Spring is the season from cold to warm, and the temperature changes greatly. In addition, bacteria, especially germs, begin to multiply in large numbers, and their vitality is enhanced, which is easy to attack the human body and cause diseases. Therefore, there are plenty of vitamins and minerals in spring. For example, dark green vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, potherb mustard, sweet pepper and tomato, and fruits such as citrus and lemon are rich in vitamin C. Because vitamin c has antiviral effect. Canadian scientists also found that wine has antiviral function. At the same time, yellow-green vegetables such as carrots rich in vitamin A should be eaten in spring, because vitamin A can protect and enhance respiratory mucosa and epithelial cells of respiratory organs. So as to resist the invasion of various pathogenic factors. In addition, you should also ingest cyan cabbage, cauliflower, sesame and so on. It is rich in vitamin e. Vitamin E has the functions of improving human immunity and enhancing disease resistance.
Some foreign experts believe that the spring diet should be light, and edible fungi, such as auricularia auricula, tremella, mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms, can be added as dishes. Auricularia auricula is rich in mineral calcium, which plays a leading role in the function of human muscle, heart, brain and other cells; Tremella fuciformis is rich in tremella fuciformis polysaccharide, which can improve the phagocytosis of human guardian macrophages; Mushrooms contain mushroom polysaccharides, which can resist the invasion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Edible fungi are natural health-care nutrients in spring.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that spring health care should be based on tonic, that is, people can make flexible nutrition and diet conditioning according to their physical condition. Generally speaking, according to the characteristics of human yang in spring, you can choose a flat and clear diet. If you choose warm food for tonic, it will often contribute to the disadvantages of yang. Light diet is suitable for normal people and sick people, such as buckwheat, rice kernels and other grains; Soymilk, mung beans and other beans; Fruits such as apples; There are sesame seeds, walnuts and so on. Long-term consumption will generally have no adverse effects, even people with yin deficiency, qi deficiency, yang deficiency and blood deficiency can eat it. Food supplement refers to the diet cooked with foods with cold eating habits, such as pears, lotus roots, shepherd's purse, lilies and so on. Those with yin deficiency and internal heat supplement these diets, which can eliminate fire, improve the feeling of being afraid of heat and help to improve physical fitness. People who recover during and after illness should give priority to cool, light, delicious and digestible foods to help restore appetite. So you can choose rice porridge, rice kernel porridge, red bean porridge, lotus seed porridge, green vegetable paste, jellyfish, pork floss, fermented bean curd and other foods. If you don't eat sweet, greasy, fried and cold food, it will block the stomach and impair its function.
Reasonable diet in spring
Spring is the season when everything grows and everything gets close. Huangdi Neijing; Write: "Spring March, this is called Chen, heaven and earth are born, and everything is glorious." This means that in the three months of spring, all creatures are new and full of vitality. People should adapt to the season, recuperate their vitality, and unify their bodies with the outside world, which is called "the response of spring spirit, the way of keeping in good health". For the elderly, more attention should be paid to diet in spring to ensure health and longevity.
In early spring, the temperature is still cold, and the human body needs to consume some energy to maintain the basal body temperature to keep out the cold. Therefore, the nutrients in early spring should be mainly high in calories. In addition to cereal products, you should also choose foods such as soybeans, sesame seeds, peanuts and walnuts to supplement energy substances in time. Because the cold stimulation will accelerate the decomposition of protein, which will lead to the decline of body resistance and cause diseases, it is necessary to supplement high-quality protein foods such as eggs, fish, shrimp, beef, chicken, rabbit meat and bean products in early spring. The above foods are rich in methionine, which can enhance the cold tolerance of human body.
Spring is also the season when the climate changes from cold to warm, and the temperature changes greatly. Bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms begin to multiply in large numbers, and their vitality is enhanced, which is easy to invade the human body and cause diseases. Therefore, we should take enough vitamins and inorganic salts in our diet. Fresh vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, rape, persimmon pepper and persimmon, and fruits such as citrus and lemon are rich in vitamin C and have antiviral effects. Yellow-green vegetables such as carrots and amaranth are rich in vitamin A, which can protect and increase the epithelial cells of the strong upper respiratory mucosa and respiratory organs, thus resisting the invasion of various pathogenic factors; Food rich in vitamin E should also be eaten to improve human immune function and enhance the body's disease resistance. This kind of food includes sesame, blue cabbage and cauliflower.
Motherland medicine also believes that "spring should be sour and sweet to nourish the temper." This is because when the liver qi is strong in spring, it will affect the spleen, so it is easy to appear spleen and stomach weakness in spring; Moreover, eating more sour food will make the liver function high, so the spring diet should be nursed back to health, and it is advisable to choose spicy and warm products to avoid acidity. Diet should be light and delicious, avoid greasy, cold and irritating food. In addition, spring is the off-season of vegetables, but the growth period of wild vegetables and mountain vegetables is earlier than that of ordinary vegetables, and they are rich in vitamins, so they can be picked and eaten to supplement the shortcomings of ordinary vegetables.