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8 Foods that can improve your immunity

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                                                                Are you often susceptible to sickness or unhealthy frequently? A huge number of people in all life stages including; children, adolescents, adults, pregnant women, and the elderly tend to be prone to a wide range of diseases and infections for a certain period of time. The immune system is a complex defense network that protects body against potentially harmful agents and has the capacity to respond to millions of antigens. Through three particular jobs, immunity protects the body. Firstly, by stopping pathogens from entering the body, killing bacteria or viruses once they enter the body but before they make you sick, and finally destroying viruses and/or bacteria after they have created disease. Unbelievably, we are what we eat! Proper nutrition is a critical determinant of immune responses while malnutrition is considered as the first cause of weaker immunity and its deficiency in all life stages. Both under-nutriti