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Role of Immunity Boosting Nutritional Foods and COVID-19

Mishra P*, Mohapatra AK and Maharana S

IMS and SUM Hospital, SOA University, Odisha, India

*Corresponding Author: P, IMS and SUM Hospital, SOA University, Odisha, India.

Received: August 11, 2020

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Abstract

 “Health is wealth”. Keeping oneself healthy is one of the concerns today. Depending on the climate, regions, places many people eat their local foods and keep themselves fit. Some do yoga and exercise along with the food. But it has been seen that a balanced nutritional diet is the main cause of the keeping a person fit. Depending on the diseases proper foods are advised.
Today WHO has declared the CoVID-19 cases as pandemic. The whole world is panic now. In this situation making your immunity through your daily available food is one of the important issues. Of course side by side breathing exercise is advised.
In this report, Nutrition related issues in relations to immunity to avoid infection of COVID -19 is discussed, besides maintaining social distancing among people, use of mask and repeated hand washing.

Keywords: COVID-19; Immunity; Coronavirus

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Citation: Mishra P., et al. “Role of Immunity Boosting Nutritional Foods and COVID-19”. Acta Scientific Nutritional Health 4.9 (2020): 02-06.




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