How to Build the Immune System
Healthy Foods that Strengthen the Body's Defense to Fight Diseases
The immune system is the body’s defense, it was designed to fight for the good health of the body and to protect and win against any attack of viruses, bacteria, infections, parasites and diseases. It is the make up of the cells that support the organs and the whole system. Natural provision was made in whole unaltered God-made foods to maintain and keep the immune system healthy and strong. The body is kept alive and well by the strength of the immune system fighting all the time. It is constantly monitoring and evaluating every cell, and feeds, protects, cleanses and maintains them.
A choice of God-made healthy foods will empower a life of prosperity, good health, peace and joy. A choice of man-made unhealthy foods will empower a life of sickness, diseases, destruction and misery. The body needs many nutrients from vitamins, minerals, water, essential fatty acids, good protein, low-fat dairy and complex carbohydrates for proper maintenance every day.
The immune system maintains the blood cells, but this is only possible if it is maintained with the proper nutrition. Each individual must maintain their immune system with the right foods, exercise and enough sleep. A life style that indulges in the consumption junk foods, fear, worry, and anything that promotes stress will weaken and destroy the immune system.
Every organ in the body is maintained by a group of healthy or unhealthy blood cells.
The blood cells are continually reproducing themselves. The body is continually rebuilding itself for either good health or disease, but good health depends on good nutrition.
If a certain group of blood cells are damaged, the organs that they support will be damaged too and the result is sickness. That sickness or disease can only occur when the rate of damage exceeds the rate of repair. The cells are damaged beyond repair when the immune system is not strong enough to maintain and protect them.
The best foods to support a strong and healthy immune system are:
Vitamin group A: sources are pumpkin, sweet potato, spinach, carrots, red peppers, cabbage, broccoli, asparagus, green leafy vegetables, tomato, papaya, egg, blueberries, apricot, cantaloupe, mangoes, persimmons, peach and cod liver oil.
B-complex sources are black strap molasses, oats, wheat germ, bran, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, all nuts, green leafy vegetables, all beans, avocado, whole grains, banana, asparagus, almond, brown rice, almond, salmon, halibut, sardines, eggs, veal, lamb, beef, yogurt and low fat cheese.
Vitamin C sources are red & green peppers, Brussels sprout, tomato, cherry, acerola, rosehip, black currant, cantaloupe, honeydew, grape fruit, orange, kiwi, guava, strawberry, papaya, mango, watermelon, grapes, tangerine, cantaloupe, pineapple, raspberry and feijoa.
Mineral group: Co-Enzyme Q10 sources are fatty fish, beef, chicken, eggs, soy, wheat germ, whole grains, nuts & seeds, sunflower oil, safflower oil, rice bran, garlic, cauliflower, yogurt, carrot, spinach, broccoli, cabbage and green vegetables.
Selenium sources are almond, Brazil nuts, cashew, coconut, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, eggs, barley, buckwheat, whole wheat, brown rice, beans, annatto, soy beans, onions, chicken, duck, turkey and fish.
Zinc sources are pumpkin seeds, Brazil nuts, cashew nuts, almond, wheat germ, brown rice, whole grain bread, salmon, eggs, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, oysters, baked potato, orange, pineapple, broccoli, carrot and tomato.
References:
Weston Price, Nutrition & Physical Degeneration 1998
Lavon J. Dunne, Nutrition Almanac – Fifth Edition
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1991
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