How to eat healthily in spring
1, balanced nutrition
From the perspective of dietary science, the relative proportion of protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals should be maintained in spring to prevent overeating and avoid abnormal liver function and bile secretion.
2, nourishing the liver
Chinese medicine believes that nourishing yang in spring is very important for nourishing the liver. Patients with hypertension and coronary heart disease should pay more attention to aphrodisiac in spring. Moreover, spring is the peak season for bacteria and viruses, and the liver has the function of detoxification, which is the heaviest burden. And because people's liver qi rises, it will also cause the recurrence of old diseases. For example, the rise of liver fire in spring will make the weak lung yin more virtual, then tuberculosis will take advantage of it. At the same time, if you don't keep in good health in spring, it's easy to hurt your liver qi. In order to adapt to the change of seasonal climate and maintain human health, we should pay attention to nourishing the liver first in diet conditioning.
Step 3 nourish yang
Huangdi Neijing puts forward that "nourishing yang in spring and summer", and it is advisable to eat more foods that warm and tonify yang, so as to enrich human yang and resist the invasion of evil spirits. On the other hand, because kidney yang is the foundation of human yang, supplementing yang in diet should also include warming and tonifying kidney yang. Eat more things that nourish kidney yang in your diet. Onion, garlic and leek are all good products for nourishing yang.
4, less acid and more sweet
Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, said: "It is advisable to keep sour and sweeten in spring to nourish the temper." Strong liver qi in spring will affect the spleen, so it is easy to weaken the spleen and stomach in spring; Eating more sour food will
The liver function is high, and the diet should be nursed back to health in spring. Choose spicy and sweet products, such as red dates and honey, to avoid being acidic.
5. Lighting
At this time, the diet should be warm and light, and the diet should be warm and avoid cold. Eat less high-fat foods such as fat, because greasy foods are prone to satiety and fatigue. People with cold stomach can often eat ginger to drive away cold and warm stomach; Asthma patients can take some ginger honey water to moisten dryness and relieve asthma; Patients with chronic bronchitis should fast or eat less spicy food.
Step 6 drink plenty of water
Drinking water can increase the circulating blood volume, which is beneficial to nourishing the liver and excreting metabolic waste, and can reduce the damage of poisons to the liver. In addition, hydration is also beneficial to gland secretion, especially the secretion of digestive juices such as bile. Drinking scented tea in spring is helpful to dispel the cold evil accumulated in the body in winter, promote the hair growth of human yang, and stagnate and evacuate. Moderate drinking tea can also refresh you, but don't be greedy for cold drinks in spring.
7. Eat more vegetables
After winter, most people will have insufficient intake of vitamins, inorganic salts and trace elements, such as stomatitis, angular stomatitis, glossitis, night blindness and some skin diseases in spring. Therefore, with the arrival of spring and the listing of a large number of fresh vegetables, people must eat more fresh vegetables in order to have a balanced nutrition and good health.
2. What appetizers do you eat in spring?
First, stir-fry lentils and yam porridge.
Ingredients: lentil10g, yam150g, salt.
Exercise:
1. Peel and wash the yam, and then cut it into small pieces for later use. Finally, it can be fried until golden brown.
2. Wash lentils, put them into the pot together with the cut yam, add water to boil, add seasoning after rolling, and serve.
Efficacy: spleen and stomach. 60 grams of fried lentils, 60 grams of yam and 50 grams of rice are cooked into porridge, and children are halved.
Second, Chenpi Baizhu Pork Belly Soup
Ingredients: 6 grams of dried tangerine peel, 30 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, half of fresh pork belly or 1 piece, 6 grams of Amomum villosum, and 5 slices of ginger.
Methods: First, the pork belly was degreased, put into boiling water to remove fishy smell, and the white film was scraped off. Wash Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Atractylodis Rhizoma, Fructus Amomi and Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens with clear water. Then put all the ingredients into the soup pot, boil and simmer for 2 hours.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen and appetizing. It is especially suitable for people with abdominal distension, loss of appetite and indigestion.
Third, Chinese cabbage tofu soup.
Ingredients: 2000g cabbage heart, a piece of frozen tofu, red and green sweet pepper100g, boiled cucumber juice, salt and chicken essence.
Method: Cut the Chinese cabbage and red bell pepper into 4 cm long filaments. Marinate shredded Chinese cabbage, red bell pepper and frozen tofu with refined salt for 20 minutes, control off the salt water and add monosodium glutamate and cucumber juice. When the water in the pot is boiled, pour in the above materials, add salt and chicken essence.
Efficacy: promote peristalsis of intestinal wall, help digestion, prevent dry stool, promote defecation and dilute enterotoxin, which can not only treat constipation, but also help nutrient absorption.
Fourth, osmanthus porridge
Ingredients: 50g of japonica rice, 2g of osmanthus heart and 2g of poria cocos.
Methods: Wash the japonica rice. Put osmanthus fragrans and Poria into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire, then simmer for 20 minutes, and filter residue to leave juice. Put the japonica rice and soup into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire, and then cook with slow fire until the rice is rotten into porridge. Take it once a day 1 time for breakfast and dinner.
Efficacy: regulate the stomach and promote digestion of the stomach.
Five, tomato sparerib soup
Ingredients: 500g small row, 250g tomato, 40g tomato sauce.
Method: After blanching the ribs, add appropriate amount of boiling water, add ginger slices, ribs and cooking wine. When the ribs are cooked, add tomatoes, ketchup and salt and stew for a while.
Efficacy: It can promote gastric juice secretion, help digestion and regulate gastrointestinal function.
Six, fruit yam
Ingredients: 250g yam, banana 1 root, half an apple, 2 kiwis, 8 cherry tomatoes, and proper amount of pure milk.
Making:
1. Wash and peel the yam, cut into pieces, put it in a bowl and steam for about half an hour until it becomes soft and easy to pound;
2. Peel bananas, kiwis and apples and cut them into pieces. Wash the cherry tomatoes and cut them into small pieces.
3. Mash the steamed yam with a spoon, add a small amount of pure milk and stir well. Spread the fruit on the yam and steam for about 5 minutes.
Efficacy: Used in various fruits, it can supplement vitamins and minerals in a balanced way. Yam can strengthen the spleen and stomach, benefit the lungs and kidneys, and make up for deficiency.