How to eat and drink in summer? You can eat well in summer.
What should we pay attention to in summer solar terms diet?
Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables.
Most vegetables and fruits are cold. It has the effects of nourishing body fluid, moistening dryness, clearing heat and relaxing bowels, and contains a lot of water. Fruits and vegetables are also rich in vitamin C, vitamin B, inorganic salts and cellulose, which can improve the adverse effects of drying on human body. However, fresh fruits and vegetables must be eaten in moderation.
Eat more foods that nourish yin and moisten dryness.
Autumn is drier. If you don't pay attention to nourishing yin and moistening dryness, you will be easily injured by dryness. Therefore, we should eat more dry foods such as tremella, lily, lotus seeds, honey, sesame seeds and beans on weekdays to prevent autumn dryness.
Eat less spicy food.
In midsummer, many friends feel a little dry in the morning and their skin is dry. Although they drank a large glass of warm water, they didn't feel very thirsty. This is because the summer solar term climate is getting drier and drier, which is often called autumn dryness. In such a solar term, we need to pay attention to the principle of diet and try to eat less spicy and greasy food. Daily diet should avoid spicy and dry, spicy, barbecue, fried food easy to get angry, damage vaginal fluid, aggravate the symptoms of autumn dryness.
Eat more sour food.
The story of "looking at plum to quench thirst" shows that acidic food has a very strong effect of nourishing yin, and even before eating it, the effect of moistening dryness has already come out.
Therefore, in summer, we should eat more seasonal sour fruits, such as hawthorn and grapes, while we should eat less or not eat cold fruits like watermelon.
Pay attention to proper intake of protein.
In autumn, the temperature is gradually decreasing, and the cool breeze is blowing gently, so people are easy to catch a cold. Especially those who are weak, we must take some measures to keep healthy. For example, moderate intake of protein will help improve the body's immunity. Among them, foods rich in high-quality protein include dairy products, fish, lean pork, bean products and eggs.
Drink more soup and porridge.
Usually, you may wish to use traditional Chinese medicines such as lotus seeds, Euryale ferox and yam to make soup or porridge. For example, stewed duck with melon and lotus seeds, stewed glutinous rice with yam, stewed pork belly with money grass and stewed fish soup with red beans are all good products in summer.
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After a summer of "suffering", many people's spleen and stomach function is relatively weak, and their appetite is not strong. Therefore, don't eat too strong food, don't overeat, and eat less cold and indigestible food. It's still hot and humid, so it's more suitable for eating foods that strengthen the spleen, eliminate dampness and nourish the stomach, such as adzuki beans, coix seed, lotus seeds, lentils and winter melon, and you can also eat some tuckahoe, such as tuckahoe cakes.