When people are under great pressure, they especially like to comfort themselves with various feasts, such as barbecue, grilled fish, shabu-shabu, seafood, spicy hot pot... The saying that mental stress substances are replenished is true. Does it make sense? Unfortunately, this is a big misunderstanding - too much fish and meat is definitely not a good thing for people with high mental stress and heavy mental workload.

There is an old saying that “thinking hurts the spleen.” The reason is that when the human body concentrates on thinking or is under great mental pressure, the autonomic nervous system function will be suppressed, and the digestion and absorption function will be affected. If there is insufficient rest and poor sleep, the renewal and repair of digestive tract cells will be hindered. Therefore, the more stressed you are, the more you need to eat foods that are easy to digest, so as to reduce the consumption of human energy and ability by the digestive system as much as possible, and not to cause trouble to the body.

Anti-stress meal design

Lotus seed and lily brown rice porridge

Ingredients

100 grams of brown rice, 25 grams of fresh lily, 15 lotus seeds, 1 spoon of wolfberry, 1000 ml of water

Method

1. Break the fresh lilies into petals and wash them, wash the wolfberries

2. Wash the lotus seeds and brown rice, soak them overnight, put them into a pressure cooker together with the rice water, add 1000 ml of water and cook. .

3. Add fresh lily and wolfberry while it is boiling, continue to simmer for 15 minutes, put it in a bowl, and serve.

Tips

Be sure to choose brown rice to cook porridge. Purple rice and black rice also belong to the category of brown rice. Refined white rice has removed the grain germ part and has no anti-stress effect. The water used for soaking the rice should also be retained, because B vitamins and amino acids are easily soluble in water.

Effects

The porridge is light yellow in color, combined with white lily and orange wolfberry, which is refreshing and vivid. Lotus seeds and lilies are both traditional folk "soothing foods" and are rich in B vitamins and minerals. This ingredient not only has an anti-anxiety effect, but also promotes brain cell metabolism, and is especially suitable for people under stress. .