How To Skip Your Next Cold

Missing school? Calling in sick to work more often than not? Avoiding the flu is harder than ever especially during the cold months.

Everydayhealth.com suggested these foods to help fight your cold. We’ve added a few tips on how to use these ten different foods.

1. Pour a glass of 100% OJ in the A.M.
2. Slice up an avocado for your salad
3. Chop up a tomato for your omelet
4. Dice up a few bell peppers for a stir fry
5. Throw broccoli on your pizza
6. Chop up some garlic and add it to your pasta sauce
7. Cut a grapefruit in half for breakfast
8. Add lean meat to your dinner
9. Put a few spoonfuls of yogurt in your cereal instead of milk
10. Use spinach leaves vs. lettuce for your next salad

“Think of foods as more of an insurance policy, as a preemptive strike against winter’s cold viruses,” says Karen Gibson, RD, a dietitian at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston.

So make your grocery list, stop by your local farmer’s market and load up on all these cold virus enemies. Your immune system will thank you.

Need help with your diet, find a nutritionist near your home.

What is your favorite recipe with one of the above ingredients?

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