Healthy food in winter
1, preventing colds: lettuce and cauliflower
The vitamin C content of cauliflower is 3-4 times higher than that of Chinese cabbage and soybean sprouts, and 2 times higher than that of citrus. Chinese medicine has always said that "white goes into the lungs." Cabbage flower is a timely health care vegetable, which can not only prevent respiratory diseases such as colds, but also be a very good vascular cleaner. The iodine content in lettuce is high, which is beneficial to the basic metabolism and physical development of human body. The nutrition of lettuce leaves is much higher than that of lettuce stems. People who cough easily in autumn can eat lettuce leaves to relieve cough.
2, no acne on the face: lettuce and bitter gourd
Lettuce is rich in vitamins, trace elements and high in water content. Eating more helps to replenish water to the panel, and also has a certain auxiliary treatment effect on acne caused by poor gastrointestinal function. Bitter gourd is rich in crude fiber, vitamin C, calcium, iron and other nutrients, which can eliminate toxins in the body and help detoxify.
3. Avoid indigestion: leek and coriander.
Leek is rich in carotene, protein, sulfide and dietary crude fiber. Eating leeks can help digestion, promote stagnation, remove accumulated food, strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite. Coriander has a unique fragrance, which can stimulate appetite and promote digestion. Proper consumption of coriander can relieve stomach pain, indigestion and other symptoms.
Dongtian healthy soup
1, bird's nest stewed with rock sugar
Materials: blood swallow 15g, medlar 6g, coix seed 10g, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Production: first pick out the impurities in bird's nest, soak them in clear water and clean them for later use. Wash medlar and coix seed with clear water. Then put the above three materials into a saucepan, add appropriate amount of water and crystal sugar, cover the lid, and stew for two hours on medium heat until warm.
2, chinese forest frog paste Yuzhu pot water duck
Ingredients: Xuege Cream 10g, Polygonatum odoratum 12g, Coicis Semen 12g, duck meat 100g, ginger 1g, and a little salt.
Production: first remove impurities from the snow clam cream, soak it thoroughly with clear water, and then clean it with clear water for later use. Wash Polygonatum odoratum and Coicis Semen with clear water. Slaughter the duck, gut it, wash the blood with clear water, and cut it into large pieces. All the above things are ready, put them in a casserole together, add a proper amount of water, first cook with strong fire, and then cook with medium fire for an hour and a half. When it gets warm, season it with salt.
Healthy recipes in winter
1, sesame oil mixed with spinach
Ingredients: spinach 1 kg, salt, sesame oil.
Practice: Wash the spinach, blanch it with boiling water, take it out and put it on a plate, add proper amount of salt and drizzle with sesame oil.
Efficacy: dredging pulse, opening chest, regulating qi, quenching thirst and moistening dryness.
2. stewed radish with mutton
Ingredients: 500g of white radish, 250g of mutton, ginger, cooking wine and salt.
Practice: Wash the white radish and mutton and cut them into pieces for later use. Put the right amount of water in the pot and put the mutton in the pot. After boiling for five or six minutes, take out the mutton, pour out the water, then change the water, add the mutton, ginger, cooking wine and salt, stew until half cooked, and put the white radish in the pot to cook until cooked.
Efficacy: Yiqi Buxu, warm in the middle and warm in the lower. It is more suitable for patients with soreness of waist and knees, drowsiness and fatigue, impotence due to kidney deficiency and weakness of spleen and stomach.
Matters needing attention in winter health care
1, eat less cold and drink more porridge soup.
Eating cold food in winter is easy to be bad for the stomach, causing abdominal pain and diarrhea. Therefore, it is also important to pay attention to the selection of appropriate cooking methods. When cooking food, stew, boil, steam and stew as much as possible, which makes it easier to store food nutrition and is beneficial to health.
2. Eat more fruits and vegetables to enhance physical fitness and disease resistance.
Winter is very dry, especially in the north. Because of eating more meat, it is easy to dry stool. Vegetables and fruits are rich in vitamins and minerals, as well as dietary fiber, which can enhance human immunity, improve human adaptability to cold, protect blood vessels, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and prevent constipation.
3, the right amount of supplement, so far.
Winter is cold, sunshine time is shortened, people's outdoor activities are reduced, and vitamin D deficiency is prone to occur. Pay attention to eating foods rich in calcium and vitamin D, such as milk, bean products, seafood and animal liver. Fresh vegetables and fruits available in winter are not as rich as those in summer and autumn, and some vitamins and minerals are easy to obtain. Therefore, you can choose nutritional supplements to supplement the deficiencies in your diet, such as vitamin C and vitamin D.
Health care methods in winter
1, go to bed early and get up late. Huangdi Neijing says that "in winter, in March ... if you want to go to bed early and get up late, you must wait for the sun", which means that you should get up early and get up late in winter, and then do activities after the sun comes out. In the cold winter, it is particularly important to ensure adequate sleep time. From the perspective of traditional health care, increasing sleep time in winter is beneficial to the body's yang storage and savings, and can make the body achieve a healthy state of "Yin and Yang are secrets and God is righteousness".
2. Wash your face with cold water. Cold water can not only prevent colds, but also play the role of beauty beauty and treat chronic rhinitis. If we can combine auricular, Tang Yin, sun, cheek and other acupoints, the effect will be better.
3.drink warm water in the morning. Drinking 1 cup of warm water after washing your face and brushing your teeth can warm your body, clean your stomach, dilute your blood, prevent cerebral thrombosis and myocardial ischemia, maintain cell permeability and promote cell metabolism.
4. Keep your back warm. Pathogens such as wind-cold can easily invade through the back of human body and cause diseases. Old people, children and the infirm should pay attention to keeping their backs warm in winter so as not to hurt the sun.