1, common sense of diet health in summer
1, the diet is mainly light.
It is advisable to eat light, bitter, cold, nutritious and digestible food in summer. Don't eat sticky food, so as not to interfere with gastrointestinal digestion. At the same time, don't be too full and hungry. Summer is very hot, hot and humid. Eating bitter food can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite. Such as cucumber, cold tomato, sweet and sour "Heart Beauty", old vinegar peanut, cold radish skin, cold lettuce and mashed garlic eggplant are all good cold dishes.
2, melons should drink more water.
Nature has its own rules. In hot weather, people will sweat a lot and lose a lot of water. In summer, melons are rich in water. Among many vegetables, melons contain more water than vegetables, and the water content is as high as 90%. From April to May, cucumber, towel gourd and bitter gourd will be listed one after another, and the price will be relatively cheap. These seasonal vegetables are very delicious.
3, more cooked food, less colds
In summer, people often like to eat fruits, seafood and other foods raw. It is worth noting that the temperature is high in summer, and all kinds of germs and parasites are easy to breed. If you don't pay attention to food hygiene, especially eating unsanitary food in the "three noes" booth, you are likely to get sick.
4. Be jealous
Sweat more in hot days, but also be jealous, improve the concentration of gastric acid, help digestion and absorption, and promote appetite. Vinegar also has a strong bacteriostatic ability, and has a preventive effect on intestinal infectious diseases such as typhoid fever and dysentery. People are prone to fatigue, drowsiness and discomfort in hot weather. Being jealous is beneficial to relieve fatigue and maintain abundant energy.
5. Pay attention to potassium supplementation
Sweating more in summer, and more potassium ions are lost with sweat, leading to hypokalemia, which can cause fatigue, dizziness, headache, loss of appetite, heatstroke and other symptoms. The most effective way to prevent potassium deficiency in hot weather is to eat more foods containing potassium. Fresh fruits and vegetables (such as celery, edamame, bananas, etc. ) contains a lot of potassium. Tea also contains more potassium. Drinking more tea in hot weather can relieve summer heat and supplement potassium, killing two birds with one stone.
Step 6 add some bitter food
Alkaloids contained in bitter food have pharmacological effects such as relieving summer heat, promoting blood circulation and relaxing blood vessels. Eating bitter foods such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetables, beer, tea, coffee and cocoa in hot weather can not only clear the heart and relieve annoyance, but also stimulate appetite, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach.
7. Drink more porridge in summer
Generally speaking, the whole summer diet should be light and less greasy, and eating some peppers in moderation will help sweating, promote digestion and increase appetite; It is suitable to drink more porridge in summer. For breakfast and dinner, you can drink mung bean porridge for tonifying kidney and eliminating edema, lotus seed porridge for invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, lotus leaf porridge for clearing stomach and moistening intestines, lily porridge for moistening lung and relieving cough, nourishing heart and calming nerves or tremella porridge and astragalus porridge.
8. Vitamin supplements
Nutritionists suggest that it is best to supplement vitamin B 1 and B22mg, vitamin C 50mg and calcium 1 g every day in high temperature season, which can reduce the consumption of sugar and tissue protein in the body and is beneficial to health. You can also eat more nutritious foods, such as watermelon, cucumber, tomato, beans and their products, animal liver and kidney, shrimp skin and so on. And you can drink some juice.
9. Drink plenty of water if you lose water.
Drink more water in summer, warm water is better. Drink seven or eight cups of boiled water every day. The body should keep and replenish water at any time. Water plays a vital role in the human body, maintaining the normal physiological functions of the human body. There will be more water loss in summer. If you don't replenish water in time, it will seriously affect your health, make your skin dry and wrinkles increase, and accelerate your aging.
10, cold drinks should be moderate.
In summer, the temperature lasts around 30 degrees, and my body is thirsty like fire. But be careful not to drink iced drinks such as iced tea and iced coffee. Once you drink too much iced drinks, your blood vessels will contract rapidly, leading to slow metabolism and weight gain. When eating cold drinks, you can't eat too much at a time, otherwise there will be adverse reactions. Children will have abdominal pain at this time, and middle-aged and elderly people are prone to angina pectoris. Normal people may have gastroenteritis, laryngeal spasm, malnutrition, and may also damage teeth.
2. Cool food in summer
1, wax gourd. Winter melon is cold in nature, and its pulp has the effects of diuresis, clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and quenching thirst, and can also be used to treat edema, phlegm and asthma, summer heat and hemorrhoids. Using wax gourd, lotus leaf and coix seed to make soup can clear away damp heat. However, people with spleen and stomach weakness, yang deficiency and yin deficiency should not take it.
2, loofah. Chinese medicine believes that loofah is cool and sweet, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood to stop bleeding, dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation, beautifying and resisting cancer. Long-term consumption or use of towel gourd liquid to wipe the face can also make people's skin smooth and delicate, with special effects of anti-wrinkle, anti-inflammation, prevention and elimination of acne and melanosis. People with chronic diseases, spleen and stomach weakness and indigestion should eat less.
3, bitter gourd. It contains momordicin and bitter rosin and has a unique bitter taste. It can dispel summer-heat, clear the heart, and dispel summer-heat, and has a good curative effect on stomach heat, damp-heat dysentery, vomiting and diarrhea, and hematuria. Bitter gourd also helps to control blood sugar, prevent diabetes, prevent fat absorption and help to lose weight. But pregnant women should eat less bitter gourd. In addition, people with low blood pressure and blood sugar and deficiency of spleen and stomach should not eat more.