Flu Season
Just studying for nutrition and thought that this may be helpful to others!
This flu season remember: Starve a cold and Starve a fever. Let your energy be directed at getting rid of the microorganism, not at digesting food! Kids and animals do this innately, adults override this tendency.
Drink fluids (water, herbal teas, broths) hourly to help thin out mucus and urinate out toxins and to keep from becoming dehydrated. When your appetite returns, eat lightly. Brown rice, vegetable soup, steamed veggies, pieces of white chicken.
If you have to, take a day or two off work because you will heal faster and you will be more productive in the long run. Spend those days lying in bed. Science has shown that our immune systems are more active at rest. Get some hydrotherapy done. It will help stimulate the body and reduce sinus and chest congestion as well as a sore throat.
Do not eat dairy because it creates mucous and with diarrhea the lactase enzyme disappears, but returns when the gut heals.
Do not eat sugar because it decreases the bodies immune response.
Do not eat junk food or fast food. It's toxic.
Thanks Dr. Morstein
