principle

The winter diet should follow the principles of "nourishing yin in autumn and winter", "tonifying kidney to prevent cold" and "not disturbing yang", and the diet should mainly nourish yin to suppress yang and increase calories.

Tonify kidney first.

Cold should be in the kidney. Kidney is the motive force of human life and the "innate foundation" of human body. In winter, the yang of the human body is suppressed, and the physiological activities of the human body also converge. At this time, the kidneys should be prepared to maintain the heat expenditure in winter.

Enough energy, but also to store some energy for the coming year, so it is very important to tonify the kidney at this time. In diet, we should always pay attention to the nursed back to health of the kidneys, pay attention to the supplement of calories, eat more animal foods and beans, and supplement vitamins and inorganic salts. Dog meat, mutton, goose, duck, soybean, walnut, chestnut, fungus, sesame, sweet potato and radish are all suitable foods in winter.

Warm food to avoid being too hard.

Sticky food is mostly cloudy, and eating this kind of food in winter is easy to damage the spleen and stomach. Moreover, food overheating is easy to damage the esophagus, and after entering the stomach, it is easy to cause heat accumulation in the body and cause diseases; If the food is too cold, it will easily lead to blood vessels in the spleen and stomach, leading to poor blood flow. However, the decrease of blood volume will seriously affect the blood circulation of other organs and endanger human health. Therefore, the diet in winter should be gentle.

Increase bitterness and reduce saltiness.

In winter, the function of kidney is high. If you eat more salty food, kidney qi will be more abundant, which will greatly hurt the heart, weaken its strength and affect human health. Therefore, eat less salty food in winter to prevent excessive kidney water; Eat more bitter food, nourish the heart and enhance kidney function. Commonly used foods are: betel nut, orange, pig liver, sheep liver, kohlrabi, lettuce, vinegar, tea and so on.