Friday, June 26, 2009

Rely on food to retain moisture in winter

Beginning of winter has passed, especially the northern areas of heating, indoor air is often dry skin feel rough, lip from skin, dry tongue, weak weak body ... ... These are issued to your body dry signal. At this time, it may be large cup large cup to drink water, but dry air伤阴, drink into how much the number of discharges, so light does not work drink. In fact, we can supplement diet to "Water", nourishing the body up more.

In addition to water, but also eat more fruits and vegetables

Xiyuan Hospital of China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Professor Yang Li, said the dry autumn and winter air, drink the water into a large part of the exhaust along with urine. At this point, the dry air will lead to the body of fire, some may wish to eat more fruits, vegetables, can retain moisture, but also Yangyin Runzao.

In fact, the open food composition table is not difficult to see, vegetables and fruits in general more than 70% moisture content, even eating only 500 grams of fruits and vegetables a day will receive 300-400 ml of water. In addition, it is about day-to-day diet with a thin stem, from three in 1500-2000 ml of water was not difficult. Therefore, may wish to take full advantage of the opportunity to eat three meals a day to pay. In addition to drink water every day, the choice of some fruits and vegetables and the soup is not salty porridge, almost on a daily basis have a good effect.

"White food" to prevent dry

So, what food do the most pay? Chinese medicine practitioners believe that the lifting of the use of heat-Run Law. According to the principle of Muller's elements, it may eat some of the "white food." Cooking, you can choose white radish, Chinese cabbage, wax gourd, lily, white fungus, lotus root, lotus seed and so on. Among them, Chinese cabbage, radish both "popular vegetables," the effectiveness of the best can be described as the most cost-effective a tonic. "Compendium of Materia Medica," the turnip that is "the most useful vegetables" and a variety of white radish contain vitamins and minerals, including vitamin C content of the pears and apples than 8-10 times higher; and Chinese cabbage are rich in vitamin C , E, to prevent dry skin caused by heat, which can promote peristalsis of the cellulose to prevent constipation caused by body heat. Yet it must be noted, gastrointestinal cold people should eat less in winter. Eating fruit, the pear is the "Water King", which not only increases the water intake, vitamin supplement is also beneficial.

Cooking methods, ingredients can be used to do something more than the flow succulent food, such as soup Sydney to Sydney, tremella, Lily cooked together, adding some lotus root starch, there Qingre Sheng Jin, the effectiveness of Huatan Moistening Lung; Lily philoxeroides small millet Calligonum congee, a Ziyin Runzao, Bufei Yangxin, the role of Shengjin Jianpi for consumption in the dry autumn; In addition, a number of winter melon soup pot, lotus root soup, white carrot peanut soup, cabbage soup.

Yang also reminded, the best winter morning drink a glass of honey water, or milk or milk for breakfast by adding some honey, can effectively alleviate the dry skin in winter less oil, the body heat of the symptoms of fire plot.

Eat more acid, less salt

Winter should pay attention to two points.

First, by Xin less acid. China-Japan Friendship Hospital Professor Li Peiwen, the diet should be based on spleen, liver, mainly Qingfei should eat hawthorn, grapefruit, pomegranates, apples and other fruits, because it contains tannic acid, organic acids, cellulose and other substances, can stimulate the secretion of digestive juice, to accelerate the role of gastric peristalsis may Ziyin Runzao. In addition, eating spicy food, such as onions, ginger, garlic, pepper, pepper, so as to avoid adding fuel to the fire, add to dry lung symptoms.

Second, eat less salt. More than a predisposing factor pharyngitis is inflammation, heat, dry, autumn and human resistance to the weak, the incidence more easily repeated. This is the time you take a look at whether or not their food is too salty. If the meals are too high in salt content, will lead to reduced secretion of saliva and is conducive to a variety of bacterial survival in the upper respiratory tract; high-salt diet may also reduce the ability of mucosal resistance to diseases, make a variety of bacteria, viruses get the opportunity to induce pharyngitis . In addition, the roasted seeds and nuts, such as melon seeds, peanuts like to eat, these foods and salty and dry, and the same is the great enemy of the throat.

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