First, life and health
A notable feature of this festival is the rising temperature and hot weather, especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China, where the air is very humid and the weather is extremely sultry. In this climate, the public should go to bed late and get up early in their daily life, and receive proper sunlight, but avoid direct sunlight and pay attention to heatstroke prevention, so as to meet the need of yang and cheer up their spirits. In addition, in summer, the days are long and the nights are short. Taking a nap at noon will help to recover from fatigue.
The expert said, "It's too hot to fall asleep easily. I sleep about half an hour later than usual, get up at the usual time in the morning, or even get up about half an hour earlier, which has no effect on my health. " However, you can't rigidly postpone your sleep time, or even stay up late. "Outdated" is a characteristic of people's sleep. If you are sleepy and don't fall asleep in time, it will be difficult to fall asleep and even insomnia after the best time. Experts suggest that you should not sleep more than 12 at night in summer. Chinese medicine advocates that people must sleep at noon, from 1 1 in the evening to 1 the next morning, and from 1 1 3 at noon during the day. It is good for the elderly to take a nap at noon every day.
The size and thinness of summer clothes have a lot to do with heat dissipation. Usually, the smaller the clothing coverage area, the faster the body temperature will be lost. The color of clothes is also very important. It is generally believed that clothes of different colors absorb and reflect heat differently. The darker the color, the stronger the heat absorption, the lighter the color, the stronger the reflectivity and the worse the heat absorption. Therefore, it is best to wear short fir, short skirt and shorts in ear season, and try to choose loose styles, which is conducive to ventilation and heat dissipation.
In order to avoid "heatstroke", you should take a bath often after the awn seeds, which can relax your skin and make the yang heat easy to vent. But it should be noted that don't take a shower immediately when sweating. There is an old saying in China: "You can't get wet when you sweat". If you get wet when you sweat, you will get acne. Be sure to take a bath after planting, but don't take a bath with cold water immediately when sweating. Don't sleep in the open air because of greed, don't sweat and dry with bare arms, and be quiet. The so-called "peace of mind is naturally cool."
Many people like to stay in air-conditioned rooms to cool down in the canopy season. In this regard, experts said that although air conditioning brings coolness to people, it also brings negative effects to people. Due to closed doors and windows, indoor pollution, indoor hypoxia, and constant temperature environment, the human body generates heat and loses its regulating function, which will make people suffer from "air conditioning disease". Stay in an air-conditioned room for a long time and ventilate it in time.
Second, diet and health.
From the point of view of nutrition, light diet plays an important role in health preservation. For example, vegetables and beans can provide essential nutrients such as sugar, protein, fat and minerals, as well as a lot of vitamins, which can prevent diseases and aging. Vitamin C in fruits and vegetables is also an important redox substance in the body, which can promote the absorption of oxygen by cells and is an indispensable component for the formation of some hormones between cells. In addition, vitamin C can also inhibit pathological changes, promote the formation of antibodies and improve the body's disease resistance.
After the temperature rises, the metabolic capacity of the human body begins to accelerate, and the amount of perspiration increases, which will increase the loss of body fluids and gases. At this time, in addition to drinking plenty of water, you should also eat more foods that can dispel summer heat and replenish qi, promote fluid production and quench thirst, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, peaches and other fruits and vegetables. In terms of diet, experts also suggest eating more foods that strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, such as lentils, coix seed, wax gourd and lotus seeds. And remember not to overeat cold and greasy food to avoid dampness and spleen injury. If necessary, you can take Chinese patent medicines, such as Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, Shidishui, Ren Dan, etc.
It is easy to catch a cold in summer, which is called "hot cold" by Chinese medicine, with runny nose, stuffy nose, sneezing, sometimes fever and headache. Some may have symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea. In diet, you can drink mung bean soup, honeysuckle dew, chrysanthemum tea and reed root flower to clear away heat and relieve summer heat. At the same time, avoid greasy, sticky, sour and spicy food, such as glutinous rice, fried food, sea fish and sweets.
Don't eat too much salty and sweet when you eat tonic. Too salty diet, too much sodium ion in the body, the elderly and low activity will all increase blood pressure and even cause cerebrovascular dysfunction. Eating too many sweets is not good for human health. With the increase of age, the metabolic capacity of carbohydrates in the body gradually decreases. Excessive carbohydrates are converted into fat and accumulate in the body, which is easy to cause the accumulation of intermediate products (such as sucrose), which can lead to hyperlipidemia and hypercholesterolemia, and even induce diabetes in severe cases.
Third, exercise.
Chinese medicine believes that at this time, health should pay attention to sweating. Sweating can help expel toxins from the human body, which not only makes people full of energy, but also makes it difficult for diseases to get up. It often rains in the awning season, so people can get some sunshine when they come out occasionally. Experts say it's already summer when the sun be the spirit rises. With the rise of Yang Can, sunbathing makes the body sweat, which is also conducive to the operation of qi and blood. In addition, you can also play ball and run. Sweat properly through exercise.
In hot summer, it's best not to go out to exercise during the day when the sun is strong. Early morning is a time when the sympathetic nerve is highly excited, which is not suitable for exercise. It is suggested to go out in the evening as much as possible in summer to prevent sunburn or sports accidents. Wear loose, sweat-absorbent clothes during exercise and bring a bottle of water with you to prevent dehydration. In the process of fitness, try to avoid outdoor fitness when the sun is strongest, and don't exercise naked. It is best to wear sweat-absorbent, breathable and comfortable cotton sportswear. When you need to exercise in the sun, you can wear sunglasses and a sun hat, and you can also use some sunscreen skin care products to protect your eyes and skin.
If you wear sunglasses for a long time, your eyes will be tired. To relieve eye fatigue, try "tree watching exercise", which is beneficial to regulate eye muscles and improve sarcoidosis, especially suitable for relaxing eyes and relieving visual fatigue, and has a positive effect on preventing and treating pseudomyopia. People who choose indoor fitness must stay away from air conditioning when exercising. After the exercise, don't blow the air conditioner casually for a while, and don't stand in front of the air conditioner and blow your head directly, otherwise you will catch a cold.
Before exercising in summer, you should make full warm-up preparations. Because the human body consumes a lot of energy, it is necessary to control the activity intensity during exercise. Once you have symptoms of heatstroke, you should immediately sit down in a cool and ventilated place, drink some cold salt and boiled water, breathe fresh air, and apply cold compress to your forehead or armpit. If you still don't get better after treatment, you should be sent to the hospital immediately.
Fourth, emotional health.
When the weather is hot, people are easily upset. At this time, we should adjust our emotions, pay attention to maintaining a comfortable mood and being open-minded, and prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as hypertension and cerebrovascular accidents caused by violent mood fluctuations. You should keep yourself relaxed and happy, avoid being angry and depressed, so that your anger can be promoted and vented freely.
As the saying goes, "peace of mind is naturally cool" is actually a way to adjust your mood in summer. In other words, in the hot summer, we should adjust our breathing to make our mind calm. If we can imagine that there is ice and snow in our hearts, we won't feel the heat. In the meantime, you should keep a positive attitude and try to be less angry.
Nowadays, many people, especially the elderly, after retirement, although their children have a successful career and a carefree family life, they often feel upset, uneasy and uncomfortable everywhere, and can't find any problems, especially in the spring and summer when human metabolism is strong. This kind of bad mood will be aggravated, which is probably a problem with the mental health of the elderly.
Only by cultivating some hobbies that suit you can you live happily and comfortably in your later years. The elderly should first cultivate their interests according to their physical conditions, such as music, swimming or walking, jogging, playing Tai Ji Chuan, calligraphy and so on. Secondly, no matter what your physical condition is, you should choose to read more books. Lu You said, "Reading tastes like forgetting your old age." Reading can make people love to use their brains and think, broaden their horizons, and they can learn and be eager to learn when they are old. It is hot in summer, and reading at home is also very beneficial to their physical and mental health.
In summer, you can often listen to melodious music, watch beautiful pictures, or do slow sports such as fishing, which is conducive to adjusting your spirit and keeping your mood comfortable. Keeping quiet, peaceful, balanced and quiet in summer to prevent mood ups and downs is a good way to prevent diseases.