Healthy diet for serious covid infection prevention

[Flossie44]

Was just wondering this really..does a healthy diet show any protection from developing a serious form of covid?

I eat very healthily..and I know this is ultimately a great thing. But does this have any bearing in terms of covid? Love looking at stats and can’t see any on nutrition and this hideous virus

It probably helps yes.

Well it will probably help. It can’t do any harm, but it’s not a guarantee.

No guarantee but healthy diet, healthy weight, exercise and plenty of vitamin d helps with keeping in good condition and that's never a bad thing. I'm convinced the reason I got covid so mildly is that I had been on a winter sun holiday just before

I imagine it's more the opposite: a truly terrible diet (over many previous years) would tend to make infection worse. Because that awful diet would go with sedentary lifestyle and other things that contributed to having hypertension, T2DM, obesity, etc.

I don't believe for a moment that any way of eating you start today is going to tend to protect you from severe infection in next year.

Green tea, dark chocolate and muscadine grapes are meant to be helpful
www.drkarafitzgerald.com/2020/12/11/polyphenols-in-green-tea-chocolate-and-other-foods-may-protect-against-covid/

It takes many years and multiple studies to try and find even just a very loose correlation between nutrition and health outcomes. It's very difficult to isolate nutrition especially something as generic as "healthy diet" which can have a very wide range of definitions.

That doesn't mean it won't have an impact just means no one will be able to definitively tell you there is one.

I do wonder if being outside in the fresh air helps, even if you get Covid. I remember someone on here saying going out into her garden every day and having the windows open helped her recover quickly.

I'm sure I've read of some Olympic athletes being very ill, particularly with long covid. I would imagine they have a pretty healthy diet/life style. I'm sure it helps but it won't be a magic protection.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rowing/54702500 This rower is the one I heard about on BBC.

Its certainly not going to do any harm. If only as something to focus on to feel we are doing something positive, and something within our control when so little else is.

I think the more important thing is not to be too overweight.

It seems like some serious complications are more complicated in those who are overweight or obese. I have no idea how much over weight you have to be, but it has given me the kick up the backside I have needed.

@Baileysforchristmas

I do wonder if being outside in the fresh air helps, even if you get Covid. I remember someone on here saying going out into her garden every day and having the windows open helped her recover quickly.

My friend is a covid nurse and said she spent alot of time standing at her back door breathing in fresh air and said it helped.

Op I try to eat healthily. Alot of fruit and veg. Lots of foods are supposed to have anti viral properties which i try to include in meals or smoothies such as ginger, garlic etc. I eat alot of seeds too. I don't think any have been shown to help against covid, but they can't hurt and will improve your overall health. At the first sign of colds i make ginger, lemon and honey tea.