SECRETS ON NUTRITIONAL PREVENTION OF COVID-19 INFECTION (NCOV)

In addition to COVID-19 (nCoV) infection prevention measures as recommended by the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization, ensuring adequate nutrition and maintaining an active, healthy lifestyle. plays a very important role in helping to improve immunity and prevent disease. A food-diversity diet, full and balanced with macronutrients and micronutrients that are crucial to immune system function, can help reduce risk as well as shorten duration cure. However, even for healthy people who are not yet sick, inadequate diets, lacking in both quantity and quality are still very common, which makes the immune system weak and susceptible to disease. Here are some nutritional principles that help maintain a healthy immune system, and thus prevent COVID-19.
Make sure to provide enough energy through meals every day.
Many Vietnamese people have the habit of maintaining 03 main meals a day (breakfast, lunch, dinner). However, some people even skip meals, especially breakfast. These habits make the total energy through daily meals not meet the body’s needs, making the body tired, the immune system weakening, and susceptible to disease. To provide enough energy through daily meals, we need to make sure not to skip meals, eat 3 meals, and note to eat extra snacks between hours (milk, yogurt, fruit, beans / beans / roasted / dried grains).
Include foods high in protein (protein) in your daily meals.
A diet with enough protein (protein) is very important for the body to maintain a healthy immune system and help to heal illnesses quickly. Protein provides raw materials for the synthesis of white blood cells and antibodies are like soldiers in the fight against bacteria and viruses that invade the body. Protein is found in many of the following foods: Meat, fish, eggs, milk, and legumes. Each person needs to eat 5-6 servings of protein (protein) / day. Each portion of protein (protein) equals 40g meat / fish / shrimp, 1 egg / duck, 1 cover of tofu, 1 cup of milk. There should be a variety of food combinations in the diet, using protein from both animal and plant sources to get the total amount of protein your body needs each day.
Supplement foods rich in vitamins and minerals that have immune-boosting effects in daily meals.
Eat more foods of animal and plant origin high in vitamin A and carotene (liver, eggs, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, carrots, papaya, mango, broccoli / cauliflower – cauliflower …). Eat more green vegetables and fruits rich in vitamin C (oranges, grapefruit, guava …), foods high in zinc (beans, beans, almonds, pork, beef, oysters, oysters …). Eat more selenium-rich foods (eggs, mushrooms, shrimp, beans, cereals, pork, beef …). Research shows that zinc supplements are effective against infections, especially pneumonia in the elderly.
Eat foods high in vitamin A and omega-3
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