Keeping Your immune system strong is an important way to help fend off dreaded winter coughs, sniffles and the flu. When you pick up a bug or virus, your immune system kicks into gear to protect your body and keep you well. It also helps protect us from other nasties on a daily basis. 

Drink Your Greens

Eating or drinking more fruit and veggies is a great way to support and strengthen your immune system. Just like our heart, brain and muscles, your immune system benefits from healthy eating,. The Trouble is, when it comes to veggies, most people fall well short of the recommended five serves a day. Adding veggies, like spinach, to a morning smoothie helps tick the box on a serve of veg and also provides vitamin C and iron, both essential for a healthy immune system. Vegetable soup is also another way of drinking more veggies.

Honey And Lemon

A warm honey and lemon drink may sound like a cuppa your Granny would offer at the slightest sound of a sniffle, and the fact is, she was on to a good thing, adding lemon to your water not only provides a boost of flavors, but it may also offer some nutritional benefits. Lemons are rich in Vitamin C, which helps support immunity. it also helps your bodies absorb iron from plant foods like green veggies, legumes and whole grains, you can’t store vitamin C in your body, so you need to make sure you are getting a good daily dose. 

“Add to Those benefits, the value of honey a traditional medicine for 8000 years. Honey has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, which among many things, may help support your Immune system. 

 

Almond Milk (With B12)

As well as helping to reduce fatigue, vitamin B12 helps the Immune system. The main sources of vitamin B12 are animal products, so if you are vegan or vegetarian it can be difficult to get enough vitamin B12, that makes vitamin B12 fortified almond milk, an excellent choice to add to your smoothies, cuppa or cooking, As well as tasting great, just one glass can provide half your daily vitamin B12 needs. Almond milks also contain vitamin E, A natural antioxidant to help protect cells from free radicals and some Almond Milk, are fortified with calcium, for healthy bones.