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Jadoo Diet

SAAOL JADOO DIET

In this issue of the Saaol times we bring out details of Jadoo diet – the easiest, cheapest, most scientific and fastest weight loss program. Developed by Dr. Bimal Chhajer, founder of Saaol this diet videos have already 20, 00,000 views and thousands have lost weight through this simple diet program, where there is no restrictions about the quantity of intake. We would like our readers to try this diet and share this with your friends and relatives.
Last month on 20 th September, 2020 Dr. Chhajer was there in Mumbai to inaugurate our new center in Virar – a suburb of Mumbai. This center will cover the northern part of Maharashtra bordering Gujarat. This will be 94th Center of Saaol and 12th Center in the state of Maharashtra.

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On 26th of October, 2020 we are starting our anther new center in the city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan. Jodhpur, called the Suncity – is the second city of Rajasthan in population. This will be our 4th center in Rajasthan.
Our YouTube channel – Saaol- has increased its popularity in recent days. We have playlists where we discuss about Heart, Jadoo diet, Zero oil cooking and Stress management. Very recently we have started a play list called “Health Education” where Dr. Chhajer will talk on different health topics related to health. Our viewership has increased to about 200000 views per day and we have a total view exceeding 3.5 crores. We have 7 lac subscribers

Inauguration of Saaol Heart Center

INAUGRATION OF SAAOL HEART CENTER, VIRAR (MUMBAI)

The festival days are coming and sweets will be made, bought and shared by every household in India. We request you to make Zero oil sweets. We already have posted videos of 25 zero oil recipes in the YouTube. We plan to put some more sweet items in the coming days. Please try making some of them at your home as you have more time at the time of Corona Lockdown.

Dr. Bimal Chhajer's Talk

(Weight Loss Magic Diet)

Few decades back there was a problem due to lack of nutrition called Malnutrition. But now in the modern world there are various problems due to over-nutrition, availability of nutrition or wrong nutrition. Heart disease is most common problem in this context and is fatal. It is killing a lot of population. The second most common problem is Overweight or Obesity. Mostly the people of middle or upper class are obese. Obesity brings many problems like bad posture, high BP, high Sugar, Joint Pain etc. Today our topic is Obesity and how to take care of it. If we deeply analyze the causes of Obesity we find five reasons behind the huge number of people who have become obese or over weight. These are: 1. Availability of high calorie food like Fatty Foods and Cereals. 2. Lack of physical activity because people have no time. 3. Lack of knowledge about calorie content of various foods. 4. Consumption of high calorie food in outside or parties. 5. Lack of control over the emotional mind. They know that the food has more calories but they still consume it.

If we discuss the third point - that people have lack of knowledge about calories - this can be solved. It happened because the schools and colleges do not teach counting of calories in the diet. The doctors and dieticians do not have time to make people aware about calories. Some people read magazines or see on internet and acquire some knowledge which is not complete. The counting of the calories is also very complicated – as most of the foods have combination of carbohydrates, proteins, water, fiber and fats. To solve this, we in Saaol have devised a very simple formula for our followers. Those who want to lose weight find it very simple and have been able to lose weight by 10-40 kilograms in months. We explain this counting as “Count your calories like you count your money”.

We realized that some foods have very low calories – about 100 grams will give us 20 calories. We called them Rs. 20 foods.
They are mostly vegetables and salads. The next group has little more calories – about 50 calories per 100 grams. These are Rs. 50 foods. This group includes most of the fruits. The third group had all the carbs(carbohydrates) and Proteins. About 25 grams of these foods in raw form(uncooked form) leads to 100 calories. These are mostly Cereals and pulses. They are called Rs. 100 foods. And lastly are the foods which have very high fat contents with cereals – these are Rs. 500 foods. Just understanding and identifying these foods can work miracles for those who want to lose weight. Eating Rs. 20 and 50 foods and avoiding Rs.100 and Rs.500 foods will lead to weight loss. This is the simple concept of Jadoo Diet. Millions of people have seen our videos in YouTube and lost weight. You can also do the same – if you want. --Dr. Bimal Chhajer

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Food Chapter | Zero Oil Potato Chips

INGREDIENTS (PER SERVING):

Potato – 150 gm
Kali Mirch Powder – ½ t
Kasuri Methi – ½ t crushed
Salt – according to taste

METHOD OF PREPARATION

1. Slice the potatoes into thin rounds using a sharp knife or a slicer. Aim to have them about 1/8 inches thick, they should not be too thick.

2. Place the potatoes in a single layer on microwave tray. Microwave them for 2-3 minutes until crispy and golden brown. Gently remove the chips and place on the serving plate.

3. Sprinkle salt, black pepper and kasuri methi mix on the potato chips. Let them cool for few minutes and Zero Oil Potato Chips are ready to serve.

Calories in 20 gm Zero Oil Potato Chips: 70 calories
Calories in 20 gm Potato Chips with Oil: 110 calories

SAAOL WEIGHT LOSS MAGIC DIET

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Jadoo Diet

This is the best possible diet program for losing weight at a rapid speed. Developed by Dr. Bimal Chhajer, The founder of Saaol and famous Heart care and Lifestyle Expert. The concept is “Eat as much and still keep on losing weight”. The key is to eat only low calories but you can eat food without any amount of restriction. The number of times for eating can also increase depending on hunger. You do not need to make a diet chart with any calories (like 1000 calories, 1200 calories, or any other). There is no need to spend fees on consultation to create a calorie-wise diet chart. All you need to understand - what a magic diet is, then you can make a diet plan for yourself or anyone.



The concept of Calories in Jadoo Diet

The word ‘calorie’ is perhaps one of the most talked and discussed words of the modern world. Most of us are so-called ‘calorie-conscious’. Scientifically speaking, a calorie is ‘unit’ of energy, it is, ‘the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one-degree centigrade from 14.5 C to 15.5 C’. In layman’s language, we can say ‘as petrol to the car the same as a calorie to the body’, that means calorie is fuel for the body, which comes from the food we eat.

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Calorie Content

All the food we eat or drink, except plain water, contains calories. The calorie content of the food depends on its composition. All the food items are made with three calorie giving items namely carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. Protein and carbohydrate part of the food gives 4 Kcal of energy from 1 gm of food each, and fat gives 9 kcal of energy per gm of food. Let’s understand this with an example;
1 pc of bread is roughly 35 gm, its composition is: Moisture 10 gm Protein negligible Fat negligible Carbohydrates 25 gm
Since moisture is water so it will contribute 0 calories, and protein and fat content are negligible, so here we consider only 25 gram of carbohydrate, according to which 1 pc of bread will give 100 Kcal of energy (as 1 gm of carbohydrate gives 4 Kcal of energy therefore 25 gm will give 25 * 4= 100 Kcal of energy). Similarly, all other food which we eat contains these basic ingredients in different proportions and has calorie content accordingly.

Modifications in Jadoo Diet

Oil has a lot of Calories (1 gram is equal to 9 Calories). Jadoo diet allows people to eat cooked food – mainly vegetables and Dal/pulses, but they should be without oil. Saaol has developed a complete cooking system called Zero Oil cooking where cooking is done without oil.

Jadoo diet leads to lots of weight reduction – in the tune of 5-7 kg per month. So, it does not require people to follow it lifelong. One or two meals of Jadoo diet can be replaced when one reaches the ideal or target weight. Then they are allowed cereals like rice and wheat but the cooking of vegetable and dals should be “Zero oil”. This can be called “Jadoo Maintenance diet”. This assures that the weight does not increase again.

SAAOL’s Calorie Note Food Items List
Rs. 20 Rs. 50 Rs. 100 Rs. 500 Rs. 1000
Brinjal 100 gm Apple 100 gm Roti 30 gm Cashewnut 70 gm All Cooking Oil 110 gm
Bottle Gourd 170 gm Amla 100 gm Red Gram Dal 100 gm Chocolates 100 gm -- --
Cauliflower 100 gm Mausambi 110 gm Sprouts 100 gm Gulab Jamun 100 gm -- --
Cucumber 150 gm Pear 110 gm Sevai 60 gm Groundnut 80 gm -- --
Palak 100 gm Lemon 100 gm Poha 100 gm Butter 60 gm -- --
Methi 100 gm Pineapple 90 gm Thick Dal 100 gm Ghee 70 gm -- --
Cabbage 100 gm Glass Juice 80 ml Veg Noodles 100 gm Almond 50 gm -- --
Radish 117 gm Cherry 80 gm Cooked Rice 100 gm Bread Pakora 115 gm -- --
Pistachio 53.5 gm Papaya 160 gm Wheat Breige 35 gm Fried Snacks 130 gm -- --
Vegetable Soup 40.1 gm Orange 100 gm Banana 90 gm Walnuts 100 gm -- --
Skimmed Milk 80 Ml -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Basil Seeds 18.5 gm -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Dates / Khajoor 0.4 gm -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Fig / Anjeer 0.2 gm -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Raisins 0.3 gm -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Makhana / Lotus Seeds 0.1 gm -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Coconut Water 0.1 gm -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Today the world is accepting the power of simplicity, more simple is the information more relevant it is in our day to day life. The information if given in simple, short and easy language makes deeper impact. One interesting thing what we did, is rather than using the word ‘calorie’ we used the word ‘Rs’.

We made the divisions as per the calorie content of particular food ‘group’ and clustering them together reducing confusion to the minimal.
Have a look at it:

1. 20 Rs. notes- all Vegetables and Salads (except Potato) comes in this category, which means if a person eats 100 gm of these he will get 20 Kcal of energy.

2. 50 Rs. notes- all Fruits come in this category (except Banana, Mango, Litchi and Cheeku), that means no matter which fruit you are eating in any case it will give 50 Kcal of energy on its 100 gm consumption.

3. 100 Rs. notes- a single serving of all Cereals and Pulses come in this category that means if you consume 1 Chapatti, a piece of Bread, 1 katori Cooked Rice, 1 katori Dal or 4 pcs. Of Britannia Marie Biscuits then you will get 100 Kcal of energy. Potato, Banana, Mango, Litchi and Cheeku also give 100 kcal of energy upon their 100 gm consumption that is why they are kept in this group.

4. 500 Rs. notes- all fried foods like Pakori, Kachori, Poori, Paratha, Patties etc, all sweets like Rasgullah, Gulab Jamun, Barfi, Laddoo, Ice-Creams, Chocolates, Pies, Brownies, Truffles etc come in this category.

So simple! Will you remember now how to count the calories? It is from now onwards it is like counting notes for you!

The basic rule is that if you want to reduce weight you should eat lots of Rs. 20 and Rs. 50 foods; if you want to increase weight you should eat Rs. 100 foods and if you want to increase weight as well as heart disease eat Rs. 500 foods.

What is the use of Counting Calories?

The body uses about 1600 calories per day for a common sedentary person. If more than 1600 calories are eaten by anyone on a particular day body will spare calories left out. These will be converted into fats and stored in the body increasing our weight. If this goes on everyday gradually the body weight will increase. So, if anyone wants to lose weight, his/her calorie consumption should be 1000 per day. They should consume only Rs. 20 and Rs. 50 foods. They should also minimize the consumption of Rs. 100 foods. And all those food items coming in 500 Rs. notes are strictly prohibited; if you take them then definitely you are going to get serious health problem over a period of time. All major health related problems like obesity, hypertension, coronary artery disease and diabetes etc. are actually, the problem which we buy in these 500 Rs. notes food items. If someone wants to gain weight. He/she has to eat more of Rs. 100 and Rs. 500 foods and avoid or take less low calorie food (Rs. 20 and Rs. 50 foods). Heart patients and Obese should completely avoid Rs. 500 foods.


Diet Tips
Diet Tips When Following Jadoo Diet

A common menu of Jadoo diet
Breakfast: Fruits & Salads
Lunch: Dalma (Thin Dal/Lentil + Chopped Vegetables/Salads)
Dinner: Boiled Vegetables with Soup
In-Between: Fresh Juices, Coconut Water, Lemon Water, Herbal Drinks & Fruits/Salads.
Seven Foods that lead to Weight Loss
1.Fruits: There is no restriction on eating the fruits. All fruits are low calorie fruits except Mango, Banana, Cheeku, Grapes and Litchi.

2.Vegetables: All vegetables can be eaten freely except Potato because it has high calorie than all other vegetables. But always remember that vegetable should be zero oil cook. Because after adding oil, the calories of the vegetable start doubling.
3.Salads: Eat all types of salads in full. There is no restriction.
4.Soups: Make any type of food but without any fat or cream. This is very helpful in losing weight because soup contains more water and water has no calories. This is healthy too.
5.Skimed Milk: You can add skim milk in your diet. It has very low calories and about negligible fat. You can take buttermilk also.
6.Fruit Juices: Drink all fruits juices except Mango, Banna, Grapes, Cheeku, Litchi without any restriction. Take care that there should be no added sugar in fruit juices, because sugar has high calorie.
7.Tea/Coffee: Take tea/coffee freely. There is no calorie of water and flavor in these; calorie is only of sugar and milk. So, do not add sugar and milk in tea/coffee. If you want to use milk then add skim milk. But avoid sugar fully in tea/coffee.

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Four Fruits which Increase Weight

These four foods lead to increment in weight. So, Jadoo diet advices people to avoid them while they want to lose weight.

1. Mango
2. Banana
3. Grapes
4. Cheeku

Exercises which lead to Weight Loss

1. Walking
2. Surya Namaskar
3. Skipping
4. Aerobics & Cycling

Diet takes care of 80-90% of the weight loss when one follows Jadoo diet. But if you want to lose faster and keep the body fit – please add one or two of the above in your daily routine. A minimum of 35 minutes time has to be spent on these exercises on daily basis.

Frequently Asked Questions

Jadoo Diet needs to be followed in full for only a few months when you lose rapidly to your Target weight. Then you can relax it and go for: Jadoo Maintenance Diet” where one of the meals can be replaced with normal food – preferably cooked “Zero Oil”.

Jadoo Diet gives immense benefits to all the above diseases. As you lose weight – Diabetes gets controlled, BP reduces if it was high – BP tablets need to be reduced if BP falls. Osteo Arthritis and joint pains improve substantially as one loses weight

Jadoo diet has three meals – Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. But the food gets digested in two to three hours and the hunger may come back – you may feel weak at that moment. Please take some juices, salads, or cut fruits at that time. Another possibility is the reduction of BP and sugar for those who are on medicines for these diseases – please withdraw the medicines in consultation with your physician. Some people feel weakness when people comment “you are looking weak” – please take such comments as a compliment and renew your efforts towards further reduction.

Possible. Please take a glass of juice, soup, or a cup of tea (without sugar). A bowl of salad or fruits can also be taken. There is no restriction on the number of times you eat in the Jadoo diet and also in the quantity of food.

Not at all. If you want to save money – please go to the market yourself and look for the cheapest of the vegetables, salads, and fruits in the market. The prices vary with the season – tomatoes, cucumber, cabbages are very cheap in season time.

Yes. But remember that milk has a lot of fats. So, anything you want in the form of milk or its products – should be with Skimmed milk. Buttermilk or Chhach can replace Soups and Juices if you want and help to reduce weight. Paneer should be taken in small quantity if one wishes to have paneer.

Making soup at home is cumbersome and the taste may not come. When one is in an outside location making soup may not be possible. So, the Jadoo diet allows Readymade soups to help people to follow the program practically. Preservatives are not like poison – but if someone can prepare soup at home with all taste it is best.

Jadoo diet gives plenty of fibers – so constipations are very rare. But if you have it – please take plenty of water. This helps the intestine and it does not reabsorb water from the stool and the stool remains soft.

Most of the dry fruits and especially nuts have a lot of fats and plenty of Calories. So, it goes against the Jadoo diet. Please avoid them

Jadoo diet takes out fats from all over the body. The belly also reduces. But if you want to reduce belly specifically please add ABS exercises in your routine of exercises. Please Type ABS Exercise and search on YouTube for these exercises.

No. These are cereals and have a lot of calories. They are Rs. 10 foods. You can have them once in a while in a very small quantity for the sake of taste. You can have then in one meal during Jadoo’s maintenance period.

Jadoo diet does not recommend Non-Veg as they have Cholesterol. But if someone is very keen only a small amount of Boiled Fish or Chicken is allowed once in a while.

It is preferred not to add sugar or Honey- as they give extra calories. Once you take the chances of a retake is also possible. Try to take natural artificial sweeteners like Stevia, if you want sweetness.

No. A hundred grams of Roasted Chana or gram has 350 calories. This goes against losing weight.

No is the straight answer. But if you are adamant please have once in a week or so.

There is no need. The fruits and vegetables already give plenty of them.

Jadoo diet allows plenty of Dhal or Pulses. They give proteins. If you take skimmed milk – that also gives you proteins. Few months of little protein deficiency does not harm you.

To avoid this please keep on making changes in the variety. The fruits can be changed. Vegetables can be cooked with zero oil. Soups should be rotated. Chutneys, ketchup, salt, and masalas can be used whenever needed.

Please add milk products, chutneys, ketchup, and proper zero oil cooking (where spices are allowed) to make foods tasty. Try to enjoy the natural taste of fruits and salads. They taste wonderful.

This can be called Jadoo Maintenance Diet also. Here we allow you one or two meals with cereals. This can be followed for long term weight management and stop regaining of weight.

There are ten kinds of dals in the market. Take whichever you feel. Mix them in different quantities to make more varieties. All of them are allowed. Thin consistency is preferred if you want to lose faster.

Egg whites are allowed but do not take more than one per day.

Yes. It does not have a lot of calories. We allow a small amount of preservatives.

No. They have high calories.

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Main Parts of the Immune System

Identification of Arrhythmia
Palpitation, Breathlessness, Chest Pain, Dizziness, Fainting (Syncope), Tiredness, Uneasiness, Light Headedness.

Risk factors
Certain conditions may increase your risk of developing an arrhythmia. These include:

1. Coronary artery disease, other heart problems and previous heart surgery

2. High Blood Pressure

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3. Congenital Heart Disease | Thyroid Problems | Diabetes | Obstructive Sleep Apnea | Electrolytic Imbalance

Complications
Certain arrhythmias may increase your risk of developing conditions such as:

1. Stroke or Paralysis

2. Heart Failure

3. Sudden Cardiac Arrest

4. Worsening Arrhythmia

Few important terms
LBBB or RBBB (Bundle Branch Block)

Lots of people come to know from their ECG that they have some defect in the Pace Maker System of the heart but they are told that since they do not have any symptoms they do not any treatment. One of them is Bundle Branch Block – it may be the right or Left Bundle Branch. This kind of heart disease is called RBBB or LBBB.
The defect in these cases is delay or default in the Bundle of His – the nerve that transmits electrical signals to the Left or Right lower chambers of the heart or ventricles (which ultimately lead to their pumping action). This block is in the electric signals – which now reach directly through the muscles and the ventricles beat almost normally. So, the work of the heart goes on as usual. The patient does not need any treatment or have any symptoms.
The cause of the interruption is mostly a shortage of blood due to the death of the area of the heart muscles through which the nerve thread passes. This occurs because of fat deposits in the branch of the coronary arteries supplying that area. This is like a very minor heart attack – which goes unnoticed. Such patients, if they do not take care of their diet, lifestyle, and blood lipid levels, further progress to the next stage – Bi Fascicular Block (both RBBB and LBBB together) and then Complete Heart Block. The Complete Heart Block ( it is an electrical signal block) needs External Pace Maker Implantation.
Though the most common cause of Bundle Branch Blocks is coronary artery blocks/heart attacks – the other uncommon causes of LBBB or RBBB are genetic defects in the heart (from birth), Cardiomyopathy, Myocarditis, High Blood Pressure or Pulmonary hypertension.

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Ventricular Ectopics (Missing beats)

Almost all the heartbeats that we have, generate from the S A Node or original pace Maker of the heart which is located in the wall of the Right Atrium. They first stimulate the Atria (the two upper chambers) and then the Ventricles (the lower Chambers). This leads to a normal heartbeat. But sometimes the ventricles contract on their own without any signal from above. This leads to an extra beat in the heart called Ectopic Beat or VPC (Ventricular Premature Beat). It can be felt by the patient if we count the pulse as a missing beat. Many healthy people can get it and till 3000 VPCs per day (3%) it may be considered normal. They may be because of stress, extra caffeine, extra alcohol, and strenuous exercises.
But if they become too frequent or come in doubles or triples – it can lead to giddiness or fainting. This needs treatment. There are medicines (like Amiodarone) that can control them – but the underlying cause is again Coronary Heart Disease or Shortage of blood to some part of the heart due to Coronary artery fatty deposits.
If the reasons (called Risk factors) of the fat deposits (like Cholesterol, Triglycerides, High BP, High Sugar, Smoking, stress, lack of exercise, obesity) is not withdrawn they may worse and lead to Ventricular Tachycardia or Ventricular Fibrillation. This condition now becomes very serious as the ventricles continuously generate Ectopics – which may even lead to death. Such patients immediately need Electric Shock (Cardioversion) to restore normal beats. If the preventive care is still not taken - Later on they may need to be repeated electric shocks using ICD device.

P -SVT or SVT (Paroxsysmal Supra Ventricular Tachycardia)

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This is a kind of rapid or very fast heartbeat (130-200) and occurs for a short duration. Patients feel uneasy and can feel the high speed of the heart. This is caused by the existence of some of the electrical signal generators in the atrial wall near the main pacemaker or S A Node. They sometimes become active and generate fast signals which take over the SA Node function. This is mostly called AVNRT (Atrio-Ventricular Nodal Re-entrant Tachycardia).
Since it is a temporary fast beat – it is never life-threatening. It is usually stimulated by Stress, Anxiety, caffeine, drugs, or Alcohol. It does not usually need treatment, but it occurs very frequently can be treated with drugs like Calaptin. Vagus nerve stimulation by massaging in the back of the lower part of the ear can revert it on many occasions.
The Hospital system usually wants to do RFA (Radio Frequency Ablation) in such cases which is not only invasive but often fails as they try to burn the suspected nerve areas on the wall of the Atria by trial and error method. This should be tried only if the lifestyle and medicines fail.

EPS or EP Studies (Electro Physiological Studies)

This is an invasive testing procedure to study the origin of certain types of Arrhythmia or irregular heartbeats. This usually needs inserting a catheter in your body – which is pushed to the selected chamber of the heart. Electrodes are also pushed along the catheter to study the electrical activity of the areas of the heart to search for the origin of the abnormal nerve location. It is a complex study and very few experts can give exact opinions on the test. However, it can be done if all methods of control of the irregular beats fail. It costs usually Rs. 30000-50000.

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Immunity Boosting Tips from Saaol

According to Dr. Bimal Chhajer, Heart Care and Lifestyle Expert, the Chances of Death is on an average 2.3% but a healthy individual below the age of 40 years has less than 1% chance. The chances increase if the individual has Heart disease, Diabetes, High BP, Asthma, or if you are aged above 70 years. But what we can do otherwise – to save our life? It is immunity. Young healthy has strong immunity, so they are saved. But How to boost immunity? There are the ways to increase one’s immunity. Cutting down on stress and performing Yogasana and practice of Meditation also helps to increase immunity. But the most important are foods we eat.
Ten major foods to boost our immunity are as follows:
1. Eat citrus foods like Orange, Lemon, Amla, Kiwi.
2. Broccoli, Spinach, red Bell Pepper (Shimla Mirch), and other green leafy vegetables increase our immunity.
3.A combination of Apple Cider Vinegar, Garlic, Ginger, Honey and Lemon is also very good way to increase immunity.
4. Probiotics like Curd or Yogurt helps to increase immunity.
5. Any FruitS/vegetables – specially red ones like Papaya, Carrot, Beet also gives Vitamin A to boost immunity.
6. Green Tea, Tulsi, Cinnamon drinks also very healthy so far as immunity is concerned.
7. Turmeric or Haldi extract has ability to boost immunity.
8. Black Grapes has very high anti oxidants and thus good for immunity.
9.Cutting down on Meat, Alcohol, Tobacco/Smoking that weakens immunity.
10. Mushrooms also have virus protection capacity.
In case one is not able to get all these foods Multi vitamins can be taken. Calcium, micro nutrients like Zinc, copper, manganese and Vitamin D3 can be taken extra for increasing one’s immunity.
Antioxidants and Immunity
An antioxidant is a molecule capable of slowing or preventing the oxidation of other molecules. Oxidation is a chemical reaction that transfers electrons from a substance to an oxidizing agent. Oxidation reactions can produce free radicals, which start chain reactions that damage cells.
1. Vitamin E is also a superstar for immunity. . It protects cellular membranes of the immune system and other cells by trapping free radicals and enhances the effectiveness of white blood cells.
2. Some sources of vitamin E include mustard and turnip greens, spinach, broccoli, carrots, mangoes, papaya, and pumpkin.
3. Vitamins B6 and B12 indirectly contribute to antioxidant defenses having considerable influence on the immune system. A deficiency of these vitamins will create abnormalities in the immune system.
4. Vitamin C prevents the production of free radicals and reduces DNA damage in immune cells. Since your body can’t produce vitamin C, a plentiful supply must come from your diet. Some sources of vitamin C include berries, kiwi, red, yellow, green peppers, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and cauliflower.
5. Beta-carotene is another powerhouse for immune function. In addition to being a precursor for the immune protector, vitamin A, this nutrient provides powerful antioxidant defenses against invading pathogens.
Natural Ways of Improving Immunity
All the above foods are necessary for increasing immunity but there are few more things that are important:
1. Walk regularly.
2. Do Yoga daily.
3.Cut down Stress.
4. Get adequate Sleep.
5. Stay away from Pollution or avoid it.
6. Avoid Processed Food in the diet.
7. Drink sufficient Water.

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