Why don't you want to eat in summer?
Don't be too cold for breakfast
Because of poor appetite in summer, many people choose not to eat breakfast or eat very little. However, in summer, the metabolism of the human body is accelerated, and a lot of nutrition needs to be supplemented. If you don't eat breakfast, your blood sugar can't be replenished, people will feel tired, unable to concentrate, and even have limbs weakness, dizziness, palpitation, collapse and other symptoms, which will eventually lead to coma and convulsions, which is called "hypoglycemia shock" in medicine. Therefore, breakfast in summer is more important.
In addition, although many people eat a hearty breakfast, it is too cold, and they are greedy for all kinds of cold food, such as fruit and vegetable juice, iced coffee, iced juice, mung bean paste or iced milk. This is also not desirable. Eating cold breakfast can stimulate appetite for a short time, but it will damage gastrointestinal function for a long time, cause flatulence and indigestion, and aggravate the degree of loss of appetite.
Therefore, even if the weather is hot, hot porridge, hot soybean milk, hot milk, hot noodle soup and eggs should be the main breakfast in summer, and then cold foods such as fruits should be eaten after a while.
Lunch is mainly light.
In summer, human body loses a lot of water, and the gastrointestinal digestive function is weakened, which affects people's appetite. Therefore, the summer diet should be light, which is beneficial to digestion and absorption. For lunch, you can eat more foods with the functions of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat and appetizing, such as lotus seeds, eggplant, fresh lotus roots, mung bean sprouts, loofah and cucumber. In addition, some beans, such as lentils, mung beans, black beans and so on. It has the functions of relieving summer-heat, quenching thirst, clearing away heat and toxic materials, strengthening spleen and benefiting kidney, and should also be eaten properly.
Summer is still a fruitful season. Eating some fruits after meals, such as watermelon, apricot, litchi and peach, can supplement a lot of trace elements lost with sweat, which is very beneficial to health. Of course, eating fruit can't be cold. It is best not to put it in the refrigerator before eating, so as not to damage the spleen and stomach.
Dietary nutrition experts reminded that although the summer diet is mainly light, we should not blindly pursue light, so we should pay attention to the combination of meat and vegetables and balanced nutrition. You can't just eat vegetarian food such as vegetables and fruits. You can eat some meaty foods, such as ducks, loaches, fish and so on. To supplement protein and fat, and enhance resistance.
Don't eat too much for dinner.
For many people, dinner should be the most relaxing of the three meals a day. Due to the rush of time, breakfast and lunch are inevitably "sloppy" and cannot be comprehensive. So they often eat and drink at dinner, giving consideration to both meat and vegetables, and so on. The result is too rich, too greasy, or too full.
Experts remind that eating too much, too greasy or too full at dinner will damage your health, because foods that the human body can't absorb will produce a variety of toxic substances in the intestines and induce cancer. In addition, eating too much at dinner will increase the burden of internal organs such as liver and islet, and cause diseases such as liver cirrhosis and insulin B cell failure.
And eating too much dinner will also affect sleep, because flatulence in the stomach will oppress the surrounding organs, and the nerve "work" of the digestive organs will lead to active brain, which will make the cerebral cortex too excited and cause insomnia.
Finally, experts reminded that people sweat too much in summer, so they should pay attention to drinking more water; Don't rely too much on spicy food to stimulate appetite; People with hot constitution should try to avoid eating mutton, dog meat, hairtail and eel isothermal food.