China's food culture has a long history. Every place has its own unique food, from a province to a county, there are unexpected foods hidden. Especially after the broadcast of "China on the Tip of the Tongue", we learned about the profoundness of China's food culture, and there is a profound cultural connotation behind every food. Eating and keeping healthy is one of the most popular food cultures. Diet regimen actually originated from Chinese medicine and is an important traditional theory of Chinese medicine. On the basis of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, future generations continue to make in-depth research and use modern medicine to explore the ingredients contained in each food and its influence on health, thus making diet health care more scientific and practical. There are thousands of books about how to keep healthy through diet, and there are countless related articles on the internet, which can be seen everywhere. Although the quality of the articles is uneven, there are also many excellent products. Then, is it possible to do it according to the health-preserving recipe, and can it really achieve the purpose of health preservation? Actually, it's not. According to the holistic concept of traditional Chinese medicine, the human body and nature are inseparable, and changes in nature affect the human body at any time. In the process of actively adapting to and transforming nature, human beings maintain normal life activities. Then, diet and health preservation must be coordinated with human body, nature and environment in order to achieve the purpose of health preservation. Next, I will tell you a few problems that must be paid attention to in diet and health care. Diet and Four Seasons are recorded in Huangdi Neijing, a classic Chinese medicine book. ""against the qi of spring, less yang is not born, and liver qi changes internally. Contrary to summer, the sun is not long and the heart is hollow. Contrary to autumn qi, the Taiyin fails to collect, and the lung qi is full. Going against the winter qi, not hiding less yin, and kidney qi sinking alone show that the four seasons have their natural laws, and health care should abide by these laws. If you go against the qi of the four seasons, there will be visceral diseases such as liver, heart, lung and kidney. And the diet should naturally conform to the "four seasons of qi." According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, in spring, liver yang and liver fire often rise with spring qi. At this time, you should eat more liver-clearing products such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetables, tomatoes, mung beans, mung bean sprouts, bean sprouts, celery and cabbage, and avoid spicy * * * and fried barbecue foods to avoid aggravating your anger. Summer is easy to cause intense heart fire, irritability, loss of appetite and other symptoms. Therefore, in summer, we should eat more products that nourish the heart and soothe the nerves, such as millet, corn, beans, wax gourd, bitter gourd, celery, asparagus, pumpkin, banana and apple. In addition, it is hot in summer, and it is easy to be damp and hot. You should eat more products that strengthen the spleen, relieve summer heat and eliminate dampness, such as mung bean porridge and bean porridge. Autumn should be in the lungs, and the weather is dry. Pay attention to protecting the lungs this season, because it is easy to get pneumonia and bronchitis in autumn. Drink more tea in autumn and eat foods that moisten the lungs, such as Sydney, tremella, yam, lotus root, lily and radish. In addition, as the weather gets colder and colder, you can eat some ginger, onion and other foods to prevent colds. In winter, it should be in the kidney. In winter, the yang of the human body is suppressed, and the physiological activities of the human body also converge. So it is very important to tonify the kidney at this time. In diet, we should always pay attention to the nursed back to health of the kidneys, pay attention to the supplement of calories, and eat more animal foods and beans, such as mutton, duck, soybeans, walnuts, chestnuts, fungus, sesame seeds and sweet potatoes. China has a vast territory, which leads to great differences in food culture and various cuisines. Among them, the southern cuisines have obvious advantages, such as Cantonese cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine and hangzhou dishes, while there are almost no independent cuisines in the north, which is also caused by the rough food style in the north. As the saying goes, food culture in different regions also brings different health conditions. Huangdi Neijing also contains the relationship between geographical environment, diet and health preservation. Therefore, the eastern territory is the place where heaven and earth were born. The land of fish and salt, the seaside near the water, its people eat fish and love salt, all live in their own places, happy. Fish makes people warm, salt beats blood, so people are black and slippery. """northerners, heaven and earth hidden domain also, together. Its land is high, the air is cold and ice-cold, its folk music is wild, dirty and cold, and its treatment is suitable for moxibustion ... "(There are three areas in the west, south and middle, which are not listed here). The relationship between geographical environment, eating habits and diseases in five areas of China was expounded. Northwest and northeast regions have a cold climate and dry air, and the food is mostly beef and mutton. Cooking methods are mostly barbecue and deep-frying, with high calories. While resisting the cold, it will also generate too much heat. Therefore, we should often use some products that nourish yin and moisten dryness, such as lily, tremella, Sydney and honey. The south is hot, and the diet is mainly fish and vegetables, which is light and low in calories and can cope with the hot weather. In addition, due to sweating in the summer heat, drinking more soup can supplement the lack of water when sweating. Southwest China is humid, so the diet should be mainly dry and wet, and you can eat more spicy products, such as coix seed, wax gourd, lentils, winter bamboo shoots, corn and so on. Different regions need different health recipes, so they must be different. Dietary health with the growth of age, the requirements for diet are also different, because the human body is undergoing subtle changes with the growth of age, and the structure and characteristics of the body will become different. Huangdi Neijing also has physiological changes of men and women at different ages, including 7 years for women and 8 years for men. The body grows and develops rapidly in adolescence, so the diet should be based on balanced nutrition, eat more high-quality protein, such as milk, fish and eggs, and pay attention to the intake of vegetables, which are rich in vitamins and minerals and are indispensable for human growth and metabolism. When people reach middle age, the body has passed its peak and began to decline gradually. At this time, we should pay attention to special nutrition collocation and learn to add and subtract diet in order to delay the aging of the body and prevent diseases. The specific dietotherapy method is as follows: 1. Supplement vitamins and trace elements, such as magnesium, zinc, iron, vitamin C and vitamin B, and eat more kiwifruit, berries, citrus fruits, green vegetables, nuts, seed foods, whole wheat foods and seafood. Second, control food intake. Because metabolism slows down in middle age, it is easy to gain weight. When you can't ensure enough exercise, you need to control your food intake to control your weight. There are many diseases caused by obesity, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, osteoarthropathy, fatty liver, metabolic syndrome and nephropathy. Therefore, we must control food intake while ensuring food nutrition, and try not to fry and bake. If you are hungry, you can use protein and fiber food to maintain satiety. Third, get rid of bad eating habits, and the disease focuses on prevention. The onset of many chronic diseases is not accidental, but caused by years of bad living habits, which requires us to take precautions in advance, and entering middle age is the best time for prevention. Eating habits include eating taste preference, eating time and special eating habits. As we all know, too much salt intake can easily lead to hypertension, and too much sugar and alcohol intake can easily lead to diabetes. Smoking will not only damage the lungs, but also damage the blood vessels of the whole body. Eating time also has a great influence on health. First of all, eat breakfast early. After a night's sleep, I am on an empty stomach in the morning, and I need to replenish energy to maintain my daily activities during the day. If you eat too late, the digestion and absorption of diet will take a process, which will make people lack energy, poor spirit, inattention and even hypoglycemia, thus affecting their work status. Secondly, you can't eat too late at night. Because of the high pressure of middle-aged work, I often need to work overtime and get off work very late, which will form the habit of eating supper at night. About every 2 ~ 3 days, during the gastrointestinal rest, the epithelial cells of gastric mucosa will be updated at night. Eating dinner too late, the gastrointestinal tract can not be rested, and the gastric mucosa can not be repaired in time. In the long run, it is easy to form gastrointestinal diseases. Eating dinner too late is also easy to form stones. The main component of stones is calcium. The calcium contained in food is excreted from urine except that part of it is absorbed and utilized by intestinal wall. Eating too late means that the time for eating and sleeping is shortened, and the peak of calcium excretion is just 4 ~ 5 hours after meals. If you go to bed after a meal, the urine will not be discharged in time, and a large amount of calcium in the urine will be deposited, which may lead to kidney, ureter, bladder and urethra stones for a long time. The diet in old age is relatively simple. The elderly have low immunity, poor gastrointestinal digestive function, light diet, and pay attention to the intake of trace elements such as calcium, iron and zinc. Of course, the intake of protein is also essential. Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the overall concept, syndrome differentiation and treatment, and so should health diet. Health care can not only rely on simple recipes, but also conform to the four seasons, geographical environment and age. Only by combining these points and achieving harmony and unity can we really play a role in health preservation. After all, who doesn't want to enjoy good food while staying healthy? # I am a chef in the palace # Disclaimer: The above content comes from the Internet, and the copyright belongs to the original author. If there is any infringement of your original copyright, please let us know and we will delete the relevant content as soon as possible.