1. How to eat and keep healthy in spring
First, don't ignore the cold and wind.
In winter and March, flowers and trees wither and freeze, and the human metabolism slows down accordingly, and the resistance drops, which makes it easy to get sick, especially easy to damage the yang. Don't rush to reduce clothes in spring health care. Suffering from a slight cold is prone to chronic diseases. Because of sudden cooling, blood vessels will spasm, blood will be thick, blood flow will slow down, and organs will be ischemic. So colds, pneumonia, tracheitis, asthma, arthritis, migraine, coronary heart disease and so on will follow. So at this time, health care should be windproof and cold-proof. Clothing styles should be loose and stretched. Pure cotton fabric has good hygroscopicity, warm and close-fitting, and is suitable for underwear. Because the cold winter starts from below, traditional health care advocates that spring clothes should be "thick on the top and thin on the bottom" to play the role of "nourishing yin and nourishing yang". Spring breeze is hidden in the warmth, so it should be wiped off in time after sweating. Don't let the wind blow with your heart open. Proper covering in spring can reduce the occurrence of diseases, especially common respiratory infectious diseases.
Second, diet is the key.
The basic principle of healthy diet during the Spring Festival should be "storing calories". Therefore, we should eat more mutton, dog meat, goose meat, duck meat, radish, walnut, chestnut, sweet potato and so on in winter. It is advisable to choose sweet, warm and delicious food, and avoid greasy, cold, sour, sticky and spicy products to prevent fever and internal heat. Zhang Zhongjing, a health expert in the Han Dynasty, said: "When it is spring, the taste of its diet should be reduced to sour and sweetened, and the diet should not be wasted for a day to nourish its temper." Sun Simiao, the drug king of the Tang Dynasty, also said: "The diet in spring should be sour and sweet, strengthening the spleen and benefiting qi." Therefore, the spring diet should be sweet and less sour.
Third, exercise is very important.
Spring Festival health care exercise is a very important part, and life lies in exercise. Exercise nourishes the body and life nourishes the blood. Regular activities and proper exercise are the secrets of longevity throughout the ages. However, "dynamic" can be divided into active and passive. In order to adapt to the vitality of spring, we should give priority to active exercise and perseverance. Facts have proved that taking part in outdoor activities in winter can make the body get proper cold stimulation, accelerate the heart beating, deepen breathing, strengthen metabolism in the body, increase the heat generated by the body and be beneficial to health. Such as: walking, running, climbing, doing exercises, boxing, playing ball, dancing yangko, kicking flippers, skipping rope, etc. In order to improve blood circulation, improve cardiopulmonary function, get more oxygen, make brain tissue get more blood and oxygen, and make brain tissue adapt to the seasonal changes of blood circulation. Therefore, excessive exercise should be avoided, so as not to sweat and hurt Yang, which is contrary to the purpose of "nourishing Yang in spring and summer".
Fourth, mental recuperation is very beneficial.
The spirit of health care and recuperation during the Spring Festival is very beneficial. In addition to maintaining peace of mind, we should also learn to adjust bad emotions in time when God is hiding in it. When you are in a state of tension, excitement, anxiety and depression, you should restore your mental calm as soon as possible. At this time, we should restrain ourselves from being angry, depressed, open-minded, broad-minded, relaxed, comfortable and natural, and let our emotions "live". The effective way is to get more sunshine, which is a natural therapy to regulate the mood.
2. Precautions for spring diet
Diet should be "clear and white"
It is advisable to eat light food rich in plant protein and vitamins, which can enhance physical fitness and resist the invasion of germs. The foods that should be eaten more are: bamboo shoots, spinach, celery, chicken, eggs, milk and so on. In early spring, the liver qi is strong, which is easy to hurt the spleen. Eating sweets such as jujube and yam in moderation can tonify the spleen, and it is best to eat jujube porridge and yam porridge. Eat less acid when you are scared, because acid will hurt your liver. You should also eat less greasy and spicy products.
Drink a glass of water in the morning.
After being frightened, people are easy to get angry, and it is best to get up in the morning and have a glass of water. Drinking water can help eliminate toxins, maintain the integrity of mucous membranes and help fight infection. It is also wrong to drink boiled water first, and honey water on an empty stomach in the morning, which can help defecate and eliminate waste. In addition, liver-clearing drinks such as green tea, rose tea, chrysanthemum tea, etc. Can remove fire and clear fat, or drink more as appropriate.
Eat more pears.
The season of fright is warm and cold, and the climate is relatively dry, which makes people thirsty and cough due to exogenous factors. Raw pears are cold and sweet, and have the effects of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, nourishing yin and clearing heat. There is a folk custom of eating pears to win by surprise. Pears can be eaten raw, steamed, squeezed, baked or boiled.
Eat less animal fat food.
The diet should be light, greasy foods should be eaten as little as possible, and irritating foods such as peppers, onions and garlic should also be eaten less.
Eat more light food and fresh vegetables rich in plant protein and vitamins.
The weather is obviously warmer, and the diet should be mild. It is necessary to conform to the nature of the liver, help the temper, and make the five internal organs calm. It is advisable to eat more light foods and fresh vegetables rich in protein and vitamins, such as bamboo shoots, spinach, celery, chicken, eggs, milk, duck blood, aloe, radish, bitter gourd, fungus, rape, yam, lotus seeds, tremella and other foods.
New products help Chunyang.
Slightly spicy things, such as onions, ginger, leeks, garlic sprouts and so on. Are all foods that nourish spring. There is a saying in the Tang Dynasty Fang that "it is easy to eat leeks in February and March". Eating these foods in spring is good for human yang.
Less acid, more sweet, better spleen and stomach.
Chinese medicine believes that the liver, one of the five internal organs of the human body, should eat food with stimulating temperature rise in season, while cold and sticky food should be eaten less to avoid hurting the spleen and stomach. Therefore, it is advisable to eat more sweets and less sour food in spring.
Yellow-green vegetables prevent spring drowsiness.
"Spring Sleepiness" makes people tired and depressed. Eat more red, yellow and dark green vegetables, such as carrots, pumpkins, tomatoes, green peppers, celery, etc., which is very beneficial to restore energy and eliminate spring sleep.
Choose food carefully to reduce diseases.
After the temperature rises gradually in spring, bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms also begin to multiply in large numbers, and their vitality is enhanced, which is easy to invade the human body and cause diseases. Therefore, you should take enough vitamins and minerals in your diet. Fresh vegetables such as cabbage, kale and broccoli, and fruits such as citrus and lemon are rich in vitamin C and have antiviral effects. Yellow-green vegetables such as carrots and spinach are rich in vitamin A, which can protect and strengthen epithelial cells of upper respiratory mucosa and respiratory organs, thus resisting various pathogenic factors.
Beware of gastrointestinal diseases
Diseases such as gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer are prone to occur in spring. In diet, we should avoid taking broth, chicken soup, fish soup, animal offal and irritating condiments rich in creatine, purine base and other substances, because these foods have a strong role in stimulating gastric juice secretion or forming gas to produce abdominal distension, which will increase the gastrointestinal burden.
Eliminating phlegm, nourishing lung and ensuring safety.
Chronic bronchitis and bronchitis are also easy to attack in spring. It is advisable to eat more foods with expectorant, spleen-invigorating, kidney-tonifying and lung-nourishing functions, such as loquat, orange, pear, walnut and honey, which will help relieve symptoms.