It's cold and cold. After entering the ninth cold day, the 23rd solar term of the twenty-four solar terms, Xiaohan, is coming. Xiaohan is the coldest day of the year. In ancient times, there was the saying that "Xiaohan is better than great cold", which means that Xiaohan is colder than great cold. Therefore, at this time, we should pay great attention to diet and health preservation. So what should Xiaohan do for health preservation? There are three principles for Xiaohan's diet and health preservation. This article will tell you what the three principles of Xiaohan's diet and health preservation are.
Food should be warm
Winter is a good time to eat mutton and chicken isothermal hot products, especially for people with Yang deficiency: Duck and goose are better for those with Yin deficiency. Do not eat sticky and cold food. Hot porridge in winter is also very suitable, such as mutton porridge to warm yang qi: Cereal porridge can nourish the heart and remove annoyance; Walnut porridge, nourishing yin and strengthening essence; Sweet potato porridge, nourishing liver and kidney; Jujube porridge can make people feel warm and double their energy; Yam porridge, after the rice is boiled, add 2 liang yams and more than a dozen jujubes, which has the effect of nourishing the kidney and blood.
Miscellaneous food
That is, the food should be diversified, with fine and coarse collocation, and eat both meat and vegetables. In winter, people tend to prefer foods with high protein, high fat and high sugar, and do not eat or eat less coarse grains, vegetables, melons and fruits. This not only makes people suffer from iron deficiency anemia, vitamin deficiency, constipation, angular stomatitis, gum bleeding and other diseases. Food should be bitter
At this time, the diet should reduce saltiness and increase bitterness. Bitter food can help heart Yang, reduce excessive kidney water and nourish the kidney.
Recommended diet:
Stewed mutton with Angelica and medlar
Ingredients: 15g angelica, 10g longan, 15g medlar and 500g mutton.
Preparation method: cut mutton into pieces, add ginger, cook it with boiling water, drain it with water drift, add various drugs and soup, stew it in water, drink soup and eat meat.
Function: mutton is warm and contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins (A and b). It has the function of tonifying Yin and Yang, tonifying asthenia and benefiting qi and blood. Longan nourishes the heart and spleen and can remove the smell of mutton. Angelica sinensis can replenish blood and nourish blood, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Stewed mutton with Angelica and medlar can tonify Yin, Yang and heart and spleen.