In winter, the temperature drops suddenly, the chill attacks people, the sun is shining, and the qi and blood tend to move inward. Therefore, the diet therapy in winter should focus on maintaining the balance of yin and yang in the body and storing essence to keep out the cold.

1, it is advisable to warm kidney and replenish essence.

Proper intake of nutritious, nourishing kidney and replenishing essence, high-calorie and digestible foods in winter, such as dog meat and mutton, can tonify kidney and benefit qi and improve immunity. Or eat medicated diet, such as beef 200g, fresh yam 250g, decoct in water, add appropriate amount of salt when the meat is cooked, eat meat and drink soup, and benefit the lung and kidney. You can also eat some warm fruits, such as jujube, longan, persimmon, pineapple, litchi, pomegranate, walnut, etc., to replenish blood, tonify kidney and replenish essence, and resist cold evil.

2. Appropriate fruit and vegetable supplements

Winter is the off-season of vegetables, so we should pay attention to eating more vegetables rich in vitamins A, B and C, such as cabbage, radish, carrot, bean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, rape, apples, oranges and canned fruits. Eat foods rich in calcium, iron, sodium and potassium, such as shrimp, shrimp skin, sesame paste, pork liver and bananas.

3, it is appropriate to transport the spleen.

In winter, the temperature drops suddenly, and the spleen is trapped by the cold, and the spleen does not transport. Therefore, the diet therapy in winter should be based on strengthening yang and spleen, nourishing and strengthening. "Deficiency makes up for it, and cold makes it warm", warming spleen and yang, and eating more foods that warm and tonify the spleen, such as japonica rice, lotus seeds, Gordon Euryale seeds and white lentils. Coriander, radish, day lily, oranges and other fruits and vegetables; Eel, silver carp, carp, hairtail, shrimp and other aquatic products.

4. Appropriate dialectical diet therapy

Winter should be based on their own situation, diagnosis of deficiency syndrome, dialectical diet, targeted diet, adhere to the whole winter diet. If you are already sick, it is advisable to choose diet therapy, and it is best to follow the doctor's advice and not blindly diet. For example, diabetics can use yam and Ge Fen as dietotherapy products, but avoid japonica rice and other foods with high sugar content.

Anyone suffering from hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, cholecystitis, gout and other diseases should never eat foods with high protein, fat and sugar, such as soft-shelled turtle, donkey-hide gelatin, longan, bullwhip and deer tendon. Because eating this kind of food will promote the development of the disease, the blood lipid will increase, the blood will be sticky, the uric acid in the blood will increase, and the blood pressure will increase, and the result will get worse and worse.