Drinking porridge in autumn is especially nourishing. In early autumn, after a summer of cold drinks "bombing", it is easy to weaken the spleen and stomach function and reduce immunity. At this time, if you can eat some warm food, especially some medicated porridge made of japonica rice or glutinous rice, it has an excellent function of strengthening the spleen and stomach and tonifying the middle qi. Get up early every day, empty stomach, you can drink a bowl of hot porridge, so that the stomach can be nourished, which will neither increase the burden on the digestive system nor lead to obesity. At the same time, it is also recommended to drink more hot porridge when you have a cold, because drinking porridge can help people sweat, dissipate heat and dispel cold, which can effectively promote the cure of colds. At the same time, most people will lose their appetite after catching a cold, and their gastrointestinal digestive system will be poor. Drinking porridge can promote gastrointestinal absorption. In addition, some drugs are more irritating to the stomach, and drinking porridge can protect the gastric mucosa. Pumpkin porridge is better than rice porridge. After a summer of sunshine and growth, pumpkin is now the best period of nutrition, and pumpkin porridge is now the most suitable porridge for citizens in autumn. Pumpkin porridge belongs to warm porridge. Compared with cold porridge such as preserved egg and lean meat porridge, mild pumpkin porridge is more suitable for the needs of human gastrointestinal warmth in autumn. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, pumpkin porridge is neutral and warm. Drinking pumpkin porridge often has the effects of tonifying the middle energizer, clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving asthma and reducing swelling. Because pumpkin tastes sweet and the weather is dry in autumn, many people will have symptoms such as chapped lips, nosebleeds and dry skin. Chinese medicine believes that autumn dryness is related to body fluid deficiency and lung yang deficiency. Pumpkin porridge has the effect of clearing fire, nourishing stomach and strengthening spleen, and it is combined with some foods that promote fluid production, nourish yin and moisten lung. Old people should not drink porridge every day. There is a saying in China that "old people live longer if they drink porridge". When people are old, the digestive system is declining. Eating porridge properly is really good for digestion, but if you eat it every day, it is not good for your health. Drinking porridge for a long time has the following disadvantages: because it is not necessary to chew slowly, insufficient chewing will accelerate the degradation of chewing organs in the elderly; The fiber content in porridge is low, which is not conducive to detoxification for the elderly. You must chew when you eat. Chewing not only needs to finely divide rice grains with teeth, but also can promote saliva secretion. Enzymes contained in saliva also have a preliminary digestion effect on starch. Without chewing, amylase in saliva can not fully decompose starch in porridge into maltose, thus affecting digestion. Saliva can also neutralize gastric acid and repair gastric mucosa. When drinking porridge, there is almost no need to secrete saliva in the mouth, which is naturally not conducive to protecting the gastric mucosa. Guangdong porridge is not suitable for diabetics. All kinds of porridge shops on the street are doing brisk business. A bowl of porridge ranges from five or six yuan to twenty or thirty yuan, and there are various varieties. But when you go to a restaurant to drink porridge, you should also pay attention to the following nutritional problems. First, keep warm for a long time and lose vitamins. Generally, restaurants cook rice porridge before opening a shop, and then keep it warm in a pot. But if the porridge is kept warm for a few hours, the loss of vitamins will definitely be greater. Second, Cantonese porridge is basically salty porridge, such as the most common preserved egg lean porridge. These fillings are all added with various fish and eggs, which contain more or less salt. Therefore, the total amount of salt obtained by drinking this porridge is quite a lot. According to a bowl of 300 grams of porridge, a bowl of porridge has 3 grams of salt, which is not suitable for patients with hypertension. Because Cantonese porridge is mainly white rice porridge, and the amount of a bowl of porridge is relatively large, it is not suitable for diabetics.