Health porridge for the elderly in winter
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Ingredients: buckwheat, coix seed, black rice, Gordon Euryale seed, peeled mung bean, brown rice, red bean, wheat kernel, polished rice, jujube and longan.
Practice: Wash buckwheat, coix seed, black rice, Gordon Euryale seed, peeled mung bean, brown rice, red beans and wheat kernels, and soak them in clear water for two hours. Longan is shelled. Wash red dates and japonica rice for later use. Put the above raw materials together in a pressure cooker, add 1500ML water, cover the pressure valve, and turn off the fire after the fire is sprayed. Wait until all the air is exhausted, then open fire and cook until the air blows, and then turn off the fire. Just spray it three times. If you like sweets, you can add sugar when eating, but it is best to use brown sugar, which has the best effect of enriching blood and benefiting qi.
Walnut porridge
Ingredients: round glutinous rice 1 cup, walnut kernel 75g, seasoning water 8 cups, rock sugar 1 12g.
Practice: Wash the round glutinous rice, soak it in 8 cups of water for 20 minutes, move it to the fire to boil, and cook it on low heat until the rice grains are cooked and soft. Wash walnuts, put them in porridge and cook them together, and add rock sugar to taste. After the crystal sugar melts, turn off the fire and serve.
Black rice eight-treasure porridge
Ingredients: black glutinous rice 100g, 50g of red bean, mung bean, coix seed, lotus seed, longan, lily and jujube, and a little brown sugar rice wine.
Practice: After washing red beans, mung beans and coix seed, soak them in clear water for one night. Cook red beans, mung beans, coix seed and lotus seeds first, and then add black rice to cook porridge. This kind of porridge is sweet and delicious, rich in nutrition and suitable for all ages.
Health food for the elderly
Blueberries: The compounds in blueberries help reduce inflammation and oxidative damage, thus improving memory and limb flexibility in old age.
Lentinus edodes: Lentinus edodes contains a variety of vitamins and minerals, more than 50 enzymes, free amino acids, choline and so on. , can inhibit the synthesis of cholesterol in the body, promote the decomposition and excretion of cholesterol, and prevent the increase of blood lipids.
Sweet potato: Sweet potato has a strong effect on lowering blood cholesterol, maintaining blood acid-base balance, delaying aging and preventing cancer. Sweet potato is rich in dietary fiber and gum, which can be described as "intestinal scavenger".
Red wine: moderate drinking can prevent heart disease, diabetes and memory loss. Although any wine can play such a role, red wine is the best, because resveratrol in red wine can activate factors that control cell aging, thus delaying aging and making people younger.
food
1. Dog meat: Dog meat contains more taurine and peptides, but little fat. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dog meat is warm, has the effects of tonifying kidney, helping yang and dispelling cold, and has a good effect on low back pain, chills, nocturnal polyuria and calorie increase.
2. Perch: Perch is rich in digestible protein, fat, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, copper, iron and selenium. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that perch is warm and sweet, and has the functions of invigorating spleen and stomach, nourishing liver and kidney, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. In winter, perch is fat and pleasant, and the fish is delicate, which is the best season to eat perch.
3. Milk: Milk is one of the best sources of human nutrition. Protein contains 9 essential amino acids; Fat particles are small and highly dispersed, so the digestibility is high; The carbohydrate in milk is mainly lactose, which is beneficial to the reproduction of lactic acid bacteria and inhibits the growth of spoilage bacteria. Chinese medicine believes that milk is sweet and flat, and has the functions of nourishing the body, promoting fluid production and moistening the intestines, and quenching thirst. Pay special attention to calcium supplementation in winter. Calcium in milk is not only rich, but also easy to be absorbed.
taboo
1, you can't scratch the panel, and you can't scratch it with your hands when you feel itchy all over because of dryness in winter, otherwise it will easily scratch the panel and cause seasonal infection. The prevention and treatment methods are to drink more water, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, eat less hot and sour food, drink less, take a bath frequently and change underwear frequently.
When your lips are dry, you can't lick them. When the lips are dry, you can't lick them with your tongue to increase moisture, because saliva is secreted by salivary glands, which contains amylase and other substances. Very sticky, licking your lips is like getting a layer of paste, so it will look drier. When your lips are dry, you can wash them with hot water and apply a layer of balsam.
3, hands and feet are frozen and cannot be baked. Exposing hands and feet for a long time in winter causes blood vessels to contract and blood flow to decrease. If you bake it with fire immediately after freezing, the blood vessels will be paralyzed and lose their contractility. Therefore, the frozen hands and feet can only be gently rubbed and slowly returned to normal temperature.