1, health preservation by stages in autumn
In early autumn, the taste of longing should be reduced to spicy and sour to nourish the liver qi. Ancient medical scientists believed that in autumn, the vegetation was scattered, the air was cool, the wind was cold, and the cold was preserved to prevent diseases. At this time, it is appropriate to make up for what has been cultivated to make them angry. "Four Seasons Compilation" contains: "Take Lycium barbarum and soak it in wine to fight aging."
The Mid-Autumn Festival is hot and dry, and it is easy to get tired. At this time, we should eat more fresh food and less greasy food. Secondly, we should eat more foods containing vitamins and protein. Modern medicine believes that autumn dryness should eat more foods containing vitamins A, B, C and E, such as carrots, lotus roots, pears, honey, sesame seeds and fungus, so as to nourish blood and moisten dryness and improve the ability to resist autumn dryness and disease.
In late autumn, the incidence of myocardial infarction increased significantly. Experts point out that the turn of autumn and winter (1 1 month or so) is the peak of myocardial infarction. In patients with hypertension, the blood pressure at the turn of autumn and winter is often about 20 mm Hg higher than that in summer, which is easy to cause coronary circulation disorder. At this time, paying attention to the intake of foods rich in protein, magnesium and calcium in daily diet can effectively prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and cerebrovascular accidents. Don't eat too much, it is advisable to drink a cup of boiled water in the morning to dilute the blood. Drinking more light tea during the day and drinking two or three cups of tea every day has a health care effect on the heart.
2. How to choose complementary food in autumn?
1, choose beef
Pork is too greasy, mutton is warm, and beef is the flattest, which is suitable for everyone's tonic. The consumption of beef in China is second only to that of pork, with high protein, low fat and delicious taste, which is loved by most people. Protein and amino acids in beef are closer to human body than pork.
2, autumn tonic should choose cruciferous cabbage.
First of all, Chinese cabbage has the effect of preventing cancer. Because it contains indole -3- formaldehyde compounds, it belongs to enzymes and has the effect of inhibiting the growth and spread of cancer cells. Secondly, cabbage is cheap and easy to get in autumn, containing about 95% water. When eaten in autumn, it has the functions of clearing away heat, relieving annoyance, quenching thirst and diuresis. Moreover, Chinese cabbage contains a lot of dietary fiber, calcium, iron, potassium and other substances, which can relieve constipation caused by autumn dryness and supplement vitamins and trace elements needed by the human body.
Step 3 choose potatoes
Potatoes are characterized by containing a lot of dietary fiber, carotene, starch, minerals and mucins contained in some potatoes. Yam, as a kind of potato, is a typical sweet food, which not only has other functions of potato, but also has the functions of nourishing spleen and stomach and moistening lung. It is a rare food for moistening lung and tonifying kidney in autumn.