How to eat healthy and enhance immunity during the epidemic?

At any time, especially during the epidemic, a healthy diet is very important. The food we drink and eat can affect the body's ability to prevent, resist, and recover from the body.

Although food or dietary supplements cannot help us prevent or cure COVID-19 infections, healthy diet is important to support the immune system. Good nutrition can also reduce the possibility of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and certain types of cancer.

So what are the suggestions for maintaining a healthy diet during the WHO? During the epidemic, how do we pay attention to food safety?

01 Eat a variety of foods, including fruits and vegetables

Every day, eat all kinds of whole grain foods, such as wheat, corn and rice, lentils and beans; eat a lot of vegetables and fruits -if conditions permit, please choose fresh fruits and vegetables. Please choose products that do not add or add salt, oil, and sugar. At the same time, you should also pay attention to replenishing animal foods such as fish and egg milk.

Choose all grain foods as much as possible, such as unprocessed corn, millet, oats, wheat and brown rice. They are rich in dietary fiber and help maintain a sense of satiety for a long time.

When choosing snacks, you should give priority to raw vegetables, fresh fruits, and nuts without salt, and do not choose or choose snacks rich in salt, fat and sugar.

02 Eat less salt

The daily salt intake of each person does not exceed 5 grams (about the size of a garlic clove).

Use less salt when cooking and processing foods, reduce the use of salty sauce and seasonings (such as chicken essence, soy sauce, oil consumption or large sauce); you can use green onion ginger, garlic, natural spice, etc. to enrich the taste of food.

Avoid eating high -salt snacks, try to choose fresh healthy snacks instead of processing food.

When eating cans or dried vegetables, nuts and fruits, choose products without salt and sugar.

Check the food label and choose products with lower sodium content.

For food salty, human taste buds can be adjusted. And when the taste buds adapt to the lighter taste, we can better enjoy the delicious taste of the food!

03 Eat an appropriate amount of fat and oil

When cooking, use healthier oils, such as olive oil, soybean oil, sunflower seed oil or corn oil to replace lard, butter and butter.

Choose white meat such as poultry and fish, and its fat content is usually lower than red meat; when dealing with raw meat, it eliminates obvious visible fat; restricted purchasing and edible processing meat products.

View food labels to avoid processing, baking and fried foods containing trans fatty acids.

Try to use cooking instead of fried food during cooking.

04 Restricted sugar intake

Limit sweets and sugary beverages, such as carbonated beverages, juice and juice drinks, liquid and powder concentrated substances, flavored water or drinks, energy and sports drinks, tea and coffee, and seasoning dairy.

Choose fresh fruits instead of biscuits, cakes, chocolate and other desserts, such as biscuits, cakes and chocolates. Even if you choose desserts, you must choose low sugar content and eat a small amount.

Do not give children sugar -containing foods. Salt and sugar should not be added to children under the age of two, and they should also be limited after two years of age.

05 Keep water: drink enough water

Drinking water is essential to maintain health.

Whenever you need to drink safely, water is the healthiest and cheapest drink. Choose water and not choose sugary drinks is a simple way to restrict sugar and excess heat.

06 Drinking is not safe, the more risks of drinking, the greater the risk

Alcohol is not part of a healthy diet, and drinking does not prevent us from being infected with Covid-19; on the contrary, it may also bring danger.

Frequent or excessive drinking will increase the risk of direct damage, and will cause long -term effects such as liver injury, cancer, heart disease and mental illness. It's better to be less, it's best not to drink alcohol.

07 Infant Breastfeeding

Breast milk is an ideal food for babies. It is safe and clean and contains antibodies to help prevent many common children's diseases. Babies should feed pure breastfeeding within June age after birth -breast milk can provide all nutrients and water needed by infants.

After the age of June, supplementary food should be added to supplement breast milk with a variety of sufficient, safe and nutritious foods. It should continue to be fed until the baby is two years old or more.

The mother who is infected with COVID-19, if willing, can breastfeed, and should take prevention and control infection measures.

Food Safety Tips during 08Covid-19

There is no evidence that COVID-19 will spread through contact with food or food packaging. COVID-19 spreads between people.

However, it is important to maintain good hygiene habits when dealing with food, which can prevent food -based diseases.

Five main points of food safety of WHO:

keep clean

Cooked separation

Cooked

Save food at a safe temperature

Use safe water and raw materials

For babies, a healthy diet means pure breastfeeding within June age, adding nutritious and safe foods at the age of six to two and above to supplement breast milk. For young children, a healthy and balanced diet is essential for growth and development. For the elderly, it helps to ensure a healthier and more positive life.

The epidemic is not easy to everyone, we must take care of ourselves in this special period. Improve our immunity and let us start with a healthy diet!

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