It’s Flu Season, But This Diet Could Help Combat The Illness

I wish I would've been given this advice before I suffered through it a few weeks ago!

I had gone to the doctor, they gave me the test and it came back positive. I had the flu. For the first time, EVER. And of course, I got it the year I moved away from home! I had no idea how to get over this plague, so Google became my best friend that week. But there's a new study on the block:

Besides bed rest and chicken soup, there's a new way to combat the flu. Scientists at Yale University discovered that switching mice to a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet helped ward off the virus far better than those fed lots of carbs. Publishing their results in the journal Science Immunology, the researchers revealed that the Keto diet kicked up the immune system's response in the lungs to influenza. Co-senior author Akiko Iwasaki from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute called the findings, "unexpected".