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Guide to healthy diet in summer

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Eat 3 melons in summer to clear away heat and relieve summer heat and relax bowels.

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Watermelon can clear away heat and quench thirst

Speaking of summer, how come there are few watermelons?

Watermelon is more than 90% water, about 6% sugar, and it also contains potassium and lycopene, which can not only relieve summer heat and thirst, but also has high nutritional value!

China folk proverb says: Eat watermelon in summer, and you don't need to catch medicine. It shows that watermelon is most suitable for eating in summer and summer, which can not only relieve summer heat and sweat, but also replenish water, and is known as the king of summer fruits and vegetables.

Taboo 1. Diabetic patients should not eat.

People with diabetes eat too many watermelons in a short period of time, not only will their blood sugar rise, but their condition may be serious, which may lead to acidosis and even life-threatening.

Taboo 2. People with weak body and cold stomach should not eat more.

Watermelon is a cold product. If there are too many people with weak body and cold stomach, it will lead to abdominal distension and diarrhea, loss of appetite, accumulation of cold and dampness.

Taboo 3. People with renal insufficiency are inedible.

In patients with renal insufficiency, the kidney's ability to regulate water is obviously reduced, and excessive water entering the body cannot be regulated and excreted, resulting in a sharp increase in blood volume and easy death due to acute heart failure.

Taboo 4. You can't eat watermelon at the beginning of a cold.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that both wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds belong to exterior syndrome at the initial stage, and divergent treatment should be adopted to solve the pathogenic factors from the exterior, and it is believed that attacking them before the exterior is solved will aggravate the condition. Watermelon has the function of clearing away internal heat, so eating watermelon at this time will aggravate the cold or prolong the course of the disease.

Taboo 5. Watermelons that have been opened for too long are not edible.

In summer, the temperature is high, and bacteria are easy to multiply. Watermelon that is opened for too long is easy to produce a large number of germs, which will lead to gastrointestinal discomfort if eaten. Therefore, when eating watermelons, attention should be paid to choosing ripe fresh watermelons, and it is best to eat them at that time.

Taboo six, ice watermelon should be eaten less

Although eating iced watermelon has a good effect of relieving summer heat on a hot day, it is very irritating to the stomach and easy to cause damage to the spleen and stomach, so we should pay attention to grasping the delicious temperature and quantity.

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Bitter gourd can relieve summer heat and reduce fire

Bitter gourd, bitter and cool, is good for digestion, and can clear away heat, purge fire and dispel summer heat, which can be regarded as the first melon in hot summer.

Not only that, bitter gourd has low calories and helps to lose weight; The momordica charantia saponin contained in it has similar effect to insulin and has obvious hypoglycemic effect; Bitter gourd can also vent the heat in the heart and expel toxins from the body; Enhance the vitality of cortex, make skin tender and fit.

It's hot in summer, so it's good to eat bitter in moderation. People who are not used to eating bitter gourd can blanch with boiling water to remove the bitterness.

There are three ways to get rid of bitter gourd.

The bitter taste of bitter gourd has discouraged many people. How to suffer? Recommend 3 coup:

Blanching with water: Slice or cut bitter gourd, blanch in boiling water 1 min or so, and the bitterness can be effectively removed.

Salting: Sprinkle salt on the sliced melon, mix well, and drain the seeping water.

Soaking: Soak the melon slices in cold water for about 10 minute, and change the water once or twice.

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Loofah laxatives and moistens intestines.

Luffa, sweet in nature, cool and slightly cold, has the effects of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxicating, relieving summer heat and relieving annoyance.

How to choose fresh and tender loofah?

It is better to have a green color, a melon shape and complete white hair. Don't buy a loofah with a big belly, because the loofah with a big belly is generally older and has more seeds inside.

Luffa is fresh and tender, and it is a good choice to make soup and stir-fry meat.

Bitter towel gourd is poisonous, so don't eat it!

Bitter Luffa contains bitter cucurbitacin (alkali glycoside toxin), which can cause acute poisoning symptoms, such as vomiting and diarrhea, gastrointestinal bleeding, liver and kidney function damage, and even lead to death in severe cases.

Therefore, if you find a bitter taste when eating loofah, you should throw it away decisively and clean and disinfect the used kitchen knife and pot.

Eat 3 beans in summer to protect your eyes and increase your immunity.

1, soybean

Soybean, that is, fresh soybean with pods. Fresh edamame is bright green in color and tender in taste, but with the gradual reduction of water, the color changes from green to yellow, and the figure becomes round. After completely drying, it is the familiar soybean.

Soybeans are rich in vitamin C, about twice as much as soybean sprouts.

It is also rich in dietary fiber, and its potassium content is among the best in vegetables, which can help relieve fatigue and loss of appetite; B vitamins are also very rich, especially vitamin B 1. For people who mainly eat polished rice flour, eating fresh beans such as tender edamame is a very good "food supplement" method.

In addition, because it has pods, it is relatively safe "green food" with less phytotoxicity and insect pests.

Recommended practice: salted edamame

Cut off both ends of edamame with scissors, add a proper amount of water in the pot, add star anise, cinnamon, licorice and salt, add edamame after the water is boiled, cook for 8~ 10 minutes, turn off the heat, and soak for taste.

Soybeans must be cooked and eaten. If it is not cooked, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain may occur after eating it.

2. Peas

Peas are seasonal vegetables.

It is rich in vitamin A and has the therapeutic effect of eye protection. In addition, its vitamin C content is relatively high, which is delicious and helps to improve immunity.

Office workers who face the computer all day can have an eye-care meal-

Stir-fried peas, carrots and corn are not only delicious in color, but also nutritious, which can effectively relieve dry eyes and discomfort.

Peas are nutritious and easy to digest, and can be eaten by children and the elderly.

3, lentils

Lentils strengthen the spleen, regulate the middle energizer, nourish the stomach and lower qi, and have the effect of eliminating summer heat and dampness.

This is just "symptomatic" for a climate with high temperature and heavy humidity.

Moreover, the dietary fiber content of the edible part of lentils per100g is 4.4g, which is more than three times that of celery which is rich in dietary fiber. Usually, people who eat more polished rice and white flour, and are prone to constipation and fire due to insufficient cellulose in their bodies can eat more lentils.

Drink 3 teas to replenish qi and blood and drive away moisture.

1, ginger jujube tea tonifies blood and deficiency

Summer is hot, the human body is open, and the yang in the body is empty.

At this time, drinking a cup of ginger jujube tea can not only replenish the deficiency of yang in the body to warm the middle, but also help the yang to disperse to expel cold. Just in line with the purpose of "nourishing yang in spring and summer" in Huangdi Neijing.

Practice of ginger jujube tea

The practice of ginger jujube tea is very simple: boil ginger, red dates and medlar together into tea to drink.

Raw materials:

6 red dates, a handful of medlar, a dozen peppers, and 4 slices of ginger (ginger should not be peeled, and the amount of ginger should not be small, and the boiled water should taste a little spicy), and the red dates should be pitted.

Practice:

Add a proper amount of water and cook until it is light red. The body is cold and afraid of cold, so I added a few more pepper and boiled it into pepper ginger jujube tea, which has a stronger effect of eliminating cold and dampness.

The above amount is 2 cups, and the weight can be increased. Soak more ginger jujube tea, cool it, put it in a clean bottle and put it in the refrigerator for refrigeration. When to drink water, scoop up two spoonfuls, and you can drink it as soon as you brew it with boiling water.

2, dandelion purslane tea spleen and dampness

Ingredients: Dandelion root, adzuki bean, Coix seed, Lophatherum gracile, Portulaca oleracea, Sophora japonica, Euryale euryales and green tea.

Practice:

1, cleaning wild dandelion roots, cutting into sections, baking and frying to make tea for later use;

2, red beans, coix seed, fried, spare;

3. Wash the lophatherum gracile leaves and stir-fry them to make tea for later use;

4. Purslane, washed and dried for later use;

5. Stir-fry Flos Sophorae Immaturus, green tea and make tea for later use;

6. Take 0.7g of dandelion root, 0.7g of adzuki bean 1.7g of coix seed, 0.2g of lophatherum gracile, 0.0g of purslane, 0.3g of Sophora japonica, 0.3g of Euryale euryales and 0.2g of green tea, and crush them all to make the tea bag.

Dandelion is good at dispelling damp-heat, purging fire, diuresis and dehumidification, and improving nausea, yellow tongue coating, redness and acne caused by damp-heat.

Portulaca oleracea, which belongs to spleen and large intestine meridian, has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness.

Adzuki bean, spleen and dampness, detumescence and detoxification, Coix seed, stomach and intestines, edema, spleen and stomach. Euryale ferox, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, strengthening kidney and stopping diarrhea.

Lophatherum gracile leaves are good at absorbing moisture and releasing heat. Sophora japonica can cool blood, stop bleeding, clear liver and purge fire. Green tea does not ferment, but almost all the ingredients are preserved, and the effect of eliminating dampness is the best!

Several kinds of collocation together, to remove damp heat in the body, the effect is particularly good, might as well try!

3. Three-way tea nourishes the liver and relieves summer heat

Sanqi flowers promote blood circulation, roses promote ventilation, and chrysanthemums promote pores, which are called "three links". Drinking a dose every day in summer can relieve the sweltering heat in summer, calm the liver and relieve summer heat.

It should be noted that roses have a good astringent effect, but long-term excessive drinking will lead to poor stool. Therefore, constipation should not drink rose tea for a long time.

Practice: Prepare 2 grams of Panax notoginseng flowers, 3 grams of chrysanthemums, 3 grams of roses and 3 grams of licorice. First, put licorice into 1500 ml of water and boil it. After 10 minute, put three kinds of flowers in, and continue to cook for 5 minutes with low heat, and then turn off the fire.