What food is best for health in winter? Although it is winter, we still have a good choice of ingredients. Therefore, we should choose food scientifically and appropriately, which will play a good role in our health. Let's see how to eat in winter.
Eat healthy food and red and white food in winter.
You can eat more tofu in winter to resist the cold. In winter, except for cold hands and feet, other parts of the body are not so warm, which may be caused by cold syndrome caused by unbalanced nutrition. Girls and middle-aged women who often lose weight and are partial to food are most likely to have insufficient vitamin intake, and vitamin B2 is an important substance to balance human oxygen consumption. Therefore, if you don't want to eat fat, you can eat tofu and burn cabbage if you want to fight a cold yourself. Tofu is rich in vitamin B2, which can reduce the rapid loss of body heat during work and activities, not only help to maintain energy, but also improve cold tolerance.
Eating more red food in winter can prevent colds. In the middle of winter, when the climate is cold and everything is collected, people's physiological functions are in a state of decline, shrinking constantly, and they are easy to catch a cold. Eating red food can enhance the body's resistance and eliminate pathogens, enhance immunity and prevent the invasion of diseases and pathogens.
Red foods such as carrots, red peppers, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, jujubes and amaranth in vegetables are rich in beta carotene, which can not only scavenge human oxygen free radicals, but also participate in the synthesis of vitamin A, which has a strong protective effect on human epithelial tissues and respiratory mucosa, so it can effectively prevent colds.
Eating more white food in winter can prevent dryness. In winter, people are prone to lack of water. According to the principle that five elements correspond to five colors, we might as well eat more "white food" to prevent dryness. When cooking, you can choose white radish, cabbage, wax gourd, lily, tremella, lotus root, lotus seed and so on. Among them, Chinese cabbage and white radish, two popular vegetables, have the best efficacy and are the most economical and practical tonics. Compendium of Materia Medica calls white radish "the most beneficial vegetable". White radish contains many vitamins and minerals, among which the content of vitamin C is 8- 10 times higher than that of pear and apple. Chinese cabbage is rich in vitamin C and vitamin E, which can prevent dry skin caused by heat, and the cellulose contained in it can also promote intestinal peristalsis and prevent constipation.
Eating more than three kinds of food in winter has many benefits.
Winter sugar cane: After winter, many office workers often feel dizzy and sleepy, and their reaction ability decreases. At this time, if you can eat some fruits that can quench your thirst and moisten your throat to dry it, it will help alleviate the above discomfort. Experts suggest that white-collar workers may wish to eat some sugar cane in winter, which can not only enrich blood and moisten dryness, but also refresh their minds. Sugarcane is included in the category of "tonic" in traditional Chinese medicine, because it has the special effects of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, reducing qi and moistening dryness, and tonifying lung and stomach. Sugarcane can "benefit the throat, strengthen the bones and muscles, calm the wind and nourish the blood, and greatly replenish the spleen and yin." Secretary-General Wang Chengsheng said that iron is one of the main raw materials for hematopoiesis, and iron is the first to enrich blood. Sugarcane also contains a lot of essential substances such as iron, calcium, phosphorus, manganese and zinc.
Winter jujube: At present, it is the peak period of winter jujube listing. In order to earn more profits, some unscrupulous traders only need to put the green jujube in a hot water pot at 70-80 degrees Celsius to dry, and then it will gradually start to turn into red dates. In addition, if scalded red dates are soaked in the pool with sodium cyclamate and saccharin, they will become sweet, brittle and gain weight. The peel of winter jujube in the market is reddish to the sunny side until it is completely red, and the color is ochre red. The uncolored side has a milky white background and a bright peel.
Winter melon: Friends who have the above situation may wish to eat some winter melon. The content of dietary fiber in wax gourd is very high, about 0.9g per 100g. Foods with high dietary fiber content have a good effect on improving blood sugar level, and people's blood sugar index is negatively correlated with the dietary fiber content in food. In addition, dietary fiber can also reduce cholesterol and blood lipid and prevent atherosclerosis. Both potassium and sodium affect blood pressure. Eating less sodium salt and supplementing potassium salt is a good way to control hypertension. Wax gourd is high in potassium salt and low in sodium salt, which is a good diet for patients with hypertension.
At the same time, we should pay more attention to the taboos of winter tonic.
Three taboos for tonic in winter
Avoid disease-free tonic: disease-free tonic will not only increase expenses, but also harm the body. If you take too much cod liver oil, it will cause poisoning. Eating glucose for a long time will make you fat. In addition, you can't take more tonics. Eating too much tonics will be harmful.
Avoid eating dog meat blindly: Some people with weak constitution and arthritis are good at eating more dog meat in severe winter. But it is not advisable to eat dog meat blindly, so as not to get rabies after eating rabies meat. Do not drink tea after eating dog meat. This is because tannic acid in tea combines with protein in dog meat to produce a substance. This substance has a certain astringent effect, which can weaken intestinal peristalsis and reduce the moisture in the stool. Therefore, toxic substances and carcinogens in the stool will be easily absorbed by the human body because they stay in the intestine for too long. As we all know, dog meat is a very nourishing food, but we should not eat it casually. For example, if you can't drink tea immediately after eating dog meat, protein can't metabolize it.
Don't be obsessed with tonics: not everyone can drink chicken soup. Chicken soup (including stewed chicken soup and chicken soup cooked with herbs) is rich in nutrition. The nutrients contained in chicken soup are a small amount of water-soluble small molecules dissolved from chicken oil, chicken skin and chicken bones, and its protein is only about 7% of that of chicken, and most of the chicken oil in the soup belongs to saturated fatty acids. People with hyperacidity should not drink chicken soup because chicken soup can stimulate the secretion of gastric acid. Patients with gastric ulcer, hyperacidity or gastrorrhagia generally should not drink chicken soup. People with renal insufficiency should not drink chicken soup. Tonifying should choose the appropriate method according to your own physique, and don't blindly tonic.
It is very important to choose food for winter tonic.