"Huangdi Neijing" tells a truth: the amount of food is just to replenish qi, and eating too much hurts the body; Too strong a taste is harmful to health, and light a taste can refresh you. Lao Tzu also said in the Tao Te Ching that eating too much delicious food hurts the stomach. The second is to look at the nature of food and the needs of the body. Everything that can be eaten is sexual, and it is inseparable from the five attributes of cold, heat, warmth, coolness and flatness. When the body is hot, it will be cold, and when it is cold, it will be hot. Such as: stomach heat, should eat cold bananas; Drink hot ginger soup when your stomach is cold. If you eat backwards, you will get sick. For example, the climate between beginning of autumn and the autumnal equinox is hot and dry every year, so it is not suitable for spicy food, which may easily lead to fever in the stomach and large intestine, deafness and tinnitus.
Eating fruit properly is nutrition, but eating it improperly is harmful to your health. Don't eat fruit when the spleen and stomach are weak and relaxed, and eat more fruit when you are full of energy and dry.
2. Eat more beef and mutton and less seafood.
After beginning of winter, people should still follow the principle of nourishing yin in autumn and winter, and eat some foods that nourish yin and suppress yang, such as mulberry, longan, soft-shelled turtle and black fungus.
Eat more foods with higher calories, eat more fresh vegetables to avoid vitamin deficiency, and eat more foods with high content of protein, vitamins and cellulose. Beef, mutton, black-bone chicken, soybean milk, milk, radish, vegetables, fungus, tofu, celery, white radish, potatoes, Chinese cabbage, spinach, apples and longan are all suitable diets after beginning of winter. In addition, you can eat more nuts in winter. Nuts refer to oily seed foods, such as peanuts, walnuts, chestnuts, hazelnuts and almonds. At the same time, we should eat less cold foods such as seafood, do not eat foods with high fat and salt, and eat foods with high fat and sugar. If you want diet therapy, you can eat black sesame porridge, Cordyceps old duck soup and so on. , can nourish liver and kidney, nourish yin and help yang.
3, mainly to increase heat.
The cold climate in winter affects the endocrine system of human body, which increases the secretion of thyroxine and adrenaline, thus promoting and accelerating the decomposition of protein, fat and carbohydrate, increasing the body's cold-proof ability, thus causing excessive loss of heat. Therefore, winter nutrition should focus on increasing heat energy. You can eat more lean meat, eggs, fish, milk, beans and foods rich in carbohydrates and fats.
4. Pay attention to vitamin supplementation
Winter is the off-season for vegetables. Therefore, after a winter, people often have vitamin deficiency, such as vitamin C deficiency, which leads to oral ulcers, root swelling and pain, bleeding, constipation and other symptoms. Then people can eat some potatoes properly, such as sweet potatoes and potatoes. They are all rich in vitamin C, vitamin B and vitamin A, and red sweet potatoes also contain more carotene. Eating more potatoes can not only supplement vitamins, but also clear the fire. In addition to Chinese cabbage, cabbage, radish heart, white radish, carrot, bean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, rape and so on. It should also be selected in the main course listed in winter. These vegetables are rich in vitamins, so it is necessary to change varieties frequently and mix them reasonably to supplement the human body's demand for vitamins.
5, don't blindly "tonic"
At the same time of tonic in winter, it should be noted that in order to adapt the stomach, it is best to supplement it in advance. Generally speaking, you can choose to stew beef and red dates, peanuts and brown sugar first, or cook some ginger and jujube beef soup to adjust the function of the spleen and stomach. Drinking hot porridge in winter is also a good choice for health. For example, eating "Laba porridge" helps to increase calories and nutritional functions. Cereal porridge has the function of nourishing the heart and removing annoyance, sesame porridge can nourish essence and yin, radish porridge can help digestion and phlegm, walnut porridge can nourish yin and solidify essence, Poria porridge can replenish spleen and stomach, jujube porridge can nourish qi and yin and so on.