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How Nutrition can help to fight against COVID-19 Pandemic
Currently Covid-19 pandemic is a leading challenge across the globe. It is mandatory to attain and maintain good nutritional status to fight against virus. Nutritional status of individual is affected by several factors such as age, sex, health status, life style and medications. Nutritional status...
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Professional Medical Publications
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7306972/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32582329 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.COVID19-S4.2776 |
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author | Aman, Faseeha Masood, Sadia |
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description | Currently Covid-19 pandemic is a leading challenge across the globe. It is mandatory to attain and maintain good nutritional status to fight against virus. Nutritional status of individual is affected by several factors such as age, sex, health status, life style and medications. Nutritional status of individuals has been used as resilience towards destabilization during this COVID-19 pandemic. Optimal nutrition and dietary nutrient intake impact the immune system, therefore the only sustainable way to survive in current context is to strengthen the immune system. There is no evidence found that supplement can cure the immune system except Vit C, which is one of the best way to improve immune system. A proper diet can ensure that the body is in proper state to defeat the virus. However along with the dietary management guidelines the food safety management and good food practices is compulsory. This article explores the importance of nutrition to boost immunity and gives some professional and authentic dietary guidelines about nutrition and food safety to withstand COVID-19. |
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spelling | pubmed-73069722020-06-23 How Nutrition can help to fight against COVID-19 Pandemic Aman, Faseeha Masood, Sadia Pak J Med Sci Brief Communication Currently Covid-19 pandemic is a leading challenge across the globe. It is mandatory to attain and maintain good nutritional status to fight against virus. Nutritional status of individual is affected by several factors such as age, sex, health status, life style and medications. Nutritional status of individuals has been used as resilience towards destabilization during this COVID-19 pandemic. Optimal nutrition and dietary nutrient intake impact the immune system, therefore the only sustainable way to survive in current context is to strengthen the immune system. There is no evidence found that supplement can cure the immune system except Vit C, which is one of the best way to improve immune system. A proper diet can ensure that the body is in proper state to defeat the virus. However along with the dietary management guidelines the food safety management and good food practices is compulsory. This article explores the importance of nutrition to boost immunity and gives some professional and authentic dietary guidelines about nutrition and food safety to withstand COVID-19. Professional Medical Publications 2020-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7306972/ /pubmed/32582329 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.COVID19-S4.2776 Text en Copyright: © Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Brief Communication Aman, Faseeha Masood, Sadia How Nutrition can help to fight against COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | How Nutrition can help to fight against COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | How Nutrition can help to fight against COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | How Nutrition can help to fight against COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | How Nutrition can help to fight against COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | How Nutrition can help to fight against COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | how nutrition can help to fight against covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Brief Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7306972/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32582329 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.COVID19-S4.2776 |
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