1. Correct breakfast
In spring, the metabolism of the human body is strong, and people obviously feel that they wake up early in the morning. Now people generally sleep late at night, so there will be a phenomenon of poor sleep. It's not good for northerners to eat more noodles and fried dough sticks. This often makes people sleepy for a long time. Breakfast should be based on high-protein food (a bag of milk, an egg and porridge), and drink a little tea to refresh yourself. Most southerners have this habit.
Vitamin supplement
Authoritative nutrition experts point out that vitamin A deficiency is easy to cause respiratory and digestive tract infections, and once a cold or diarrhea occurs, the level of vitamin A in the body will further decline. Vitamin A deficiency can also reduce the body's antibody response, leading to decreased immune function. The protective effect of vitamin A on respiratory tract and gastrointestinal mucosa has been widely confirmed. Supplementing vitamin A from food is a safe and effective health care method. Among many foods, carrots are the best way to supplement vitamin A. So when spring comes, you must eat more foods containing vitamins such as carrots.
Step 3 eat more edible fungi
Spring diet should be light, eat more vegetables and some edible fungi, such as black fungus, tremella, mushrooms, mushrooms and so on. Spring is a time when viruses appear frequently, and many viruses will enter your body. Eating more edible fungi can increase your antiviral ability.
-Spring diet recuperation
"Spring should be the way to keep fit". For people, we should pay more attention to diet and aftercare in spring to keep healthy.
The temperature changes greatly in spring, so the nutrients in spring should be mainly high in calories. Because hot and cold stimulation will accelerate the decomposition of protein in the body, leading to the decline of body resistance, it is necessary to supplement high-quality protein food, such as eggs, fish, chicken and bean products.
In spring, bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms begin to multiply in large numbers, and their vitality is enhanced, which is easy to invade the human body and cause diseases. Therefore, you should take enough vitamins and inorganic salts in your diet. Fresh vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, rape, bell pepper and tomato, and fruits such as citrus and lemon are rich in vitamin C, which has antiviral effect. Yellow-green vegetables such as carrots and amaranth are rich in vitamin A, which can protect and strengthen epithelial cells of upper respiratory mucosa and respiratory organs, thus resisting various pathogenic factors. Food rich in vitamin E should also be eaten to improve human immune function and enhance the body's disease resistance. This kind of food includes sesame, blue cabbage and cauliflower.
Chinese medicine also believes that "acid should be preserved and sweetened in spring to nourish the temper". This is because the liver qi is the strongest in spring, which will affect the spleen, so it is easy to be weak in the spleen and stomach in spring. Eating more sour food will make liver function hyperfunction, so the diet in spring should be nursed back to health, so it is advisable to choose spicy and warm products and avoid acidity. Diet should be light and delicious, avoid greasy, cold and irritating food.
Spring health "when you need food supplements." However, according to the characteristics of the gradual increase of human yang in spring, we must choose a flat and clear diet to avoid backfiring.
Nutritionists believe that middle-aged and elderly people with premature aging, people suffering from various chronic diseases, people with thin bodies, people with backache, dizziness, sallow complexion and listlessness can make use of this season of spring to choose appropriate food supplements according to their own physique and illness, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing and treating diseases.
Older people with the above situation can take a plain diet. Foods with this effect are: buckwheat, barley and other cereals, beans such as soybean milk and red beans, fruits such as oranges and apples, sesame seeds and walnuts, which can be taken for a long time.
If the elderly have internal heat due to yin deficiency, they can choose the method of clearing and replenishing. This kind of food includes: pear, lotus root, shepherd's purse, lily and so on. This kind of food is cold, and it has the function of clearing away heat and diminishing inflammation after eating, which is helpful to improve bad physique. Generally speaking, the tonic for the sick or recovered elderly should be mainly cool, light, delicious and digestible, and rice porridge, lotus seed porridge, green vegetable paste and pork floss can be selected.
Chinese medicine believes that "a hundred herbs germinate and all diseases break out", which means that spring is easy to relapse. Because it is warm and windy in spring, it is suitable for the reproduction and spread of microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses. Therefore, there are many exogenous factors in spring, which should be paid more attention to for the elderly who are weak.
Facts have proved that in spring, anyone with hyperactivity of liver yang is particularly prone to headache and dizziness, which is the reason why Chinese medicine has long pointed out that "all diseases in spring are at the head". Modern medicine also found that climate change in spring can easily raise people's blood pressure, causing headaches, dizziness, insomnia and other symptoms. The diet prevention method is to eat 250-500 grams of bananas or oranges every day, because bananas contain potassium ions, which can lower blood pressure. In addition, regular consumption of lemon, pear and mung bean with more potassium is also beneficial to the prevention and treatment of hypertension.
Gastric and duodenal ulcer diseases are also prone to occur in spring. Avoid eating pork soup, chicken soup, fish soup, beef soup, spinach, beans, animal offal and irritating condiments rich in creatine, purine and other substances, because these foods have a strong effect of stimulating gastric juice secretion or forming gas to produce abdominal distension, which increases the gastrointestinal burden. Diet prevention, honey therapy can be used. After steaming honey water, take it on an empty stomach before meals, daily 100 ml, and take it three times. Or use 250 ml of milk, boil it, add 50 g of honey and 6 g of bletilla striata, and mix well before drinking. These all have the effect of nourishing yin and benefiting the stomach.
Compared with winter, midsummer is actually more likely to make people sleepy, and it is also easier to bury various diseases.
This is because, with the increase of temperature, the metabolism of human body is vigorous, and the burden of human organs is aggravated, so they will compete with each other for nutrients in the body to maintain the normal operation of their own functions, leading to nutrient deficiency and the decline of some organs. High temperature and high fever lead to lack of sleep, loss of appetite and insufficient nutrition supply. When the internal and external affairs are difficult, the human body will feel tired and its resistance will drop, leading to the occurrence of diseases.
At this time, people who are tired, weak and sick need proper supplements to keep fit and spend the summer safely.
What supplements are suitable as "tonic" materials? Wild tortoise shell fish has been a top-grade tonic suitable for all seasons since ancient times, and its tonic status is more important in the case of insufficient tonic in summer. In Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen praised it for "strengthening bones and muscles, curing fatigue", and taking it for a long time, "strengthening the body without tendons, benefiting qi and increasing wisdom".
What's more commendable is that if wild soft-shelled turtle and soft-shelled turtle are used together, harmonious pharmacological complementation can be achieved between different parts of the body, and different parts can exert the overall summer tonic effect according to different summer symptoms. For example:
Nail fish nourishes yin deficiency and has a good effect on fatigue and listlessness in summer;
Tortoise shell nourishes yin and subdues yang, which is aimed at diseases such as excessive deficiency fire and hepatosplenomegaly in summer;
When the salty taste of tortoise blood enters the kidney, it can not only strengthen the body, but also prevent and treat the common hot flashes in summer and effectively improve immunity. ...
How to make up the body in autumn
When autumn comes, the air will become drier and drier. Simply drinking tea water can't meet the body's needs. In this special season, we should not only replenish water, but also maintain health.
According to the theory of TCM health preservation, liver and health preservation should be given priority to in spring; Summer should be nourished by the heart, and long summer should be changed by the spleen; Raise your lungs in autumn; Tonifying the kidney in winter. Autumn is a harvest season and a good time for people to recuperate. Keeping in good health in autumn can enhance the adaptability of human body to the cold climate after autumn and enhance physical fitness.
According to the characteristics of dry weather in season, we should follow the way of health preservation.