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Should a healthy diet in the long summer be more sour and less bitter?
1. Eat more "sterilized" vegetables.

Summer is a season of frequent human diseases, especially intestinal infectious diseases. Eating more "sterilized" vegetables can prevent diseases.

This kind of vegetables include: garlic, onion, leek, green onion and so on. These onion and garlic vegetables are rich in broad-spectrum fungicides, which can kill and inhibit various cocci, bacilli, fungi and viruses. Among them, the most prominent role is garlic, which is best eaten raw.

2. Summer diet should be low in fat, salt, multivitamins and light.

People sweat a lot and have poor appetite. You can use various nutritious health porridge to stimulate appetite and regulate your body. For example, eating porridge for breakfast and dinner and soup for lunch can not only quench thirst, relieve summer heat, but also nourish the body. Add some lotus leaves (called lotus leaf porridge) when cooking porridge, which tastes fragrant and slightly bitter in porridge. It has the functions of invigorating spleen and appetizing, dispelling summer heat, nourishing stomach and clearing intestines, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Add some mung beans when cooking porridge or soup with mung beans alone, which has the functions of relieving summer heat and quenching thirst, clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting fluid production and diuresis.

Light, wax gourd, tomato, etc.

At the same time, we should also pay attention to supplement some nutrients.

(1) Supplement sufficient vitamins.

For example, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes, green peppers, wax gourd, watermelon, bayberry, wax gourd, peaches and pears;

(2) supplementing water and inorganic salts

Pay special attention to the supplement of potassium, beans or bean products, fruits and vegetables are good sources of potassium. Eat more foods that clear away heat and promote diuresis, such as watermelon, bitter gourd, peach, ebony, strawberry, tomato and cucumber.

(3) protein should be supplemented appropriately.

Such as fish, lean meat, eggs, milk and beans are the best quality protein.