Dietary health care should be based on a balanced diet of five flavors, and according to individual specific circumstances, eat more sweet, light and moist foods, which can not only replenish the spleen and stomach, but also moisten the lungs and intestines, and prevent dry throat. Fruits include pears, persimmons, water chestnuts and bananas. Vegetables include carrots, wax gourd, lotus root, tremella and beans, fungi, kelp and seaweed. Eat warm food for breakfast, and it is best to drink hot medicinal porridge, because both japonica rice and glutinous rice have good functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach and invigorating the middle qi, such as sugarcane porridge, Yuzhu porridge, Adenophora adenophora porridge, raw porridge, Yuzhu porridge and so on. Middle-aged and elderly people and patients with chronic diseases should eat more red dates, lotus seeds, yams, ducks, fish, meat and other foods.

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