Healthy eating

Well,it's obviously a must. I remember reading something over the last year about some form of fermented goulashy type dish maybe helping the immune system when attacked by a virus, in this case birds with bird flu. I've been thinking about it a bit today because obviously my mind is going over what's best to eat at the moment and wondered if there was any substance in the report because I haven't seen anything about it since the story first came out.

I'd thought about adding spices to my cooking anyway hopefully as an aid to my immune system while it's at a low point and remembering about that article made me wonder if you really could boost it up a bit with herbs and spices. There'd been a front page story in The Independent yesterday too about the shortage of the spice they use to make the anti viral drug that could possibly help protect against lung damage in the event that the expected flu pandemic will be a dangerous mutation. All the things combined, that first article, then the Independent's article yesterday and my limited knowledge of the effects of some spices as tonics for the body and possible anti bacterials just made me wonder if I can help my own immune system back to health with a bit of creative cooking.