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Look for yoghurt that contains live active cultures indicating helpful bacteria and try to eat one every day for breakfast or dessert, or use live yoghurt in salad dressings, smoothies and dips.

A live natural yoghurt per day might help keep infections at bay. That’s because these yoghurts contain probiotics – bacteria that stimulate immunity cells in the gastrointestinal tract (GI). Normal, healthy bacteria that colonise the GI tract help you resist bad bacteria and detoxify harmful substances. In addition to their protective effect in the GI tract, probiotics may also help stimulate immune-cell production system-wide. In a recent study of 33 women from the University of Vienna, those who ate yoghurt daily for two weeks raised their immune-boosting T-lymphocyte cell count by nearly 30 per cent. (See ‘Part Three, pages 217–19 for advice on taking probiotic supplements.)