In cooking, cold salad and stir-fry are the best ways to eat in summer, which can retain the nutrition of vegetables to the greatest extent; With proper amount of vinegar, sauce, onion, ginger, garlic and mustard, it can promote appetite and digestion, inhibit bacteria, reduce blood fat and regulate blood pressure. Watermelon, bitter gourd, wax gourd, cucumber, towel gourd, tomato and other fruits and vegetables have diuretic and hydrating effects and are the first choice for summer food.
In addition, attention should be paid to increasing nutrition in sleep diet. It is advisable to digest food easily, eat less greasy and spicy food, drink less and smoke less.
Life and daily life: obey the law of yang generating and yin eliminating in summer, go to bed late and get up early. It is recommended to go to bed before 10 at night, get up around 6 am and take a nap at noon. Always open the window for ventilation, avoid staying in the air-conditioned room for a long time, and pay attention to sun protection outdoors to avoid heatstroke. Diet care: dog days, spleen and stomach disharmony, bad appetite. You can eat more aquatic plants, such as lotus root, Euryale ferox, yam, Artemisia selengensis, water chestnut and so on. Artemisia selengensis has a good diuretic and appetizing effect. For people who are hot and anxious in summer, you can make tea with lotus plumule to clear your heart and improve insomnia symptoms. Exercise: Don't do strenuous exercise in hot summer, choose more soothing exercise, such as Tai Ji Chuan, Baduanjin, walking and so on. Hydrate properly during exercise and don't take a bath immediately after exercise. In the face of air conditioning, you are easily attacked by the evil of cold and cause a cold. Emotional adjustment: Chinese medicine believes that "the heart and summer qi are in harmony", and the hot summer is the most likely to disturb the mind, causing drowsiness, irritability and sultry. Therefore, in summer, you should nourish your heart and soothe your nerves, and don't be furious to prevent heart disease caused by endogenous heart.