DELAY BREAKFAST TO BOLSTER YOUR IMMUNITY

Although a healthy breakfast is a great opportunity to boost your fruit and vegetable intake, you could speed your weight-loss success and also enhance your immune system by getting into a habit of intermittent fasting.

Studies show that stretching out the periods of time when your body doesn’t have to be involved with processing food gives it a chance to rest and repair, which is very useful for bolstering immunity. This also gives the lining of your gut, which takes a bashing during the day, more time to repair itself. It’s a bit like trying to repair a motorway; you can’t do it while cars are driving up and down in the day, so you have to wait till night-time and close it down. This process helps to reduce inflammation throughout the body (which is a sign of a malfunctioning immune system). You can choose one or both of these methods, which work well together:

5:2 – cut your calorie intake to 800 on two days a week, then eat healthily on the other five days.

TRE or ‘time restricted eating’ – extend your natural night-time fast to 10-12 hours by eating within a restricted time window. Many people find the easiest way for this is to delay or even skip breakfast.