The cold season in winter is a good opportunity to nourish yin. Chinese medicine believes that it is best to eat high-calorie meals such as turtle, black fungus, lotus root and sesame.
In order to avoid vitamin deficiency, we should also eat fresh vegetables, such as carrots, vegetables, spinach and mung bean sprouts. If you want to increase vitamins, you can eat more vegetables and fruits such as radish, carrot, pepper, potato, spinach, orange, apple and banana, and at the same time increase animal liver, lean meat, fresh fish, eggs and beans to ensure the body's needs for vitamin A, vitamin b 1 and vitamin b2.
Eat hot things in winter, but don't eat too much hot things. Onions should not be eaten too much, lest the spirit of the sun be turned into heat. Try to eat as little or no sticky and cold food in winter. These foods are cloudy and easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. People who eat this kind of food with kidney-yang deficiency are prone to diseases such as stagnation of qi, cold limbs, diarrhea and clearing the valley.
There are three ways to adjust the diet in winter: one is porridge. Drink mutton porridge in winter to warm the sun. Japonica rice porridge is also suitable for winter consumption, such as adding some red dates and red beans, which will make people feel warm and energetic after eating. Five-grain porridge for nourishing the heart and relieving annoyance, radish porridge for promoting digestion and resolving phlegm, yam porridge for tonifying lung and stomach, walnut porridge for nourishing yin and essence, Poria porridge for invigorating spleen and stomach, jujube porridge for invigorating qi and nourishing yin, corn porridge for regulating appetite and sweet potato porridge for nourishing liver and kidney are all porridge suitable for winter. Second, it is suitable for thermal products. Beef and mutton, dog meat, longan meat, jujube, eggs, yam, pig blood, glutinous rice and leek are all warm foods, which are suitable for winter consumption. Drinking a small glass of wine for dinner every day in winter is of great benefit to middle-aged and elderly people. Trinity nuts. Eat more walnuts, chestnuts, pine nuts, peanuts, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, black beans and black rice in winter.
Warm products such as sheep and chicken in winter are suitable for people with yang deficiency. It is better to eat ducks and geese with deficiency of both qi and yin. People with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular arteriosclerosis should adhere to the principles of low salt, low sugar, low fat, low cholesterol, high protein and high vitamins.