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What do you eat for health in dog days?
Sweet food, cold food or acidic food should be eaten in dog days. The key of dog days diet is the unity of nature and man, and the complementarity of yin and yang.

Chinese medicine believes that "summer dampness should be cleared up." In hot summer, people like cold drinks and drink plenty of water, so that moisture invades the human body, while external moisture enters the body, making water wet and invigorating the spleen, lifting the spleen and stomach, causing digestive dysfunction, stagnant water and loss of appetite. Dampness in summer is very harmful to the spleen, and bitter food has the effect of purging dryness, so it is not advisable to eat more, so it is advisable to eat more sweet and cold or sweet and cold in daily diet. And summer returns to the heart, but the heart likes cold and should be sour, so eat more acidic food in summer. For example, you can often eat some wheat products, such as plums, peaches, olives, pineapples, celery and so on.

Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the unity of heaven and man and the complementarity of yin and yang. Therefore, in summer, people should eat more sour and sweet food and try not to eat spicy and warm food. It is also necessary to avoid eating too many cold drinks, which will harm the healthy qi in the human body and induce diseases.

In cooking, cold salad and stir-fry are the best ways to eat in summer, which can retain the nutrition of vegetables to the greatest extent. With proper amount of vinegar, sauce, onion, ginger, garlic and mustard, it can promote appetite and digestion, inhibit bacteria, reduce blood fat and regulate blood pressure. Watermelon, bitter gourd, wax gourd, cucumber, towel gourd, tomato and other melons and eggplant fruits and vegetables have diuretic and hydrating effects, and are the first choice for summer food. In addition, sleep diet should pay attention to increasing nutrition, food should be easy to digest, eat less greasy and spicy, drink less and smoke less.

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In addition, sweating in summer will cause a large loss of salt, which will reduce the chloride ion reserve necessary for the formation of gastric acid in the blood, thus affecting the formation of hydrochloric acid in gastric juice, which is not conducive to the absorption of iron and calcium, so it is necessary to replenish water and salt in time. Water-replenishing soup tea beverage is a good choice. Soup contains a lot of water and organic salts such as sodium, potassium and magnesium, and tea can refresh the mind and relieve fatigue. But these soups and teas can relieve summer heat best when they are drunk hot, because warm tea can reduce the body surface temperature by 1 ~ 2℃ by relaxing sweat glands, and the effect of relieving summer heat is far better than that of Leng Cha.