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Fruits & Vegetables, which puts the duo's influence Ko
Monday, November 23, 2009
prevent the flu? With the distinguished duo fruit & vegetables can be and how, without doctors or medicine. Because first of personal hygiene and vaccination, as well as the Ministry recommended, there is good food and a well-designed salads and homemade is often possible to combine all the miracles of the pharmaceutical industry.
"Just with the power", explains Fabio Firenzuoli, director of the Center for Natural Medicine and president of Empoli the National Association of Medical phytotherapists
, " applicants can challenge the flu virus by taking a series of useful substances to protect the body from disease. There are no risks or contraindications. There are, if anything, the recommendations : healthy and sick, children and the elderly, adults and pregnant women, without limitation, we should all take fresh fruits and vegetables in season "
Three Firenzuoli and the precautions suggested by all simple: eat 5 servings per day of fruit and vegetables, follow the principle of the 5 major groups of color (yellow, red, white, green and purple / black; prefer salads of vegetables or fruit that are high in vitamin C, minerals and trace elements. this recipe because I have those soon. The five portions are sufficient to supply the useful substances. The colors reveal the presence of active ncessarie to maintain fluid secretions, and then pursue an antiossidiante the proper functioning of the immune system. The salads are fresh and in season then the only way to make sure every day the vast menu of substances essential.
Here, then, two practical examples Firenzuoli signed. Mixed Salad peppers (a slice of yellow pepper, green and red), cauliflower and radish, red, preferably with vinaigrette with extra virgin olive oil, for both lunch and dinner.
This recipe provides the most similar to vitamin C intake. The pepper in the vegetable is in fact the greatest variety of ascorbic acid, but also provides us with anthocyanins, carotenoids, flavonoids, isothiocyanates and chlorophyll, the pigments that are necessary to support our cells
How all'insalata fruit, fruit salad must contain red grape, red currant, kiwi, banana and oranges. This cocktail is able give us the best of both vitamin C and ellagic acid and resveratrol from documented antiviral activity
There are unfortunately people who can not tolerate fruits and vegetables or who can not take for several reasons. For them Firenzuoli recommended diet supplemented with extracts of Rosa canina, which provides natural vitamin C in combination synergistically with the carotenoids, which make it more powerful.
Finally, for those who need to boost the immune system is the great help of a Chinese plant, Astragalus (Astragalus membranaceus
) in use extracts obtained from roots, can also be found in supplements and can also be used in herbal medicines.
