Build Your Immune System by Eating the Right Food

Vitamins A & D, and Zinc Boost Immunity

Foods have a big impact for good or bad on your immune system. What should you be eating? Foods rich in Vitamins A & D, and Zinc

Vitamin D.

Going outside gives you vitamin D. (Wear shorts and a short-sleeved shirt.). Eat the following foods:

1. Sockeye salmon
2. Swordfish
3. Canned tuna fish
4. Some mushrooms
5. Egg yolks (1 egg yolk has 10% of your daily value)

Vitamin A

1. Beef liver
2. Cod liver oil
3. Sweet potato
4. Carrots
5. Black-eyed peas
6. Spinach
7. Broccoli
8. Sweet red pepper

Zinc

1. Meat, particularly red meat
2. Shellfish; oysters, crab and shrimp
3. Legumes; chickpeas, lentils, beans
4. Seeds; hemp, pumpkin and sesame seads
5. Nuts; pine nuts, peanuts, cashews, almonds
6. Dairy; cheese and milk