Healthy Food Choices for Illness-Prevention

Proper eating habits aligned with plenty of vitamin c and water will help you stay healthy. Learn some tips for illness prevention in this video.

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Fruits & vegetables are loaded with vitamin C
Take multi-vitamins
Eat a well balanced diet

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Alice Merritt is currently the Campus Dietitian at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She has a masters degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in public health with a concentration on nutrition. Alice has worked as a registered dietician for four years, and believes that helping people reach their nutritional goals will lead to a long and healthy life.

ALICE MERRITT: Now I'm going to talk to you about illness prevention. These days with a busy lifestyle, nobody has any time to be sick. So following some of these healthy tips will help keep you well and keep you doing the things that you need to do. Some healthy food choices to help prevent illness are eating lots of fruits and vegetables, especially your citrusy fruits that are going to have lots of Vitamin C, an immune-packed vitamins and minerals, antioxidants. It's also a good idea to take a multivitamin because the multivitamin ensures you're going to get the minimum amounts of your daily nutrition from most vitamins and minerals. It's also very important to make sure you eat a balanced diet. Eat at least 3 meals and maybe 2 snacks a day, and never skip meals, because when you skip meals, this lowers your immunity and makes you more susceptible to catching illnesses. Also, it's important to make sure that you drink plenty of water; the minimum amount is 64 ounces a day. You also want to make sure you get adequate sleep because the more sleep deprived, our body is more susceptible to catching illnesses. So the most important things to remember about illness prevention is to make sure you eat lots of fruits and vegetables, eat a balanced diet with at least 3 meals, 2 snacks a day, never skip meals. Make sure you take a multivitamin. Drink a minimum of 64 ounces of water a day, and get adequate rest. All of these things will help keep you healthy and prevent illnesses.

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