The nutritional feature of winter diet is to increase calories. Among the three thermogenic nutrients, the intake of protein can be kept at the usual level, and the increase of calories should be mainly ensured by increasing the intake of sugar and fat. Minerals should be maintained at the usual requirement or slightly higher. You can choose foods with high fat content to increase calories. In the supply of vitamins, we should pay special attention to increasing the content of vitamin C. We can eat more vegetables such as radishes, carrots, potatoes and spinach and fruits such as oranges, apples and bananas, and at the same time increase animal livers, lean meat, fresh fish, eggs and beans to ensure the body's demand for vitamins.
Adjust the "food clock" in winter-when it is cold in winter, people's appetite increases, but this does not mean that the human body needs more calories in winter. Modern scientific research has proved that the energy required by the human body in winter is not much different from that in other seasons, because in the cold climate, the operation of the "hormone clock" of the human body has changed.
Winter is the time when kidney governs order. Kidney governs salty taste, and heart governs bitter taste. Saltiness can overcome bitterness. Therefore, "Notes of the Four Seasons" points out: "The kidney water in winter is salty, so it is appropriate to nourish the heart." Therefore, the taste of diet should be salty and bitter, so as to nourish the heart, protect the heart and kidney, eat spicy products, make the lung qi direct and consolidate the kidney qi. Although it is advisable to eat hot food in winter, it is not advisable to binge drink hot things and eat more onions, so as not to turn latent yang depression into heat. Hard and cold food is forbidden in winter. This kind of food is mostly yin, which is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. For example, people with kidney-yang deficiency often cause diseases such as depression of qi, cold limbs, diarrhea, and clearing the valley.
There are three kinds of diet recuperation: one is porridge, and ancient health experts advocate drinking some hot porridge from late winter morning. "Eating is right" holds that mutton porridge should be eaten in winter to warm the yang. If you add red dates and red beans to japonica rice porridge, you can feel warm and energetic. People have the habit of eating red bean porridge on the solstice in winter. They eat Laba porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month and Babao porridge on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month. In winter, it is advisable to eat cereal porridge that nourishes the heart and relieves annoyance, radish porridge that helps digestion and phlegm removal, yam porridge that tonifies the lung and stomach, walnut porridge that nourishes yin and essence, Poria porridge that strengthens the spleen and nourishes the stomach, jujube porridge that nourishes qi and yin, corn porridge that stimulates appetite, and sweet potato porridge that nourishes liver and kidney. Second, it is appropriate to warm the product to take the meaning of yang and yin. If you want to eat beef and mutton, dog meat, longan meat, dates, eggs, yam, pig blood, glutinous rice, leeks and so on. Drinking a small glass of wine for dinner every day in winter is of great benefit to middle-aged and elderly people. Sanyi nuts, eat more walnuts, chestnuts, pine nuts, peanuts, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, black beans and black rice in winter. It should be noted that obese people avoid being fat, sweet and warm.
Warm products such as mutton and chicken in winter are suitable for people with yang deficiency. Duck and goose are the best supplements for deficiency of both qi and yin. It is pointed out in the "Fun Life Diet Spectrum" that ducks nourish the yin of the five internal organs, clear the heat of deficiency and fatigue, nourish blood, run water, nourish the stomach and produce fluid.