Winter is a good time to keep fit. For women, winter diet is particularly important. So how should women eat and keep healthy in winter? I've sorted out the relevant information below, so let's take a look!

Principles of women's winter diet

1, actively tonifying kidney

The pressure of life or work can easily lead to the deficiency of kidney-qi in female friends, because kidney-qi contributes to the metabolism of melanin on the body surface, so dull skin on the body surface must be the performance of kidney-qi deficiency. Then you must make the skin more delicate by supplementing kidney qi.

Chinese medicine believes that tonifying the kidney requires strengthening the spleen. Usually, you can eat more kidney-tonifying things, such as black sesame paste and longan, and you can also cook chicken soup with Polygonum multiflorum or yam. If you have the problem of spleen deficiency, you can also add a little codonopsis pilosula, astragalus root and dried tangerine peel.

2. Supplementing Qi and Deficiency

Women should pay special attention to invigorating qi in autumn and winter. Women with qi deficiency generally show fatigue, pallor, loss of appetite and weak pulse. And even if you just sit and don't exercise, you will always feel breathless.

3, reasonable blood

In autumn and winter, it is easy for female friends to be short of blood because of the outside temperature or diet. The main manifestations are dark yellow complexion, whitish tongue coating, dizziness and fatigue.

You can eat some natural foods with health care function, such as black beans, Nostoc flagelliforme, day lily, longan and so on. You can also drink Siwutang, which is made of Angelica sinensis, Ligusticum Chuanxiong, Paeonia lactiflora and Radix Rehmanniae, to achieve the purpose of nourishing, and it will be better to cook it with Wu Shang chicken. Jujube and medlar are also good things for enriching blood.

4. Warming meridians to dispel cold

The skin color is pale and dull, often livid but bloodless. Women with this type of problem should pay more attention to their diet, because their faces are livid because they usually eat too much cold food, especially staying in air-conditioned rooms in summer, resulting in the so-called palace cold constitution.

To regulate palace cold, we should first warm meridians to dispel cold, so as to improve the constitution of deficiency cold, and finally make the skin rosy and naturally present the whiteness of the panel, which is also the focus of women's winter health tips. Palace cold tonic can take cinnamon, shuttlecock, aconite, asarum and so on. If you are too busy at ordinary times, you can drink hot ginger and brown sugar water directly, which can help you dispel the cold in your body, achieve the purpose of regulating the palace and improve your complexion.

List of healthy food in winter

The first meat: cuttlefish

Regarding eating meat, there has always been a folk saying that "four legs are not as good as two legs, and two legs are not as good as no legs". Cuttlefish is delicious and nutritious. Every100g of meat contains protein13g, and the fat is only 0.7g.. It also contains carbohydrates, vitamins A and B, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other essential substances. It is a nutritious food with high protein and low fat. Eating cuttlefish in autumn is especially nourishing for women.

Squid has the effects of nourishing blood and tonifying kidney, invigorating stomach and regulating qi. Eating cuttlefish in autumn can nourish yin and promote fluid production.

The best way to eat: braise in soy sauce, stir-fry, stir-fry, stew, cold salad and soup, but in order to prevent autumn dryness, cuttlefish is more suitable for soup.

Best collocation: Tofu also belongs to nourishing yin and promoting fluid production. Eating together can complement protein.

The first drink: yellow wine

"Chrysanthemum blossoms, drink yellow wine". Yellow rice wine is a national specialty in China and one of the oldest liquors in the world. It is a comprehensive beverage wine, containing 18 amino acids, which is rare in the world nutritional wine. Yellow rice wine also contains high functional oligosaccharides, which can improve immunity and disease resistance, which is incomparable to wine and beer.

The functional foundation of yellow rice wine is profound. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that yellow wine is hot and bitter, and has therapeutic effects such as dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, warming spleen and stomach, moistening face plate and dispersing moisture.

The best drinking method: warm yellow rice wine, warm stomach and drive away cold. The traditional drinking method of yellow rice wine is to put it in hot water or heat it away from the fire, and it is better to drink it at 35℃-45℃. In the blanching process of yellow rice wine, a very small amount of organic compounds harmful to human health will evaporate with the increase of temperature, thus reducing the harm to the body.

Best match: ebony. In autumn, paying attention to diet is mainly based on "harvest", and matching with ebony just conforms to the concept of "harvest", which has the functions of nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, moistening lung and protecting liver.

The first supplement: yam

Yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which is beneficial to digestion and absorption of spleen and stomach; Yam contains a lot of mucins, vitamins and trace elements, which can effectively prevent the deposition of blood lipids on the blood vessel wall, prevent cardiovascular diseases and prolong life. Chinese medicine also believes that eating yam in autumn has the effects of invigorating spleen and stomach, nourishing kidney and essence, benefiting lung and relieving cough.

The best way to eat: steaming, making soup or frying. Steamed food has the least nutritional loss.

Best match: Lycium barbarum. If you don't eat yam alone, you can cook medlar yam porridge with medlar, which can better play a nourishing role.

First course: lotus root

In winter, it is the time when fresh lotus roots are on the market. At this time, the weather is dry. Eating some lotus roots can nourish yin and clear away heat, moisten dryness and quench thirst, and clear the heart and soothe the nerves. At the same time, lotus root is warm and has the effect of contracting blood vessels. Eating more can moisten the lungs and nourish blood. Lotus root has undoubtedly become a "home cooking" nowadays.

Fresh lotus root not only contains a lot of carbohydrates, but also is rich in protein, vitamins and minerals, and is also rich in dietary fiber, which is very beneficial for treating constipation and promoting the discharge of harmful substances.

The best way to eat: seven-hole lotus root has high starch content, less water, waxy but not brittle, and is suitable for soup; Nine-hole lotus root has high water content, crisp and juicy, and is most suitable for cold salad or stir-frying.

Best match: black and white fungus. With tremella can nourish lung yin, with auricularia can nourish kidney yin.

The first porridge: lily porridge

In winter, due to the dry climate and lack of water in the air, people often have dry nose and mouth, thirst, dry face and even dry lungs and cough. Lily has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, clearing heart and calming nerves, and has become the top grade for winter consumption.

Lily tastes sweet and bitter, and its sex is flat. It is rich in nutrients, including protein, vitamins, carotene and some special effective components, such as starch, polysaccharide, pectin and various alkaloids, which has a certain effect on inhibiting the proliferation of cancer cells.

The best way to eat: cook porridge. There are many ways to eat lily, which can be eaten as a dish, such as celery fried lily and lily fried beef, which can be called delicious food; You can also cook porridge, such as lily porridge made of lily glutinous rice, and put a little rock sugar on it, which is not only delicious, but also can soothe the nerves and help sleep; You can also make soup with lily, lotus seeds and red dates, which can nourish and soothe the nerves.

Best match: almonds. Almonds have the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, clearing heart and calming nerves. Lily porridge is suitable for patients who are weak and have dry cough after illness.

The first fruit: pear

Pear is called "natural mineral water" because it is fresh and juicy, contains 85% water, is sweet and sour, and is rich in vitamins and trace elements such as calcium, phosphorus, iron and iodine. Since ancient times, it has been known as the "Hundred Fruits School".

In autumn and winter, the air is dry and there is little water. If you can insist on eating a certain amount of pears every day, you can relieve autumn dryness, promote fluid production and moisten the lungs.

The chilling degree of different kinds of pears is not exactly the same. For example, the Tianjin Yali pear, Lixiang pear and Gongli pear, which we often eat, are almost cold, while the thick-skinned sand pear and imported pear are even colder.

Best way to eat: Different ways to eat pears can produce different effects, and the effects of eating raw pears and cooked pears are also different. Eating raw pears can obviously relieve symptoms such as dry throat, itching, pain, hoarseness, constipation and red urine in patients with upper respiratory tract infection; Boiled or steamed pears, such as steamed pears with rock sugar, can nourish yin and moisten the lungs, relieve cough and resolve phlegm, and have preventive and therapeutic effects on gout, rheumatism and arthritis, and are also good for cough and sore throat caused by lung heat.

Best match: honey. Pear toffee, which is famous at home and abroad, is made of pears and honey and has obvious curative effect on patients with chronic cough due to lung heat.

The first nut: peanuts

There are bumper harvests in autumn and winter, among which the most Starlight Glimmer peanut is known as "longevity fruit". Eating peanuts often will help. Peanut kernel contains about 26% of protein, twice as much as wheat, and is easily absorbed and utilized by human body. It contains 40% fat, of which unsaturated fatty acids account for more than 80%. The nutritional value of peanuts is higher than that of cereals, and it can be compared with some animal foods such as eggs, milk and meat.

Chinese medicine believes that peanuts are flat and sweet, and enter the spleen and lungs. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating stomach, moistening lung, eliminating phlegm, nourishing and regulating qi, clearing throat and relieving cough. Indications: malnutrition, anorexia, asthenia, dry cough, scanty phlegm, hemoptysis, purple spots on the face, lactation deficiency and dry stool.

Best way to eat: Fresh peanuts are best cooked with shells. Cooked peanuts are not only easy to digest and absorb, but also can make full use of the medical and health care functions of peanut shells and inner red clothes. Peanut red coat can inhibit the dissolution of fibrin, promote platelet regeneration, strengthen the contraction function of capillaries, and can treat thrombocytopenia and prevent and treat hemorrhagic diseases. Peanut shells can lower blood pressure and regulate cholesterol. According to ancient records, peanuts are boiled with salt water, which supplements the middle coke and nourishes the lungs.

Best match: red dates. Using red dates can strengthen the spleen, replenish blood and stop bleeding. It has certain curative effect on anemia due to spleen deficiency, especially for women.