New Zealand - How to prevent flu during winter? In fact vitamin D is the correct answer. As you know, we get a lot of vitamin D from the sun through our skin. However, this vitamin can also be found from foods such as oily fish, eggs, and cereal for breakfast. Most people can get vitamin D balance they need by eating a balanced healthy diet and sunshine in the summer time.
Scientists said they found no evidence that taking vitamin D supplements can prevent flu. The team of scientists from New Zealand has been to test the "gold standard", ie randomized placebo controlled trial, to see the effects of these supplements are given.
The study involved 161 people who took vitamin D for 18 months. Apparently, they have the flu as much as 161 people who took dummy pills. The results of this study self-reported in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
However, the results of this study contradicted by flu experts from the UK, who say vitamin D is very useful. Professor Ronald Eccles, from the Common Cold Centre, Cardiff University, says vitamin D may provide the immune system as much as needed to brace for the winter, where the amount of vitamin D at the time it was found to be very low. He himself admitted that taking vitamin D every year is a precaution.
"There is a lot of information sufficient to indicate that vitamin D is an important vitamin for the immune system. Supplements may help support your immune over the winter, in which vitamin D is hard to come by."
He also added that these supplements also help prevent coughs and colds. "But supplements do not work for everyone because different immune system owned. This can not be the basis of all of them. It's no good unless you lack," he said.
