Eat melons and vegetables

Summer is the peak season for cucumber, loofah, bitter gourd, fingered citron, pumpkin, wax gourd and other melon vegetables. They are high in water content, high in potassium and low in sodium, and are suitable for people who replenish water and lose inorganic salts after sweating a lot in summer. Bitter gourd, in particular, can not only clear away heat and relieve fatigue, but also stimulate appetite and refresh the mind. Cucumber vegetables can be cold, stir-fried, made into soup, or cooked with meat and fish, which is crisp and refreshing and has a unique flavor.

Sterile "vegetables"

Mainly refers to onion and garlic vegetables, garlic, onion, leek, green onion, chives, green garlic, garlic seedlings and so on. They are rich in plant broad-spectrum fungicides, which can kill and inhibit various cocci, bacilli and fungal viruses.

Eat cool vegetables

The most important influence of summer on human body is summer heat and dampness. After moisture invades the human body in summer, it will lead to pore opening, hyperhidrosis, qi deficiency, spleen and stomach dysfunction and indigestion. Eating too much meat will make people more acidic and get angry. Proper intake of cool vegetables is conducive to promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, relieving summer heat, clearing away heat and purging fire, expelling toxin and relaxing bowels.

We often eat cucumbers, tomatoes, celery, lotus roots, mung bean sprouts, water spinach, Chinese cabbage, white radish, white gourd, loofah, bitter gourd, eggplant, spinach, Chinese cabbage, rape, lettuce, amaranth, water bamboo, laver and so on. Because these vegetables are cold, you should also pay attention when eating. People who are weak after a long illness should not eat more cold vegetables, so as not to add cold to the cold and have adverse effects on their health.