Sugarcane has the effect of nourishing and clearing heat and is rich in nutrients. As a cool tonic, it is effective for hypoglycemia, dry stools, unfavorable urination, regurgitation and vomiting, coughing with deficiency heat and high fever and thirst. People who are overworked or dizzy from hunger will be refreshed by eating just two knots of sugarcane. However, due to the cold nature of sugarcane, it is not suitable for people with cold spleen and stomach and pain in stomach and abdomen. In addition, fruits suitable for eating in fall and winter are apples, oranges, bananas, hawthorn and so on.
Winter dietary principles
Winter, cold climate, yin and yang decline. The human body is affected by cold temperatures, the body's physiological functions and appetite will change. Therefore, a reasonable adjustment of diet, to ensure that the body of essential nutrients, to improve the elderly cold tolerance and immune function, so that the safe and smooth winter, is very necessary.
First of all, the supply of heat energy should be guaranteed. The cold winter climate affects the body's endocrine system, so that the body's thyroxine, adrenaline and other secretion increases, thus promoting and accelerating the protein, fat, carbohydrate three major categories of heat source nutrients decomposition, in order to increase the body's ability to protect against cold, which causes the body to lose too much heat. Therefore, winter nutrition should increase the main heat energy, can be appropriate more intake of food rich in carbohydrates and fat. For the elderly, fat intake can not be too much, so as not to induce other diseases in the elderly, but should be sufficient intake of protein, because the protein decomposition of high metabolism enhancement, the human body is prone to negative nitrogen balance. Protein supply to account for 15-17% of the total calories for good, the supply of protein should be high-quality proteins, such as lean meat, eggs, fish, dairy, beans and their products, etc., these foods contain proteins, not only easy for the body to digest and assimilate, and is rich in essential amino acids, nutritional value is higher, can increase the human body's ability to withstand the cold and resistance to disease.
Winter, and is the off-season of vegetables, the number of vegetables are both less, varieties are also more monotonous, especially in the north of China, this phenomenon is more prominent. Therefore, often after a winter, the human body vitamin deficiencies, such as lack of vitamin C, and as a result, many elderly people have mouth ulcers, tooth root swelling, bleeding, constipation and other symptoms. Its prevention and treatment methods should first expand food sources, winter leafy greens are relatively reduced, you can eat some potatoes, such as sweet potatoes, potatoes and so on. They are rich in vitamin C, vitamin B, especially the lack of vitamin A, red sweet potato also contains more carotene. Eat more potatoes, not only supplemental vitamins, but also clear internal heat, go to the plague effect. In addition, in the winter market in the road vegetables, in addition to cabbage, should also choose cabbage, heart beauty radish, white radish, carrot, soybean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, rape and so on. These vegetables are rich in vitamins. As long as often switch varieties, reasonable combination, or can supplement the body's vitamin needs. Winter cold, can also affect the body's nutritional metabolism, so that the consumption of various nutrients have different degrees of increase. The elderly due to digestion, absorption and metabolic factors in the body, often lack of potassium, calcium, sodium, iron and other elements, coupled with an increase in the amount of human urine in winter, so that the amount of the above inorganic salts discharged with the urine also increased, and therefore should be supplemented in a timely manner. You can eat more food rich in calcium, iron, sodium, potassium, such as shrimp, shrimp, sesame paste, pig liver, bananas and so on. If you have low sodium, cooking, taste slightly salty, can be supplemented.
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Winter tonic is one of the traditional self-care methods of our country to prevent illness and strengthen the body and to support weakness.
Winter is a cold season. According to the motherland medicine, winter tonic and balance yin and yang, dredge meridians and channels, and harmonize qi and blood have a close relationship. The elderly due to the body function decline, low resistance, etc., in the cold season, it is more appropriate to dietary supplement. This is to improve the nutritional status, enhance the body's immune function, promote the recovery of the body, more can show the effect of drugs can not be replaced.
Winter tonic should follow nature, pay attention to Yang, to nourish the main tonic. According to traditional Chinese medicine, "weak is complementary, cold is warm" principle, in the diet should eat more warm, hot, especially warm kidney Yang food to regulate, in order to improve the body's ability to withstand cold. Winter "food supplement", should be supplied with protein, vitamins and easy to digest food. Can choose to eat: round-grained rice, indica rice, corn, wheat, soybeans, peas and other cereals and legumes; leeks, parsley, garlic, radish, cauliflower and other vegetables; mutton, dog meat, beef, chicken and eel, carp, chub, scallop, shrimp and other meats; oranges, coconuts, pineapple, lychee, cinnamon and other fruits. Dog meat and mutton are good winter tonic for the elderly. Elderly people take ginseng wine or astragalus wine 1 small cup in the morning every day, which can prevent wind and cold and activate blood. Weakness of the elderly, winter often eat stewed hen, meat, hooves, often drink milk, soybean milk, etc., can strengthen the body. Beef appropriate amount of cut small pieces, plus wine, onions, ginger, stewed in a casserole, eat meat and drink soup, there are beneficial to quench thirst, strong bones, nourish the spleen and stomach effects. Yang Qi insufficient old man, can be mutton and radish with cooking, and then remove the radish (that is, to remove the stink of mutton), plus 15 grams of Cistanches, 15 grams of Baji Tian, 15 grams of Chinese wolfberries with cooking, eating mutton and drinking soup, there is a XingYangWenYun efficacy. Modern medicine believes that winter tonic can improve the body's immune function, promote metabolism, so that the phenomenon of fear of cold is improved. Winter tonic can also regulate the body's material metabolism, so that the nutrients into the maximum energy stored in the body, helping the body's Yang Qi rise, for the next year's health to lay a good foundation. As the saying goes, "three nine make up a winter, the next year, no disease", is this reason.
How do women supplement their diets in winter?
China has always had a traditional custom of winter tonic. The winter solstice has passed, the family winter tonic again on the agenda. However, how can you scientifically supplement? Why should the tonic vary from person to person? How women according to their age, physical and physiological characteristics of scientific tonic, many people know little.
In fact, the first thing to do is to "make up" in winter, which requires a grasp of the secrets of women's scientific supplementation. Experts opened the "formula" is to grasp the three key words:
Key words: medicine is not as good as food supplement
Experts reminded: winter tonic rather than taking a lot of supplements, as well as from the beginning of the food supplement. And women in the dietary supplement can be based on different physiques, divided into four different dietary supplement methods:
Plain supplement: refers to whether the healthy or sick people can eat, to help maintain the health and life of the food, such as cereals, legumes, dairy, fruits and vegetables, and so on. These foods have calm properties and can be consumed by patients with yin deficiency, yang deficiency, qi deficiency and blood deficiency.
Warm tonic: refers to food warm food, such as beef, mutton, eel, sweets, jujube, cinnamon, lychee, and onion, ginger and spicy products. Women who are afraid of cold in winter often eat this kind of food can help improve the feeling of cold, so as to strengthen the body.
Clear tonic: refers to the eating of cold food, such as pear, raw lotus root, celery, lily, green beans, cucumber, turtle, snail, etc., has the effect of clearing fire.
Warming and dispersing: refers to foods that are hot and pungent in nature, such as chili peppers, cinnamon, mustard, coriander and peppercorns, which have the effect of warming yang and dispersing cold.
Keyword two: winter tonic to follow the doctor's advice
Experts pointed out that women's winter tonic must pay attention to the science, to be different from person to person, listen to the doctor's advice. Because in the professional more and more detailed era, only professional physicians, professional technology, professional equipment, in order to get rid of the pain for the majority of women, enhance health.
Keyword three: tonic to be different
Women winter tonic to do twice as much with half the effort, the key lies in the different physique, targeted:
Long-term engaged in the text work and often operate the computer women
Common symptoms: eye fatigue dry.
Tips for tonic: all kinds of animal liver is rich in vitamin A, often eat, good for the eyes, but high blood fat and cholesterol women should eat less or not eat. Carotene-rich vegetables: eat 3 carrots per week, you can maintain the daily content of vitamin A in the body, in addition, sweet potatoes, oranges, grapefruit, persimmons, vitamin A content is also higher. Milk, egg food: such as milk, as well as eggs, duck eggs, pigeon eggs, etc., of which, the yolk within the vitamin a content is relatively rich. Goji berries: rich in carotene, is a good eye tonic, winter to tea drinking is appropriate.
Women who work late at night for long periods of time
Common symptoms: fatigue, reduced work efficiency, memory loss.
Tips: Fish: Cod, sardines, especially for brain cells, brain nerve conduction, development has an important role. Milk, yogurt: rich in protein, beneficial to the human brain. Containing vitamin b, c and amino acids, fat content of more than 40%. The unsaturated linoleic acid, balls phospholipids, linolenic acid is the structure of the human brain material. Wheat, millet, corn: containing protein, fat, calcium, iron, vitamin b1, can prevent neurasthenia, its plant fiber can promote the brain microcirculation smooth. Fruits: orange, grapefruit, citrus, orange, lemon and other fruits for alkaline food, often eat in favor of eliminating the brain's acidic metabolic products.
Women with yellowish color, pale lips and tongue
Common symptoms: dizziness, palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness, numbness of the hands and feet, as well as delayed menstrual period.
Tips for tonic: Mutton: Mutton is sweet and warm in nature, and it is good for the body.