What food should people eat in winter to supplement their body's elegance in order to better replenish their energy and keep fit? The following is what I arranged for you for your reference.

What food is the most beneficial to health in winter?

1. Hawthorn

Hawthorn is the most medicinal and edible fruit with the effect of invigorating stomach and promoting digestion in this season. It is recorded in Materia Medica Xuan Tong in the Ming Dynasty that hawthorn can "eliminate the accumulation of grease"; Compendium of Materia Medica says, "Change diet and eliminate meat accumulation"; "Herbal Rejuvenation" records that hawthorn can "treat spleen deficiency and damp heat, promote digestion, and facilitate urination and defecation". Modern research shows that citric acid in hawthorn can obviously improve the activity of pepsin and enhance the function of digesting protein such as meat. It should be reminded that hawthorn has the functions of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis and uterine contraction. Pregnant women should not eat hawthorn too much to avoid inducing abortion.

2. Chinese yam

Chinese medicine believes that yam is sweet and flat in taste, which can replenish qi without stagnation, nourish yin without dampness, and nourish greasy. It is the most peaceful product for nourishing middle-aged qi, and has always been praised by many doctors, and it can be called the first medicine for strengthening the spleen. Compendium of Materia Medica records "strengthening spleen and stomach and stopping diarrhea". "Jing Yue Quan Shu" says that yam can "strengthen the spleen and tonify deficiency, treat all deficiency and damage, and treat five strains and seven injuries". Modern pharmacology reveals that yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which is helpful to enhance the digestion and absorption function, and can be eaten by people with spleen-yang deficiency or stomach-yin deficiency.

3. chestnuts

Among the five internal organs, the kidney controls water, which belongs to the viscera of yin, and the cold passes through the kidney qi, while the winter is the main order of the kidney qi. At this time, the qi and blood of the human body begin to converge, and the essence needs to be preserved. Therefore, winter health care places special emphasis on nourishing the kidney. This time is especially suitable for eating chestnuts for tonic. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty who is known as the "King of Medicine", recorded in Qian Jin Fang: "Chestnuts are also the fruit of kidney, and kidney disease is suitable for eating." Li Shizhen, a pharmacist in Ming Dynasty, recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Chestnuts can cure kidney deficiency and weakness of waist and legs, and can tonify kidney and replenish qi."

4. Lily

Chinese medicine believes that the cold in autumn and winter is easy to hurt the lungs. Lily is sweet, slightly bitter, has the function of moistening the lungs, and has a good therapeutic effect on lung dryness and cough. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that "the role of lily is to benefit qi and nourish yin, strengthen the body resistance and eliminate evil spirits", so lily is especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly friends to eat regularly.

5.almonds

When pathogenic dryness invades the lungs or the temperature difference is large, the human body is susceptible to pathogenic wind and cold, which induces upper respiratory tract infection and produces symptoms such as cough and asthma. Almonds are the best medicine and food for relieving cough. It can not only relieve cough, but also help to resolve phlegm. "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica" says that almonds "have various smells, so the lung meridians are all cold, but they can cure asthma, cough, constipation, irritability and headache."

6. Jujube kernels

Huangdi Neijing records: "In winter and March, this is called closing Tibet. Get up early and go to bed late, be sure to wait for the sun. " Wang Dongxu, deputy director of the dietotherapy and medicated diet clinic of Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, said that after the start of health preservation in winter, we should pay attention to "keeping good storage", especially to sleep well. Near the end of the year, office workers are often stressed at work, easily upset and insomnia, affecting their physical and mental health, leading to illness in a winter. Ziziphus jujuba seed, also known as Ziziphus jujuba seed, is a classic Chinese medicine for insomnia, because it tastes sweet and has the effect of calming the heart and calming the nerves. Modern research shows that Ziziphus jujuba seeds can inhibit the excitement of the central nervous system and help improve the quality of sleep.

What other health foods are there in winter?

1, eat more warm foods, especially those that warm and tonify kidney yang, and properly regulate your body. Optional food: cereals such as japonica rice, indica rice, corn, wheat, soybeans and peas; Leek, coriander, garlic, radish, day lily and other vegetables; Mutton, dog meat, beef, chicken, eel, carp, silver carp, hairtail, shrimp and other meats; Oranges, coconuts, pineapples, lychees, longan and other fruits.

Old people take 1 small glass of ginseng wine or astragalus wine every morning, which can prevent cold and promote blood circulation. Older people with weak physique often eat stewed chicken, lean meat and tendons in winter, and often drink milk and soybean milk, which can enhance their physique.

2, supplement heat source food, increase heat energy supply. These foods include carbohydrates, fats and protein, especially foods rich in high-quality protein, such as lean meat, chicken and duck, eggs, fish, milk and bean products.

However, we should also pay attention to the intake of fat. Don't eat a fat figure in winter to replenish energy, it's hard to lose weight in summer!

Therefore, everyone must master the quantity flexibly, go to the hospital regularly for health check-ups when necessary, and make clear their physical health status. Don't blindly make up what is missing.

3. Add more foods containing methionine and inorganic salts to improve the body's cold resistance. Methionine can provide a series of methyl groups necessary for cold tolerance by transfer.

The cold climate increases the excretion of creatine in human urine and accelerates the metabolism of fat, while the synthesis of creatine, fatty acids and phospholipids requires the oxidation of methyl in the body to release heat.

Therefore, we should eat more foods containing methionine in winter, such as sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, yeast, dairy products, leafy vegetables and so on.

In addition, medical research shows that people's fear of cold is related to the lack of inorganic salts in their diet. Therefore, we should eat more vegetables with roots in winter, such as carrots, lilies, sweet potatoes, lotus roots, green vegetables and Chinese cabbage.

The content of calcium in human body can directly affect the flexibility and excitability of human heart, blood vessels and muscles, and calcium supplementation can also improve the cold resistance of human body. Foods containing more calcium include milk, bean products, shrimp skin, kelp, Nostoc flagelliforme and sesame sauce.

4. Eat foods rich in vitamin B2, vitamin A and vitamin C to prevent diseases such as angular stomatitis, cheilitis and glossitis. The cold climate has strengthened the oxidation function of human body, and the vitamin metabolism of human body has also changed obviously, which is prone to symptoms such as facial dryness, facial chapping, angular stomatitis and cheilitis.