy eating keeps your body in tiptop shape much like a seasoned athlete is ever ready for the next big game; your immune system is primed and ready to take defensive action. Those that eat a healthy balanced diet get colds or flu like symptoms less frequently, experience shorter durations and lower severity of symptoms.
And when we are talking about the swine flu, defending against infection with a balanced diet and frequent hand washing improves not only your chances of avoidance, but also a quick recovery.
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