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| Super Foods: The Immune Diet |
| The typical American diet is overloaded with processed foods: cold cereal or a bagel for breakfast, a burger or ham sandwich on white bread with chips or fries plus coffee or a soda for lunch, and meat and potatoes, pizza or pasta and maybe a salad of iceberg lettuce for dinner. This all adds up to a devitalized diet high in simple carbohydrates, saturated fats and lots of calories and low in nutrient-rich vegetables, fruits and whole grains. It's no wonder that Americans are generally overweight and undernourished. |
| An immune-enhancing diet would include a wide variety of colorful, real foods as close to their natural state as possible: organically grown fruits and vegetables, whole grains and legumes along with adequate amounts of protein from soy, fish or grains. |
| Commercially raised meat and poultry are commonly treated with drugs and hormones. These contaminants create toxicity in the body, weakening immunity and are often cofactors in many illnesses from allergies to hormonal imbalance. It is far healthier for the immune system to minimize your consumption of animal products and to restrict your consumption to that which is naturally raised. |
| Certain nutrient-dense foods, especially organic vegetables, fruits and whole grains, show a remarkable ability to increase vitality and enhance immunity. Also, natural yogurt with live cultures can help to repopulate the intestine with a garden of beneficial intestinal flora, restoring diges- |
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