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Health care in summer

With the arrival of summer, more serious diseases and symptoms will follow. How to ensure your health in summer? Here are the following points, as long as you do, you can have a healthy body.

Protecting the heart

In summer, the most important thing is to protect the heart. First, avoid overheating and cooling. Overheating is common in summer. For example, walking in the street under the scorching sun at 12:00 p.m. can easily accelerate blood flow and increase the burden on the heart and blood vessels in a short time. In order to avoid summer heat, many people turn on air conditioning all night long. The alternation of cold and hot environment can easily cause heart discomfort. Secondly, we should eat more nourishing food, especially those with deficiency of heart Yin, and pay attention to less fatigue. When the weather is particularly hot, you can take a slice of American ginseng, or soak longan and Ophiopogon japonicus in water. Jujube and millet porridge is also a good choice. In addition, in summer, we must eat less salty food, animal viscera, fat, egg yolk and other foods with high cholesterol should also eat less.

Less anger

In hot and dry summer, with the acceleration of Qi and blood circulation, people's mood will fluctuate along with it. You will find that you can easily feel tired, easily upset and irritable, especially irritable, sometimes restless and sleepless at night & hellip; & hellip; which is called "emotional heatstroke" or "summer affective disorder" in psychology. For the elderly with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, this emotional instability is very dangerous, may cause sudden disease. Therefore, in traditional Chinese medicine, the two key words of summer health preservation are called "Shao Nu". It refers to keeping calm in mood. If you can bear it, you can bear it. Don't get angry.

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In summer, exercise exerts a lot of physical strength, and the description of "sweating all over the body" is not exaggerated at all. But for the elderly, especially those with chronic diseases, hot weather is not suitable for sweating too much, otherwise it will make the body more and more empty. Walking, Taiji, yoga and other slow exercises are most suitable for summer, which can help relieve insomnia and calm mood. People who are not sick can also walk and jog alternately.

The best way to walk in summer is to choose the park with beautiful environment and wear light shoes and loose clothes. Do some warm-up exercises before walking, such as chest enlargement and joint movement. When walking, raise your head and chest, keep your eyes level, keep your trunk straight; close your abdomen, move your body's center of gravity slightly forward; coordinate the upper and lower limbs with moderate pace, and have a sense of rhythm when landing on the ground. The elderly, especially those with hypertension and diabetes, should walk slowly for 15-30 minutes every day, with 70-80 steps per minute. It is ideal to sweat a little when walking. After walking, eat some low-fat food and fresh fruits, and add more water.