Today is the beginning of autumn solar term. The arrival of the beginning of autumn solar term represents the official arrival of autumn. Different solar terms have different health needs in different seasons. What should we eat in the beginning of autumn? This article brings you an inventory of health food in the beginning of autumn. Let's see what to eat in the next day.
What do you eat at the beginning of autumn?
1. Autumn peach
In Zhejiang, there is a custom of the beginning of autumn solar eclipse and autumn peach. Every autumn, everyone should eat autumn peaches, one for each. After eating autumn peaches, keep the peach stones hidden. Wait until new year's Eve, unknowingly throw the peach stones into the stove and burn them to ashes. People think that this can avoid the plague for a year!
2. Autumn fat
It is popular among the people to weigh people with hanging scales on the day of the beginning of autumn. The weight is compared with that at the beginning of summer to test fat and thin. The weight loss is called 'bitter summer'. Because people have no appetite in summer, and their meals are light and simple. After two or three months, most of them have to reduce their weight. At that time, people's evaluation of health was often based on fat and thin. Of course, if you lose weight, you need to 'make up'. When the autumn wind is together and your appetite is open, you should eat something good, increase nutrition and compensate for the loss in summer. The way to make up is to 'stick autumn fat': on the beginning of autumn, all kinds of meat, stewed meat, roast meat, braised meat and so on, 'stick fat with meat'.
'sticking autumn fat 'is popular among the people in Beijing and Hebei. On this day, ordinary people eat stewed meat at home. People who pay more attention to it eat white cut meat, braised meat, meat dumplings, stewed chicken, stewed duck, braised fish, etc.
After the beginning of autumn, the day is still hot, but the cold will gradually flourish in the morning and evening. Weak people should avoid the invasion of cold. Unlike long summer, when it is wet and dry in autumn, the weather is dry. It is' warm and dry 'near summer and' cool and dry 'near winter. Warm dryness is easy to 'move blood'. You might as well eat some moist foods, such as tremella, lily, honey, walnut, sesame, pear, water chestnut, reed root, etc., which can not only clear heat but also moisten dryness.
Autumn belongs to gold and gold, which governs the lung. If the lung qi is deficient, the body's tolerance to adverse stimuli decreases, and the mood is easy to be depressed. Experts remind that special attention should be paid to emotional adjustment in autumn, so as to achieve inner peace and comfortable mood, and take the initiative to resolve sad things. After the beginning of autumn, it is best to go to bed early and get up early. After the weather is cooler, it is suggested to strengthen physical exercise, which will help run Qi and blood and dredge lung qi.
3. Apple
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that apples have the functions of generating saliva, moistening the lungs, removing annoyance, appetizing and sobering up. For those with dyspepsia and blocked Qi, they can be squeezed and taken. Modern medicine believes that apples can also prevent and eliminate fatigue. The potassium in apples can combine with the excess sodium in the body and excrete it out of the body. When eating too much salt, you can eat apples to help eliminate it, so eating apples or drinking apple juice is beneficial to patients with hypertension.
The most healthy fruit. Among many fruits and vegetables, Americans excrete the most healthy fruit. Apple ranked first because Apple is rich in fiber material, which can supplement enough fiber quality, reduce the incidence rate of heart disease, and lose weight. Many Americans take apples as a must to lose weight and go on a diet one day a week. On this day, they only eat apples, known as' apple day '.
4. Grapes
It is sweet and sour in nature. Fresh food is sour and sweet and palatable. It can generate saliva and quench thirst, appetize and eliminate food. However, people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more. Eating more food will cause diarrhea.
5. Broccoli
Broccoli contains a lot of vitamin A, vitamin C and carotene, which plays a good role in improving skin anti-damage ability and maintaining skin elasticity.
6. Honey
Honey contains a lot of amino acids, vitamins and sugars that are easy to be absorbed by the human body. It is an excellent skin care product. In addition, eating more honey in autumn can also moisten the lungs and remove dryness from the inside to the outside.
7. Kelp
Kelp is rich in minerals, which can regulate the pH of the blood and prevent the skin from secreting too much oil.
8. Lotus root
Lotus root can be used as both fruit and delicacies. It is suitable for raw and cooked food. Lotus root, whether raw or cooked, has good medicinal value. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lotus root is cold in nature and sweet and cool into the stomach, which can eliminate blood stasis and cool blood, clear annoyance and heat, and stop vomiting and thirst. It is suitable for thirst, drunkenness, hemoptysis, hematemesis and other diseases. Women do not eat raw and cold postpartum, but do not avoid lotus root. It is because lotus root has a good effect of removing blood stasis, so there is a saying among the people that "the newly picked tender lotus root is better than the imperial doctor". Ripe lotus root, whose color changes from white to purple, has the effects of nourishing stomach, nourishing Yin, strengthening spleen and Qi. It is a good food tonic. The lotus root powder processed from lotus root is not only nutritious, but also easy to digest. It has the effects of nourishing blood, hemostasis, regulating middle and appetizing. In fact, it is an ideal nutritional product for the old and young.
9. Fish
Omega-3 fatty acids contained in fish, especially deep-sea fish, can eliminate bioactive substances that damage skin collagen and skin moisturizing factors and prevent wrinkles. It is one of the foods to help women delay aging.