Winter Diet to Keep from Getting Sick

Diet and Nutrition
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Every winter i try to read up on what to do to avoid getting sick.

I supplement my diet in the winter with L-glut, a multi-vitamin and the ZMA i usually take religiously.

Usually in the winter i start to bulk, i change up my routine and start to eat less lean diet (aka… i eat fries and burgers again) but this year i dont wanna go through dieting in the spring again and keep a cleaner diet and try to lean bulk this winter. Opposed to the massive bulk i do and drop down in the summer.

I’m just going to stick with my normal diet. which is what you would expect for a guy who’s been lifting for years and has a pretty good idea of what to eat and do.

I’m not a bodybuilder if that helps. I like to powerlift and i wanna help my performance in martial arts (however i cant train until feb because im currently on bloodthinners)

Anything anybody does in particular to help stay healthy and losing weeks to being sick?

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omega 3’s & vit A are power houses. Won’t protect you but might help you heal faster.

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Vitamin D3
Superfood

both would be good additions
I’ve been doing oranges as of late as well

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D3 supplementation is getting a lot of tout for staying healthy in the winter.

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If I feel a cold coming on I megadose Vitamin C at 1000mg every few hours and drink plenty of green tea. It has worked well for me.

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[quote]ACTrain wrote:
If I feel a cold coming on I megadose Vitamin C at 1000mg every few hours and drink plenty of green tea. It has worked well for me.[/quote]

actually i have… which inspired this post. I had green peppers too for dinner… and in the sub im eating now… green peppers have something like 5 times the vit C that oranges do too!

Im making some green tea…

thanks for all the suggestions, im looking into them now.

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Squats. Apparently, they cure cancer.

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I supplement with Juice+ Both the juice and veggie pill and it has worked great for me but I stopped taking them for about a month do to low funds and I got the swine flu haha.

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I just came back from a seminar this weekend and learned quite a bit about staying healthy and fighting inflammation. My take in a nutshell…

-Use common sense and avoid your fried food, trans fats, etc.
-3g of Omega 3 EPA DHA each day - like 6 caps most likely
-2000 mg D3
-Probiotics
-Multivitamin and/or 500mg Vitamin C, 400 IU E

That’s what I would take to keep the flu at bay, IMO.