Many people think that eating walnuts is good, and jujube enriches the blood. The combination of the two will definitely have a better effect, but is this really the case? Let's analyze it from all angles.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, walnuts are sweet and warm, and enter the kidneys, lungs and intestines. Generally, it has the effects of tonifying kidney, strengthening waist, warming lung, moistening intestine, relaxing bowels, enriching blood and benefiting qi. The ancient book Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing also listed walnuts as the top grade to prolong life, and Chinese medicine also has the theory that "the kidney governs the bone, produces marrow and leads the brain". But in the pharmacopoeia from ancient times to the present, the main function of Shitao is to treat kidney deficiency, not to nourish the brain!
However, Chinese medicine believes that jujube is sweet and warm, belonging to the spleen and stomach meridian, and has the effects of tonifying deficiency and benefiting qi, invigorating spleen and stomach, nourishing blood and calming the nerves. Regular consumption has the effect of nourishing qi and blood. Traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions are also commonly used for women's menstrual pain, palace cold, physical weakness and so on.
Huangdi Neijing holds that the speed of human aging is actually determined by the kidney, and the viscera that determines the kidney is the spleen. Walnut tonifies the kidney, jujube tonifies the spleen, tonifies the kidney and tonifies the spleen, then the purpose of health preservation is achieved.
Many studies have found that walnuts contain many nutrients, such as fat and protein. Among them, linoleic acid glyceride and linolenic acid play a role, and linoleic acid glyceride and linolenic acid can maintain cardiovascular health.
For jujube, polysaccharides, flavonoids and saponins are effective active substances, which have the functions of antioxidation, liver protection, tranquilization and anti-anxiety. Besides, jujube is rich in dietary fiber, and eating jujube can also promote digestion.
Therefore, simply speaking, eating walnuts is really good for cardiovascular health and has a laxative effect, while red dates can really protect the liver and promote digestion.
To sum up, "three walnuts and two dates" is really good for health, but no matter the dose, just talking about the curative effect is basically hooliganism.
Walnuts are rich in linoleic acid glycerides, but other fats and calories are also high. Eating walnuts in large quantities for a long time will increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. As reported some time ago, 38-year-old Ms. Chen is pregnant with a second child. She hopes her second treasure can be smarter. She eats ten walnuts every day during pregnancy, which leads to abnormal weight gain and gestational diabetes.
However, if you eat three walnuts a day, the effective substances you can ingest simply can't meet the needs of one day. Moreover, walnuts do not have a very obvious brain-strengthening effect.
For jujube, its sugar content is very high. Eating too much is easy to abdominal distension and acid reflux. If diabetics eat too much, it will even aggravate their condition.
First, you can eat it every day, but there is no need to deify it. Its effect is not so good, and it can be used as a nutritional supplement for daily diet.
Second, pay attention to the food quantity should not be too much. Old people's digestive ability is poor, jujube and walnut are relatively difficult to digest, and eating too much is easy to cause indigestion, so keep a good amount.
Third, salt-fried walnuts and candied dates both taste, but it is not recommended to eat more. Many people think that eating dried dates or walnuts is too weak, so they buy some processed and fried walnut dates, such as the walnut dates that caught fire some time ago, which is basically a gimmick for merchants to sell goods. Moreover, the processed walnut jujube has increased salt and sugar, which is not conducive to health.
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