What health food do you eat on Lantern Festival?
1, eat dumplings
On the Lantern Festival, southerners eat glutinous rice balls mainly to pray for the whole family to be round and round. The glutinous rice used to make glutinous rice balls is flat in nature and sweet in taste, and has the functions of tonifying deficiency, regulating blood, invigorating spleen and appetizing, benefiting qi and stopping diarrhea, warming middle warmer, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness. In addition, the conventional fillings of various glutinous rice balls are mainly fruits and dried fruits, including sesame seeds, walnuts and peanuts, and vegetable oil has a "higher" nutritional value. Boiling jiaozi in water is the easiest way and the healthiest way to eat it.
Step 2 Eat jiaozi
On the Lantern Festival, southerners like to eat jiaozi, while northerners have the habit of eating jiaozi, such as Henan. So jiaozi is also a kind of food that Yuanxiao often eats. Jiaozi is a folk food with a long history in China, which is deeply loved by ordinary people. Of course, jiaozi is not the only food for the Lantern Festival.
Step 3 eat jujube cake
People in western Henan like to eat jujube cakes on the Lantern Festival, which means good luck. Jujube cake was originally the imperial cake of Qing Dynasty. It is sweet and fragrant, and contains vitamin C, protein, calcium, iron, vitamins and other nutrients, which can not only replenish the spleen and stomach, but also benefit qi and promote fluid production. It also has the functions of protecting the liver, increasing muscle strength, beautifying and preventing aging.
In the collocation of glutinous rice products, we can consider more ingredients with high nutritional value, low energy and low fat, especially glutinous rice products with miscellaneous grains as the main component are often more suitable for modern people.
Take Yuanxiao as an example, because it contains glutinous rice flour, it can be eaten as a staple food; Its various fillings are rich, such as jujube paste stuffing, nut stuffing, bean paste stuffing, fresh meat stuffing and so on. Therefore, when buying Yuanxiao, we should try our best to choose different tastes and complement each other in nutrition, so as to really and effectively improve the nutritional value of food.
When making food with glutinous rice as the main raw material, in addition to the traditional eating method, you can also add fruit and vegetable juice to glutinous rice flour to make colorful Yuanxiao, which is not only attractive in color, but also more nutritious.
Health strategy of Lantern Festival
1, suitable "spring cover"
Although the coldest winter has passed and spring has come, the work of keeping warm cannot be relaxed. During this period, the weather is changeable, and it is also one of the seasons with the most cold waves throughout the year. We often say that "cold in late spring" is the best example, and its cold degree is not worse than that in winter, not to mention the folk saying that "cold in spring freezes cattle".
So even if the temperature rises in spring, don't take off your clothes, it should be as thick as winter, and it must continue to be covered in spring to prevent colds in spring, and don't let your body catch cold and get sick. What's more, flu is more popular during the Spring Festival. Many people do not catch a cold in winter, but catch a cold in spring. This shows that the work of cold prevention and warmth preservation has been neglected, which has caused harm to their health. This also shows the importance of the "spring cover".
2. Exercise properly.
It's still very cold during the Lantern Festival, but it's already spring, and the temperature will slowly rise. At this time, it is necessary to do proper exercise. Proper exercise can help improve the body's immunity, thus laying a good foundation for the body and preventing colds and diseases.
However, it is worth noting that it is still very cold, so you should keep warm when exercising, and even take a shower and change clothes if you sweat. If you feel too cold outside, you can do some simple exercise indoors to exercise, or you can do some stretching exercises to wake up your body and improve your body function.
3, should raise the spirit
Spring is a good time to nourish the liver. At this time, spring gas passes through the liver meridian, and the liver is fond of regulating and discharging, and is disgusted with depression. In other words, at this time, we should pay attention to raising our own spirit, so as to achieve the functions of nourishing the liver, conditioning the body and mind, and promoting good health.
In winter, many people are inevitably depressed, but spring is the season when everything wakes up and returns to the earth. At this time, people's emotions and spirits will be improved. At this time, it is very helpful to seize the opportunity to raise the spirit.
If you want to cultivate your spirit, you should be less angry, less sad, less thinking, less jealous and so on. And you should be calm and cultivate your own nature. Only in this way can you make your liver qi smooth, benefit your body and mind and lay a good foundation for your health.
Dietotherapy benefits of eating glutinous rice balls in Lantern Festival
1. Eating glutinous rice balls in Lantern Festival not only means celebrating family reunion, but also has the health-preserving effects of keeping out the cold, nourishing the spleen and stomach and benefiting the lungs.
2. The material of Yuanxiao Tangyuan is mainly glutinous rice. "Compendium of Materia Medica" points out that glutinous rice is a valley for nourishing the spleen and stomach and benefiting the lungs. Glutinous rice is sweet and warm, which can nourish human blood and spleen and stomach after eating. The coldest winter is March 9, although it has passed now, the weather is warm and cold, and stomach gas is most likely to be lost in cold days.
3. The ancients wrapped zongzi on the fifteenth day of the first month during the Lantern Festival. Tangyuan is not only sticky glutinous rice, but also easy to cook and will not spread out, and because glutinous rice has the characteristics of keeping out the cold.
4. Eating zongzi on the Lantern Festival will warm the spleen and stomach, and people's breath will become quite smooth, which will make the whole body warm and play a role in keeping out the cold, especially suitable for those with spleen and stomach deficiency.
5. In addition, glutinous rice is rich in nutrients such as protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron and nicotinic acid. It can be said that glutinous rice balls are just a kind of warm food.