Pay attention to the supplement of salt and vitamins. Nutritionists suggest that it is best to supplement vitamin B 1, B2 2 mg each, vitamin C50 mg and calcium 1 g every day in high temperature season, which can reduce the consumption of sugar and tissue protein in the body and is beneficial to health. You can also eat more foods rich in the above nutrients, such as watermelon, cucumber, tomato, beans and their products, animal liver and kidney, shrimp skin and so on. And you can drink some juice.
Drinking tea can not only relieve summer heat but also replenish potassium: sweating more in summer, and more potassium ions are lost with sweat, leading to hypokalemia, which will cause fatigue, dizziness, headache, loss of appetite and other symptoms. The most effective way to prevent potassium deficiency in hot weather is to eat more foods containing potassium. Fresh vegetables and fruits contain more potassium, so you can eat more strawberries, apricots, lychees, peaches and plums. Vegetables include green onions, celery, edamame, etc., and are also rich in potassium. Tea also contains more potassium. Drinking more tea in hot weather can relieve summer heat and supplement potassium, killing two birds with one stone.
It is hot in summer, and the gastrointestinal function is weakened by it. Therefore, in terms of diet, it is necessary to mix well to help enhance the function of the spleen and stomach. Flour and rice should be properly matched with coarse grains and eaten three times a week. Dilution and drying should be arranged reasonably. Summer should eat two thin dry. In the morning, we should eat pasta and soybean milk, dry rice for Chinese food and porridge at night. Eating some cold drinks or beverages properly in hot weather can play a certain role in dispelling summer heat and cooling down. But ice cream and ice cubes are mostly milk, egg powder and sugar, which is too inedible. Most drinks have low nutritional value, so it is better to drink less.
In summer, especially those with spleen deficiency, we should take the principle of "clearing and nourishing", such as invigorating qi and nourishing yin, invigorating spleen and nourishing stomach, clearing heat and eliminating dampness, and choose all kinds of fresh and delicious, mild in taste, easy to digest and nourishing but not greasy foods for diet conditioning. "Clean-up" should avoid spicy food and fat, sweetness, greasy, phlegm and dampness. People with yin deficiency and weak constitution can choose lean pork, duck, rabbit, boiled chicken, salted duck eggs, steamed fresh fish and other foods rich in high-quality protein when arranging meals.
Bitter gourd: Chinese medicine believes that heart fire is strong in summer, and bitter taste can relieve summer heat and dryness. Eating some bitter food in summer can restore the function of spleen and stomach and increase appetite. Eating some bitter gourd properly in hot weather can not only clear the heart, relieve annoyance and refresh the mind, but also stimulate the appetite, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach. In addition, modern medicine has found that there is an active protein in bitter gourd, which can effectively urge immune cells in the body to kill cancer cells and has a certain anti-cancer effect. Bitter gourd contains substances similar to insulin, which can significantly lower blood sugar, and is recommended by nutritionists and medical scientists as an ideal food for diabetic patients.
Mung beans: Mung beans are sweet and cold, enter the heart and stomach, and have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and diuresis. However, it should be noted that mung beans should not be overcooked, so as not to destroy organic acids and vitamins and reduce the efficacy of clearing away heat and toxic materials. Because mung beans are cold, people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more.
Watermelon: You sweat a lot in summer, and you lose more nutrition as the sweat is discharged. Eating watermelon properly can not only make up for the lost water, but also increase nutrition. Studies have shown that people who are addicted to tobacco and alcohol and like salty food suffer from esophageal cancer, and eating watermelon often can reduce the risk of esophageal cancer; The protease contained in watermelon juice can transform insoluble protein into soluble protein, thus increasing the nutrition of patients with nephritis, so watermelon is a good medicine for patients with nephropathy. Watermelon peel is also a good cosmetic. Wiping facial skin with watermelon peel and washing with water can increase skin elasticity, reduce wrinkles and increase luster.
Beer: Beer is rich in amino acids, protein, sugar, minerals and other ingredients beneficial to human health, and is known as "liquid bread". Drinking some beer in moderation in summer can strengthen the stomach, improve eyesight, dissipate heat, quench thirst, relieve cough, diuresis, eliminate fatigue and restore physical strength. It is an ideal drink in summer.