In summer, you sweat a lot, drink a lot of water, your stomach acid is diluted, and your digestive function is weakened, leading to loss of appetite. Therefore, the diet should be light in summer, which can promote appetite and achieve the purpose of health care.

Eat less greasy, bitter and greasy fish and meat, sticky food made of glutinous rice and yellow rice. After eating, people tend to accumulate in the stomach, which will increase the secretion of gastric juice, increase the burden of gastrointestinal tract, affect gastric motility, and appear symptoms such as acid reflux. Eat more bitter food, such as bitter gourd. Eating bitter food in summer can clear away heat and relieve summer heat and increase appetite. At the same time, Chinese medicine believes that sour food can moisten dryness and converge. Sweating hurts yin in summer, and eating acid can stop sweating and diarrhea.

Less spicy and more light, loss of appetite in summer, dull spleen and stomach function. At this time, eating light products will help stimulate appetite, increase food intake, strengthen the spleen and help transport. Some people mistakenly believe that eating some spicy food can stimulate appetite. However, spicy food will stimulate the gastric mucosa, leading to gastritis, gastric ulcer and other diseases. A light diet is not to eat a light vegetarian diet, but to ensure adequate nutrition and supply adequate protein and vitamins.

Eat less warm food. There are differences in sex and taste, and the human body has differences in cold and heat. People with hot constitution should eat less warm food especially in summer. Hot food mainly includes mutton, dog meat, grass carp, longan and coconut.

The digestion and absorption ability of the spleen and stomach of the elderly with less cold products and more warm water gradually decreased. Summer will be invaded by damp heat, which will affect the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach. If you eat cold food and drink cold drinks, it will damage the spleen and stomach, leading to diarrhea and abdominal pain. Pay attention to supplement water and salt. When simply supplementing water and salt, depending on the amount of sweating, the amount of drinking water at one time should not be too much, and a small amount of drinking water can be used for many times, and the water temperature should be 10℃. Porridge and soup are indispensable contents in daily diet, which can supplement the loss of water and salt and are easy to digest and absorb.