"Spring should be the way to keep fit". For people, we should pay more attention to diet and nursed back to health in spring.
The temperature changes greatly in spring, so the nutrients in spring should be mainly high in calories. Because hot and cold stimulation will accelerate the decomposition of protein in the body, leading to the decline of body resistance, it is necessary to supplement high-quality protein food, such as eggs, fish, chicken and bean products.
In spring, 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, you should take enough vitamins and inorganic salts in your diet. Fresh vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, rape, bell pepper and tomato, and fruits such as citrus and lemon are rich in vitamin C, which has antiviral effect. Yellow-green vegetables such as carrots and amaranth are rich in vitamin A, which can protect and strengthen epithelial cells of upper respiratory mucosa and respiratory organs, thus resisting 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. 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 sour taste. Diet should be light and delicious, avoid greasy, cold and irritating food.
Spring health "when you need food supplements." However, according to the characteristics of the gradual increase of human yang in spring, we must choose a flat and clear diet to avoid backfiring.
Nutritionists believe that middle-aged and elderly people with premature aging, people suffering from various chronic diseases, people with thin bodies, people with backache, dizziness, sallow complexion and listlessness can make use of this season of spring to choose appropriate food supplements according to their own physique and illness, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing and treating diseases.
Older people with the above situation can take a plain diet. Foods with this function are: buckwheat, barley and other cereals, beans such as soybean milk and red beans, fruits such as oranges and apples, sesame seeds and walnuts. Can be taken for a long time.
If the elderly have internal heat due to yin deficiency, they can choose the method of clearing and replenishing. This kind of food includes: pear, lotus root, shepherd's purse, lily and so on. This kind of food is cold, and it has the function of clearing away heat and diminishing inflammation after eating, which is helpful to improve bad physique. Generally speaking, the tonic for the sick or recovered elderly should be mainly cool, light, delicious and digestible, and rice porridge, lotus seed porridge, green vegetable paste and pork floss can be selected.
Chinese medicine believes that "a hundred herbs germinate and all diseases break out", which means that spring is easy to relapse. Because it is warm and windy in spring, it is suitable for the reproduction and spread of microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses. Therefore, there are many exogenous factors in spring, which should be paid more attention to for the elderly who are weak.
Facts have proved that in spring, anyone with hyperactivity of liver yang is particularly prone to headache and dizziness, which is also the reason why Chinese medicine has long pointed out that "all diseases in spring are at the head". Modern medicine also found that climate change in spring can easily raise people's blood pressure, causing headaches, dizziness, insomnia and other symptoms. The diet prevention method is to eat 250-500 grams of bananas or oranges every day, because bananas contain potassium ions, which can lower blood pressure. In addition, regular consumption of lemon, pear and mung bean with more potassium is also beneficial to the prevention and treatment of hypertension.
Gastric and duodenal ulcer diseases are also prone to occur in spring. Avoid eating pork soup, chicken soup, fish soup, beef soup, spinach, beans, animal offal and irritating condiments rich in creatine, purine and other substances, because these foods have a strong effect of stimulating gastric juice secretion or forming gas to produce abdominal distension, which increases the gastrointestinal burden. Diet prevention, honey therapy can be used. After steaming honey water, take it on an empty stomach before meals, daily 100 ml, and take it three times. Or use 250 ml of milk, boil it, add 50 g of honey and 6 g of bletilla striata, and mix well before drinking. These all have the effect of nourishing yin and benefiting the stomach.
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; Spring is 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. At this time, a scientific diet is necessary.
Spring diet principle
Mainly based on high calories: in addition to cereal products, you should also choose foods such as soybeans, sesame seeds, peanuts and walnuts to keep out the cold.
Supplementing high-quality protein: such as eggs, fish, shrimp, beef, chicken, rabbit meat, bean products, etc. , to increase the resistance.
Take enough vitamins and inorganic salts: fresh vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, rape, sweet pepper and tomato, and fruits such as citrus and lemon, which 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 respiratory mucosa. Sesame, cabbage and cauliflower are rich in vitamin E, which can improve human immunity.
It is advisable to keep acid and sweeten it: "It is advisable to keep acid and sweeten it in spring to nourish the temper." Because spring is a time when liver qi is strong, it is easy to be weak in the spleen and stomach; 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 sour taste. Diet should be light and delicious, avoid greasy, cold and irritating food.
Replenishing liver in spring
Raise the liver first in spring. Pay attention to comprehensive nutrition and eat on time; Fresh and ripe fruits are good for health; Chicken liver is sweet and warm, and can nourish blood and liver. It is a good food for nourishing the liver, which has stronger liver nourishing effect than other animals' livers and can warm the stomach. Vinegar is the first choice for nourishing the liver. Vinegar tastes sour and enters the liver, which has the functions of calming the liver, removing blood stasis, detoxifying and killing insects.
In early spring, the cold is strong, and liver yang is difficult to occur. If you can drink a little wine, you can use it to promote the yang in the liver. Duck blood is mild and nutritious. It can nourish liver blood and treat anemia. It is one of the best foods to protect the liver. Spinach has the functions of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, soothing the liver and nourishing blood. If animal blood is added to the soup, it can treat liver-qi discomfort.
Usually, we know that people infected with bacteria will get sick, their bodies will get sick when they are created, and food will get sick if they don't pay attention to hygiene, but we often ignore another very common pathogenic factor, which is not enough to attract people's attention. This is an abnormal emotional change, which may lead to many diseases, and stomach trouble is one of them.
So, what is the relationship between emotional disorders and stomach diseases?
Many scholars at home and abroad have done a lot of experiments and statistical data analysis, and the results show that emotional disorder is an important cause of stomach disease. If someone does an experiment and hangs the monkey and gives it electrical stimulation from time to time, the monkey will always be in an anxious mood, and soon the monkey will get gastric ulcer. Some people use fiber gastroscope, X-ray and electroencephalogram, which is closely related to autonomic nerve dysfunction. In normal times, we often find such a situation, because bad mood, such as anxiety and anger, often obviously affects appetite and leads to insufficient diet. This is what Chinese medicine calls "thinking hurts the spleen" and "disharmony between liver and spleen".
Physiologically speaking, the liver governs excretion, the spleen and stomach govern transportation and transformation, and the excretion function of the liver is normal, which is helpful for digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach. If the emotional disorder, liver dysfunction, spleen and stomach transport function is damaged, it will lead to the occurrence of spleen and stomach diseases, often manifested as stomach pain, nausea and vomiting, fullness and pantothenic acid. It is also called "disharmony between liver and spleen" and "liver qi invading the stomach". Many scholars in modern times believe that the occurrence of chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer and gastric cancer is mainly caused by the frequent stimulation of seven emotions, especially anxiety and anger, which leads to disharmony between liver and stomach, qi stagnation and blood stasis, and qi and blood imbalance. Therefore, to prevent stomach trouble, we should pay attention to the adjustment of spirit and diet. Once you are ill, you should pay more attention to optimism and happiness. In treatment, you should adopt the method of soothing the liver and stomach. By restoring the function of soothing the liver and regulating qi, the purpose of curing stomach diseases can be achieved.
Due to the special state of spring, it is easy to cause people's emotional anxiety, especially the high incidence of many mental diseases. Attention should be paid to adjusting mentality and taking preventive and health care measures.