According to medical experts, sweet potato has five functions: 1. It nourishes the blood and the middle energizer, and is rich in nutrition; 2. Wide bowel ventilation to promote defecation; 3. Yiqi Jinsheng, enhance immunity; 4. It contains anticancer substances, which can prevent cancer and fight cancer; 5. Anti-aging and prevention of arteriosclerosis.
Doctors say that sweet potato contains a lot of mucin, so it can prevent the atrophy of liver and kidney connective tissue and enhance human immunity. It also has the function of scavenging active oxygen and avoiding cancer induced by active oxygen. Because sweet potato contains more calcium and magnesium, it can prevent osteoporosis.
Tofu, everyone loves it.
Old people generally like to eat tofu. They say: fish make a fire, meat produces phlegm, and cabbage and tofu keep you safe. "Life Taste Diet Spectrum" says: It can be made anywhere, and the rich and the poor are easy to get together. Please consult the vegetarians. You can also eat meat. Those who are frozen with the moon in winter taste You Mei.
The main components of tofu are protein and isoflavones. Tofu has the functions of supplementing qi and deficiency, reducing blood lead concentration, protecting liver and promoting metabolism. Eating tofu regularly is good for health and intellectual development. The elderly often eat tofu, which has a good therapeutic effect on arteriosclerosis and osteoporosis.
Like Chinese cabbage
Chinese cabbage, ordinary dishes, old people, favorite. Mr. Qi Baishi, a master of traditional Chinese painting, has a special painting of Chinese cabbage, which is unique and is the king of Chinese cuisine, and praises that hundreds of dishes are not as good as Chinese cabbage.
Old people often say that eating cabbage for half a year makes the doctor enjoy leisure. Chinese cabbage contains minerals, vitamins, protein, crude fiber, carotene and nitrosamine glycosidase which decomposes carcinogens. From the medicinal efficacy, Chinese cabbage has seven functions, such as nourishing the stomach and benefiting the intestine, relieving hangover and relaxing bowels, reducing blood fat, clearing away heat and preventing cancer.
Don't leave radishes in winter. Longevity old people can't eat radishes in winter. They say: eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, and you will be healthy all year round. Zheng Banqiao, one of the Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou, once wrote a couplet: a jar of water with vegetables, radishes, brown rice and chrysanthemum tea. Radish as tea is Mr. Zheng Lao's way of keeping in good health.
Radish is an out-and-out health food for the elderly. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can eliminate stagnation, digestion, aphonia, hematemesis, epistaxis, thirst and dysentery, headache and urination. Raw food can quench thirst, clear fire, resolve phlegm and relieve asthma, and help digestion. Steamed food can help digestion and strengthen the spleen, and has a nourishing effect.
Carrots are the favorite of the elderly.
Carrots are also the favorite of the elderly.
Carrots are rich in vitamin A and carotene. Studies have shown that carrots can provide various nutrients needed to resist heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis.
Carotene is rarely destroyed at high temperature, easily absorbed by human body, and then converted into vitamin A, so it can treat night blindness and dry eye caused by vitamin A deficiency. Carotene can only be absorbed by human body if it is dissolved in oil. Therefore, experienced old people often slice or fry carrots, so that the preservation rate of carotene can reach more than 79%. The preservation rate of carotene was as high as 95% when sliced and stewed with meat.
Carrots can also promote material exchange in the brain and enhance memory. Eating a plate of fried shredded carrots before reading and studying is conducive to consolidating memory.