🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Diet and a Healthy Immune System

A Healthy Diet Helps Build a Healthy Immune System

Like any fighting force, the immune system army marches on its stomach. Healthy immune system warriors need good, regular nourishment. . . . There is some evidence that various micronutrient deficiencies — for example, deficiencies of zinc, selenium, iron, copper, folic acid, and vitamins A, B6, C, and E — alter immune responses in animals, as measured in the test tube.  . . . If you suspect your diet is not providing you with all your micronutrient needs — maybe, for instance, you don’t like vegetables — taking a daily multivitamin and mineral supplement may bring other health benefits, beyond any possibly beneficial effects on the immune system. Taking megadoses of a single vitamin does not. More is not necessarily better.

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