1, attention to details in summer health care
1. Drink more water.
Drink seven or eight cups of boiled water every day, and you can add some honey to the water. In summer, people's physical energy consumption is particularly fast, and honey can quickly replenish the energy needed by the human body. Water is an indispensable part of human body. Organs, muscles, blood, hair, bones and teeth all contain water, and water loss will be more in summer. If you don't replenish water in time, it will seriously affect your health, make your skin dry, increase wrinkles and accelerate human aging. Like honey water, mineral water, herbal tea, milk and apple juice are all ideal thirst-quenching drinks.
Nourish yang qi
"The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic Su Wen Si Qi Diao Ling" said: Xia San Moon, this is called beautiful show, heaven and earth are connected, and everything is gorgeous. Going to bed at night and getting up early, the sun is never tired, which can make people angry, make Huaying put on a show and vent his anger. If they like outdoor, this summer's gas should be the way to keep healthy. In hot summer, many people will suffer from air conditioning disease. People turn on the air conditioner all day long, and the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor can reach more than ten degrees. In addition, a large number of cold drinks with ice will definitely hurt Yang. Therefore, we should pay attention to the living environment not to be too humid, not to eat too much frozen and cold food, not to adjust the air conditioning temperature too low at night, preferably above 26 degrees, and not to spend the night in the open air and cold places.
3. Dietary supplements
In the aspect of diet nourishing, the principle of nourishing and strengthening the spleen, removing summer heat and removing dampness is adopted in hot days. Fat, sweet and hot products should not be eaten, and light and nourishing food should be chosen. Sweet, cool and moist foods: wheat, sorghum, highland barley, tofu, white lentils, black sesame seeds, potatoes, Chinese cabbage, lettuce, asparagus, spinach, wax gourd and watermelon. Foods for invigorating spleen and stomach, nourishing yin and invigorating qi: spinach, lotus root, water bamboo, tomatoes, carrots, eggs, apples, milk, grapes, lotus seeds, mulberries, clams, geese, herring, crucian carp, silver carp and barley flour. Foods for clearing away heat and dampness, clearing away heat and toxic materials: mung bean, broad bean, adzuki bean, soybean, raw radish, eggplant, Chinese cabbage, celery, water chestnut, coix seed, watermelon, wax gourd, loofah, cucumber, wax gourd, bitter gourd, chrysanthemum, lotus leaf and tea.
Potassium supplementation
Sweating more in summer, and more potassium ions are lost with sweat, leading to hypokalemia, which will cause fatigue, dizziness, headache, loss of appetite and other symptoms. The most effective way to prevent potassium deficiency in hot weather is to eat more foods containing potassium. Fresh vegetables and fruits contain more potassium, so you can eat more strawberries, apricots, lychees, peaches and plums. Vegetables include green onions, celery, edamame, etc., and are also rich in potassium. Tea also contains more potassium. Drinking more tea in hot weather can relieve summer heat and supplement potassium, killing two birds with one stone.
Supplement salt and vitamins.
In summer, the human body sweats a lot, and sodium chloride loses a lot. Pay attention to supplementing salt while replenishing water. Drink some salty boiled water every day to keep the acid-base balance and osmotic pressure in the body relatively stable. Nutritionists also suggest that it is best to supplement vitamin B 1, vitamin B2 2 mg and calcium 1 g every day in high temperature season, which can reduce the consumption of sugar and tissue protein in the body and is beneficial to human health. Therefore, we should eat more foods rich in the above nutrients in summer, such as watermelon, cucumber, tomato, beans and their products, animal liver, shrimp skin and so on. You can also drink some juice.
Wear light clothes
Dark clothes will absorb sunlight and make people's body temperature rise and dry; At the same time, mosquitoes have the habit of blackening, and dark colors are easy to attract mosquitoes, especially black.
7. Happiness comes from suffering
Alkaloids contained in bitter food have pharmacological effects such as relieving summer heat, promoting blood circulation and relaxing blood vessels. Eating some bitter food in hot weather can not only clear the heart, relieve annoyance and refresh the mind, but also stimulate the appetite, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach. Bitter gourd: Take its immature fruit as a dish. The mature pulp can be eaten raw, cold, fried and grilled fish. It is fresh and refreshing and has a unique flavor. Bitter gourd has the effects of stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, clearing away heat and pathogenic factors, eliminating fatigue, clearing away heart fire and improving eyesight. In addition, bitter foods such as bitter vegetables, tea, coffee, etc. can also be selected as appropriate. It should be noted that eating bitter food should not be excessive, otherwise it may cause nausea, vomiting and other symptoms.
8. Pay attention to itchy skin
When traveling in summer, when the skin is itchy and dry due to the sun, you can apply a small amount of ointment such as Fusong. Don't burn it with hot water or wash it with alkaline soap, so as not to irritate the skin and aggravate the symptoms.
Tips: The summer health care tips introduced above hope to help everyone. Summer is a season full of joy, so don't spend it in a daze. Be sure to adjust your body and let yourself spend a happy and cool summer!
2. What can't you eat in summer?
First, drink less cold drinks:
The digestion and absorption ability of the spleen and stomach of the elderly gradually decreases, and it will be attacked by damp heat in summer, which will affect the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach. For example, eating cold food and drinking cold drinks will damage the spleen and stomach. Although all kinds of cold drinks can relieve summer heat and reduce fever, they will cause bad stimulation to the digestive tract mucosa, slow down the circulation of gastrointestinal fluids, weaken intestinal peristalsis and even cause convulsions. Therefore, the elderly should drink less cold drinks and eat less cold food. Old people with digestive tract diseases should pay special attention. Drink not too strong hot tea to relieve the heat and fatigue in summer.
Second, eat less meat:
Too much meat fat in the diet of the elderly will cause imbalance in nutritional metabolism, and it is easy to suffer from hypercholesterolemia and hyperlipidemia, which is not conducive to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Especially in the hot summer, eating meat is prone to phlegm fire, and the diet should be based on strengthening the spleen, relieving summer heat and eliminating dampness, such as eating more tofu, crucian carp, watermelon, bitter gourd, mung bean and corn, and trying not to eat indigestible, too greasy and spicy food. Use mung beans, lentils, lotus seeds and lotus leaves. Add glutinous rice and cook porridge together. After cooling, it can strengthen the spleen and stomach and dispel summer heat.
Third, eat less sweets:
Generally speaking, people eat more sweets in summer. Candy has high sugar content and high calories. Old people who eat too much will turn into heat, make a fire, make the body have too much sugar, affect the digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach, cause indigestion, produce loss of appetite, bloating, greasy and tasteless mouth, belching and swallowing acid. Excessive consumption of desserts by the elderly leads to the accumulation of sugar in the body, which is often manifested as obesity and elevated blood lipids, thus affecting cardiopulmonary function and even leading to cardiopulmonary failure. Therefore, you must avoid eating products that are too sweet. A small amount of biscuits, pancakes and other foods with less sugar can be eaten properly.
Fourth, talk about hygiene:
Eat more foods that can clear away heat and promote diuresis. Fresh fruits and vegetables can quench summer heat and quench thirst, and are rich in water-soluble vitamins and trace elements, which helps to maintain the pH balance of body fluids. It is beneficial for the elderly to eat more fruits and vegetables such as watermelon, bitter gourd, peach, dark plum, strawberry, tomato and cucumber. But the fruits and vegetables born in summer must be cleaned to prevent intestinal infectious diseases. Fish, eggs, meat and other foods should be preserved and preserved. Tableware and cookware, such as chopping boards, should be used raw and cooked separately, and should not be mixed, and disinfection should be paid attention to. If possible, you can eat more garlic. Garlic can not only sterilize, but also help digestion, increase appetite and season to relieve summer heat. Bacteria multiply quickly in summer, so food should be cooked and eaten now.
5. Add water and salt:
Sweating in midsummer is easy to cause imbalance of water and salt metabolism in the body, and fully supplementing water is a point that cannot be ignored in the health of middle-aged and elderly people in summer. Water supplement is the basis of dietotherapy and food support. Healthy adults need to replenish at least 2500 ml of water every day to excrete waste from their bodies. The seasoning of vegetables or soup should be slightly salty, which can supplement the salt lost due to sweating. But it should not be too salty, so as not to reduce the function of renal excretion of sodium ions and water, causing hypertension or heart failure.