Are there any foods or nutrients that help with allergy attacks and sinus infections?
A diet with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables will provide vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients to support one’s immune status and reduce the effects of allergy attacks or sinus infections. I also like good, old-fashioned chicken soup to relieve an otherwise miserable condition. My wife says that the combination of peas and mushrooms provides all nine essential amino acids. Are there other vegetable combinations that do the same? This question points to days past when food combining was promoted by those on vegetarian diets to assure adequate protein status. Beans and grains combined provide all essential amino acids needed by our bodies. We have since come to understand that when one has adequate calories from a variety of foods, it is not necessary to worry about combining vegetables. We also have a source of amino acids from our protein pool supplied by recycling blood cells, the lining of our digestive tract, and other tissues replaced on a day-to-day basis. I am thirteen we
