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lorriman wrote:
Some immune system tips: avoid polyunsaturated oils, also omega 3; they are potent immuno-suppressors; you'll have to learn to make your own mayo out of light olive oil but it's easy when you know how, and reduce your nut intake. Makes your own cakes with butter not oils (victoria sponge is dead easy and dead delicious when still warm). Omega 3 isn't needed if you avoid omega 6 which is nasty stuff anyway: see wikipedia on the subject. Eat liver that has not been frozen (for vitamin A in it's most absorbeable form; coloured veg is very inferiour for this purpose), and get 20minutes of midday sun for the vitamin D (non-sun sources of D are not worth the trouble). A & D are the immune vitamins but they deplete each other so must be taken together. Forget C: it's turned out to be entirely bogus. Eat plenty of meat.
As a corollary to that another excellent method is to avoid feeding
bacteria by moderately low-carbing and avoiding sugar (including sugar-rich fruit and juice - grapefruit, blueberrys, strawberrys etc are fine). All these things can looked up on pubmed (the US government medical publications pool).
Do all the above and you'll have gone 90% towards eating like a hunter-gatherer.
For energy: salts accompanied by vitamin B1. that means common salt, magnesium, potassium (losalt will do), calcium. It's not for nothing the french drink so much mineral water. Also 90% of ancient spas are magnesium wells (I counted them up) which should tell you something. Evian is magnesium-rich.
Finally: though I'm not certain in terms of the immune system it's probably best to avoid margarines and other hardened veg oils and use butter and animal fats instead. The medical world has swung away from marge back to butter of late: statistically marge is looking as awful as veg oils. Also I would avoid all those weird anti-cholesterol potions. I recommend eating plenty of animal fat: goose fat if you are afraid because of the old heart disease advice against animal fat. the general rule is : avoid what is unnatural, unnatural quantities or unnatural to us. Unhappily the moderation proverb simply doesn't work when it comes to modern food-stuffs. We haven't yet adapted to farming let alone the industrial diet (for example the fats not found in nature that are present in marge).
For some bizzare reason I find wheat-based foods and sugar important in causing common-cold symptoms. That's my own 1 person sample-size contribution to medical science. I doubt it'll have any effect on TB though.
I'm not a medical professional but I used to use pubmed a lot to get the facts for myself after I discovered that "eating fat makes you fat" was barely even a half truth (animal fat not only causes satiety but also raises metabolism)....Show more →
I simply try to eat sensibly: As much as possible fruits, vegetables, fish and meat and as less as possible things which were processed a lot or which have a lot of fat/salt. And there's also the issue of exercises, which will have to wait for a few months. 
Happy shooting,
Yakim.
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