Paying attention to nourishing yin can get twice the result with half the effort. In addition, the cold weather also makes people's metabolism rise, and skin blood vessels contract and dissipate less heat. So you can add more sorghum flavor in winter, such as stew, boiled fish, hot pot and so on. Specifically,
The key points of dietary health care in winter are as follows:
(1) The dietary principles of eating high-calorie foods to keep out the cold in winter are as follows: 1. Rich nutrition and sufficient calories; Second, things should be warm, which helps to protect the yang of the human body. Under the guidance of this theory, Chinese medicine has summarized some cold-proof foods, such as mutton in meat,
Beef, ham, chicken, dog meat; Pepper, pepper, garlic, ginger, mushrooms, leeks and leeks in vegetables; Walnut, longan, chestnut, jujube, preserved apricot, litchi, orange, grapefruit, pine nuts, etc. Fruit not only supplements enough nutrition, but also protects the yang of the human body, so it will keep warm after eating.
(2) Eat more nourishing food in winter. Although it is refreshing, it is too dry. When the humidity of the weather is only 22%,
Dry lips and dry tongue are inevitable. Dry winter is particularly prone to cough, which is almost always a dry cough, and the treatment method is mainly moistening dryness. In short, when it is dry in winter, everyone should "moisten", such as eating some boiled sugar water (boiled with frozen water in dried tangerine peel and rock sugar for about 2 hours), carrot horseshoe water,
Stewed apples with Chuanbei, etc.
(3) Pay attention to food supplements In order to enhance physical fitness, many people are often used to taking some supplements in winter. Ginseng, velvet antler, donkey-hide gelatin, astragalus, etc. are of course beneficial to human body, but if taken improperly, they often bring some side effects. If properly supplemented, it is economical and has no side effects. So,
Winter tonic should first follow the principle that "medicine tonic is not as good as food tonic".
If the elderly usually have no obvious chronic diseases and normal digestive function, then they should eat some complementary foods with strong nourishing effect and easy digestion in winter according to their hobbies, economic conditions and environment. For example, soybean food, walnuts, corn porridge, green leafy vegetables,
Give priority to with sweet potato (sweet potato) and yam, add some animal food such as mutton, shrimp, duck and crab. In addition, honey, tremella, longan pulp, fungi (such as mushrooms, etc. ) you can also eat it in moderation according to your personal hobbies and physical reactions.
You can also take the following simple prescriptions according to the symptoms:
(1) Mutton Mutton is braised or stewed with onion, ginger, yellow wine and soy sauce, and eaten in moderation at each meal. Has the effects of warming middle warmer, invigorating spleen and stimulating appetite. Is suitable for asthenia, stomach cold, postpartum weakness,
Patients with tracheitis, asthma, tuberculosis, hemoptysis, anemia and all deficiency-cold syndrome.
(2) 65438 red dates +00 red dates, cooking soup, every day 1 time. Or 1 black dates, steamed, once a day 1 time. Has the effects of nourishing blood, invigorating qi, invigorating spleen, regulating stomach, quenching thirst, promoting salivation, and strengthening body constitution. Is suitable for chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, asthenia, hepatitis anemia,
Thrombocytopenic purpura.
(3) Auricularia auricula: soak 3-5g of Auricularia auricula in warm water, and then add rock sugar for stewing. I love you. Health experts advocate drinking porridge for health in winter. For example, people drink mutton porridge, red date porridge, radish porridge and corn porridge in the early morning of winter, red bean porridge on the solstice of winter and "Laba porridge" on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
The habit of eating "eight-treasure porridge" on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month. Drinking porridge is a very good dietary form in China's food culture, which embodies the good collocation of staple food and non-staple food and is easy to digest and absorb. Of course, this diet is also suitable for other seasons.
Especially in summer.
Winter is also a season with frequent chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes and respiratory diseases. Therefore, in this season, we should pay more attention to a balanced diet, but also pay attention to keeping warm, living moderately and getting enough sleep. Don't put on thick clothes immediately because you are afraid of the cold in winter, and don't stay in an air-conditioned room all day to enjoy the warmth of air conditioning. The best way is to get yourself moving. In the bleak winter, go for a run and climb mountains, and at the same time, let yourself get more sunshine. Sunshine can not only bring warmth, but also dry seasonal melancholy, which is directly related to the shortening of sunshine time.
In addition, avoid eating cold food in winter and don't sleep with your head covered. Soaking feet with warm water every day and wearing shoes with good hygroscopicity are also very important health care habits.