In southern China, people like to eat chickens, ducks and fish in early winter. On this day in beginning of winter, Taiwan Province Province, many families will stew sesame oil chicken and four-course chicken at the wedding of a winter tonic restaurant on the street to replenish energy. ?
Chinese medicine pointed out: "Cold is a yin evil, which often hurts Yang Qi." Man's yang is like the sun in the sky, which gives light and warmth to nature. Without it, everything can't survive. Similarly, if the human body has no yang, its metabolism will lose its vitality. Therefore, beginning of winter nursed back to health should remember the word "Tibet". Dietary care should follow the suggestions of "nourishing yin in autumn and winter", "not disturbing yang" and "tonifying deficiency and warming cold", and adjust diet with the changes of four seasons.
When winter comes, many people are "cold". On the day of "eating": "... it's cold in winter, so we should eat millet to cure its cold with heat." For these people, besides keeping warm, they can eat more foods called thermogenic nutrients such as protein, fat and carbohydrate, and increase the intake of staple food and fat appropriately to ensure the supply of high-quality protein. Recommended food: dog meat, mutton, beef, chicken, venison, shrimp, pigeon, quail, sea cucumber, etc.
Supplementing foods rich in calcium and iron can improve the body's ability to keep out the cold. Calcium-containing foods mainly include milk, bean products, kelp, seaweed, shells, oysters, sardines, shrimp and so on. Iron-containing foods are mainly animal blood, egg yolk, pig liver, soybeans, sesame seeds, black fungus and red dates.
Increasing the intake of vitamin A and vitamin C can also enhance the cold tolerance and adaptability to cold, which has a good protective effect on blood and blood vessels. Vitamin A mainly comes from white animal liver, radish and dark green vegetables, while vitamin C mainly comes from fresh fruits and vegetables.
In addition, people with spleen deficiency and qi deficiency (manifested as fatigue, shortness of breath, anorexia, abdominal distension, loose stool, and fear of cold) can eat more glutinous rice, jujube, lentils, hawthorn, carrots and chestnuts. People who are afraid of cold in winter can eat more mutton, chicken, walnut meat, jujube and longan.
Winter is the off-season for vegetables. Therefore, after a winter, people often have vitamin deficiency, such as vitamin C deficiency, which leads to oral ulcers, root swelling and pain, bleeding, constipation and other symptoms. People can eat some potatoes properly, such as sweet potatoes and potatoes. They are all rich in vitamin C, vitamin B and vitamin A, and red sweet potatoes also contain more carotene. Eating more potatoes can not only supplement vitamins, but also clear the fire. In addition to Chinese cabbage, cabbage, radish heart, white radish, carrot, bean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, rape and so on. It should also be selected in the main course listed in winter. These vegetables are rich in vitamins, so it is necessary to change varieties frequently and mix them reasonably to supplement the human body's demand for vitamins.
In addition, it also varies from person to person, because people are divided into cereal, meat, fruit, vegetables, men and women, old and young, and the body (constitution) is divided into deficiency and excess, cold and heat. Based on the law of people's growth, follow the principles of Chinese medicine health preservation, juvenile re-support, middle-aged re-adjustment, old-age re-care and old-age re-care. Therefore, "winter tonic" should choose clear tonic, warm tonic, small tonic and big tonic according to the actual situation, and must not blindly "tonic". Suitable diets in winter include black sesame porridge, steamed old duck with cordyceps sinensis, tomato and sugar lotus root, etc. It has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, nourishing yin and strengthening yang, invigorating spleen and appetizing, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.