Why healthy eating can help you fight COVID-19
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Wearing a face covering, physical distancing, and hand washing are not the only ways that people can protect themselves from COVID-19.
Eating a healthy diet is essential to building a strong immune system so that your body is less susceptible to infection, including the coronavirus, said Carlin Rafie, a registered dietitian and professor in Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
“Lifestyle does impact your immune function,” said Rafie, whose past research has focused on immune function.
“Having said that, you could be perfectly well nourished and have a healthy diet and still get COVID-19.
Keeping your kids active and healthy during a pandemic
and last updated 2020-12-28 17:22:24-05
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Kids have a ton of energy, but instead of playing at recess and walking from class-to-class, quarantine is causing many of them to spend more time in front of computer screens. It helps your physical body, but it also helps your mental body and especially with the times we re in right now I want to be able to build that into kids, she said.
If you re a parent she said to start by making exercise a fun family activity, it s really hard to have kids do things when you re just standing there watching, but as soon as you get involved they want to do it.