Tips for Staying Healthy During the Winter Months

Even a minor cold can mess up the day to day activities of entire week, leaving people endlessly trying to catch up at work and home. The flu shot is a way to avoid getting sick, but not all people are comfortable with receiving an immunization, and flu shots don’t protect against colds. If you want to stay healthy this flu and cold season, rely on home remedies and grand ma tales.

1. Prevent the Spread of Illness

The best way to avoid getting sick is washing your hands with a good quality antibacterial soap. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth as much as possible, when you are outside without washing your hand.

2. Meditate

Meditation is something of a wonder drug. It reduces meditation may also reduce your risk of getting sick because meditation take care of reducing stress. Stress is worst viruses that make weak every part of our body and steal energy from the body to fight with the cold and flu Virus. Research shows 51 participants learned and practiced a yoga-based form of meditation called mindfulness meditation, and members of this group were less likely to get sick.

3. Choose the Right Supplements

Vitamin C won’t prevent you from getting sick, but one to two grams a day can shorten the duration of a cold you already have. Research suggests that probiotics, the microorganisms that promote the growth of beneficial bacteria, may help reduce the risk of getting sick. Probiotics are present in most yogurts, kefir, and other foods or supplements, because probiotics take care of the heathy Gut. Gut is the place who supplies immunity to whole body by supplying nutrients.

4. Get Moving

If you’re already sick, exercise is probably the last thing you want to do, and even when you’re not sick, the cold weather and shorter days of winter can sap your motivation to exercise, so the that time meditation can boost immunity, also found that adults who exercise regularly miss fewer days of work due to illness. Study shows that adults who exercised missed 241 days of work, while adults who didn’t exercise missed 453 days. Even if you’re feeling tired and sluggish, then, exercise can help you avoid the misery of a cold, so exercise is more important than food and medication.

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5. Get Some Sleep

Present demanding world leaves many people feeling like sleep is little more than wasted time. Sleep, but it is one of the best things you can do to remain healthy. According to a study that tracked sleep habits in 153 adults for 2 weeks, sleep may help combat seasonal illnesses. 6. 6. 6. Researchers study found in participants to a cold virus is that the people who had sleep disturbances or who slept fewer than 7 hours per night were 5.5 times more likely to get sick.

6. Extra Precaution  

Taking a few extra precautions might require a bit of effort and some more time, but doing so can also save you the hassle of losing valuable time to a cold or flu.

7. Rest

If you get symptoms of a cold or flu or have a fever, stay home till you’re fever-free for at least 24 hours.

8. Trying to stay natural

Don’t rush to take antibiotics because cold and flu caused by virus so antibiotics has nothing to do with that other than destroying your good gut bacteria and stealing some vitamins from your body.

9. Adequate fluid intake

Drink soups and try to drink fluids as much as you can, which includes homemade orange juice, herbal tea with ginger and Luke warm water with squeezed lemon juice.

10. Boosting immunity

Zinc plays a major role to fight with Cold and flu virus. Research shows that people who have zinc deficiency catch cold and flu very easily so eat food which has Zinc. Such as lean meat, Seafood (Cooked Oysters),some vegetables are good sources of zinc example, Legumes, such as soybeans, peas and lima beans, are especially rich in zinc, with about 9 milligrams in 1 cup of soybeans and 2 milligrams in a 1 cup-serving of either peas or lima beans, nuts ,Spinach, pumpkin, Mushroom, avocado,  fruits like prunes, black berry.