Five Foods You Should Have Each Day

From Prevention Magazine:

They say an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Here are five more foods you may want to add to your daily diet. These will help boost your immune system, so you’ll have even fewer reasons to call the doctor.

• The first food you should eat every day: Yogurt. A new Austrian study found that eating seven-ounces of yogurt each day had the same immunity boosting effects as popping a daily vitamin supplement! Why? Because yogurt’s loaded with the “good” bacteria your body needs to keep harmful germs out of your digestive system.
  
  
• You can also keep the doctor away by eating more: Mushrooms. New research shows that compounds in mushrooms increase the body’s production of white blood cells – making them more aggressive at fighting off infections! So, try to include a handful of mushrooms in at least one meal each day; either in a breakfast omelet, a lunchtime bowl of soup, or a dinner serving of pasta.
  
  
• Another food you should serve yourself every day: Oats and barley. Researchers in Norway say these whole grains are loaded with a potent fiber known to help speed wound healing! It may also lower your risk of contracting the flu.
  
  
• A 4th immunity-boosting food: Tea. Immunologists at Harvard report that people who drank five cups of tea every day had 10 times more cold and flu-fighting proteins in their body! The virus fighting benefits of tea kick-in long before five cups. Adding just two full cups of black or green tea to your daily diet may protect you from common dangers like food poisoning, athlete’s foot, or even malaria! It may even help slow the growth of cancerous tumor cells.
  
  
• Here’s one more food you should eat every day: Garlic. A recent British study found that people who ate garlic extract every day for three months were 67% less likely to catch a cold! Garlic’s also been shown to cut your risk for stomach and colorectal cancer by more than 30%! So aim to include at least two cloves of crushed or raw garlic in your meals every day.