Neijing says that summer nourishes the heart. Because after entering the summer, the heat is pressing, it is easy to get upset and sad, and the appetite will also drop. Therefore, the diet should be light, mainly digestible and vitamin-rich foods, and try to eat less big fish and meat and greasy and spicy foods. Eating more lotus seeds, bean products, chicken, lean meat, sesame seeds and corn, and drinking more milk can not only supplement nutrition, but also play a role in strengthening the heart.

Pay attention to the following two points in diet:

First, nourishing the heart in summer should "increase acid and reduce bitterness"

After the long summer, the change in nature is that the yang is getting longer and the yin is getting weaker. Compared with human viscera, the liver is getting weaker and stronger. At this time, the dietary principle is to increase acid and reduce bitterness, tonify kidney and help liver, and harmonize stomach. When the weather turns hot, people tend to lose body fluids when sweating, so they need to eat sour food, such as tomatoes, lemons, strawberries, ebony, grapes, hawthorn, pineapples, mangoes and kiwis. Their sour taste can stop sweating, diarrhea and dampness, prevent excessive sweating, consume gas and hurt yin, promote fluid production and quench thirst, strengthen stomach and promote digestion.

Second, nourish the heart in summer, eat more and get rid of dampness.

The weather turns hot, sweating more, and the water lost in the body also increases, so eating more light food, such as porridge in the morning and evening and soup for lunch, is an important way to keep fit in summer.

In addition, eating more foods that clear away heat and promote diuresis, such as watermelon, peach, dark plum, strawberry, tomato, cucumber and mung bean, is beneficial to replenish water in the body.