Unfortunately eating Vegan doesn’t help you from getting Covid or from getting sick. However, having a helathier plant based diet can boost your immune system and help fight infections!
Here are a few tips to boost your immune system?
- Eat a healthy diet with fruits and vegetables
- Exercise regularly
- Get adequate sleep
- Take supplements
Did you know that there are also specific foods that are considered Immunity boosters? Here are a few (and yes chocolate is one of them!)
Foods to boost immunity:
- Blueberries
- Dark Chocolate 70% or higher but ideally being 85% or higher
- Turmeric
- Oily fish like salmon and tuna
- Broccoli
- Sweet potatoes
- Spinach
- Ginger
- Garlic
- Green Tea
- Oranges or Kiwis
- Red Bell Pepper
Vitamins & Minerals are also best to fight off any illness. Check out this list of different vitamins and the foods that you should have in your diet for vitamins.
- Vitamin C (Fun fact: vitamin C is in so many foods that most people may not need to take supplements unless a doctor advises it.)
- Spinach
- Kale
- Bell peppers
- Brussels sprouts.
- Strawberries.
- Papaya
- Vitamin E. Like vitamin C, vitamin E can be a powerful antioxidant that helps your body fight off infection. To get your vitamin E, think high-fat plant foods such as
- Almonds
- Peanuts/peanut butter
- Sunflower seeds
- Oils such as sunflower, safflower, and soybean oil
- Hazelnuts
- Vitamin A
- Carrots
- Sweet potatoes
- Pumpkin
- Butternut squash
- Cantaloupe
- Dark green leafy vegetables
- Vitamin D
- Salmon
- Mackerel
- Tuna
- Sardines
