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a write up on “The Best Meal During Lockdown”.​

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Life in a lockdown is not easy to adjust to and can have you very underprepared for changes you’ll have to make to your routine. While we are keeping ourselves safe at home, it can get difficult to keep yourself healthy because of an irregular schedule. Here’s an activity that will help you in all aspects - boosting your immunity. Here is how you can make the best of your time during home isolation and take care of your nutritional intake and boost your immunity.

Social distancing and staying at home will keep us away from the antigens (bacteria or virus) present in the environment outside that could infect us. Our immune system is our body’s defense mechanism. When these antigens enter our body, our immune system recognizes and kills them. Lymphocytes (a type of white blood cells) when triggered, play a very important role to form antibodies. These antibodies remain in our body to recognize the antigens if we are attacked again in the future.

With all the family members at home, some even having generations staying together, it might look challenging to cook all day and also make your meals equally nutritious. Breakfast, lunch and dinner should still remain the major meals of the day. Here are few simple changes that could help provide you with the required balanced meals at home to boost everyone’s immunity.

By Dr. Meghana Pasi, Nutrition Consultant with Arogya World's MyThali program