Timely adjustment of the winter diet 
  


  

  

 

Chinese Medicine News 

  

  


  
    Warming the food may eat the weak
    Studies have shown that the winter cold affects the body's endocrine system, so that the body's hormone, increased secretion of adrenaline, etc., so as to promote and accelerate the protein, fat, carbohydrates three categories of heat decomposition of nutrients to enhance the body's ability to keep out the cold would have resulted in excessive body heat loss. Therefore, to increase the heat in winter nutrition should be based, may be appropriate intake of foods rich in carbohydrates and fat.
    If you ignore the body's own physiological cold tolerance, and rely exclusively on the food cold, excessive consumption of high-energy high-fat food and wine and so on, down the winter, a fat, people that have "a long winter and long belly and waist" argument, while also to the original fat or cardiovascular function to those in poor, brought many adverse effects. Therefore, proper diet and food intake in winter conditioning, the key to self-care during the winter.
    Weak without severe physical illness, according to the actual situation of their own bodies, the appropriate selection of some medicinal and edible food, such as jujube, Gorgon, Coix seed, peanuts, walnuts, black sesame, lotus seeds, yams, lentils, dried longan, hawthorn, caramel, etc., coupled with nutrient-rich foods, you can achieve the purpose of fortification against the cold.
    Obesity should be frequent meals
    For obese people, winter is a good opportunity to reduce weight. At this point, obesity dinner should be light and should be eating. As night human xenobiotic effect, and nutrients into fat and stored easily, while a small amount of evening activities, sumptuous dinner, then rise to elevated blood lipids, and easy-to-deposition in the vascular wall, planted for the atherosclerosis risk. Eat even more dynamic, research shows that consumption of fat and lean people during the night the heat is approximately equal. The key is the day, less fat activity, activity inside the body tends to slow that heat accumulated into fat.
    In general, fat people are the best frequent meals: the same food to eat into more than 5 times, compared to three meals a day, without loss of nutrient intake, but the body produces much less heat. This is because each meal decrease food intake, may reduce blood insulin levels and increased fatty acid combustion.
    In the cold winter, many women feel all cold, hand, foot and other peripheral parts of even worse. Women's winter should increase the intake of salts and vitamins, especially calcium and iron should have adequate supply. Eat more green vegetables and foods high in iron content, such as egg yolk, beef, liver, kidney, seaweed, beans and so on. Less tea, because the tannic acid in tea will hinder iron absorption.
    Nutritionists point out that women should have a daily intake of 18 mg of iron. Cold in addition to guarantee women's food intake, adequate intake of calories, should be conscious to eat more iron-rich foods, such as animal liver, lamb, beef, fish, eggs, black fungus, milk, beans and green leafy vegetables, but also eat more foods containing iodine such as kelp, jellyfish, marine fish, shrimp and so on. This winter, the phenomenon of hand, foot and will be eased cold.
    The elderly and children, increase the quality of protein
    Elderly, children and physical weakness, chronic wasting disease in patients with poor physiological tolerance to cold, cold is a big threat to them, especially the need for high quality protein. Protein, fat and carbohydrates to keep a reasonable proportion of the three, the three should be separately accounted for 13% to 15%, 25% ~ 35%, 60% to 70% is appropriate. Normal body temperature of cold and the elderly Yichi hot food such as ginger, lamb, dog, garlic, etc., should not eat green beans, pear, bitter gourd, wax gourd, water chestnuts, fungus and other cold or cool food; span of the elderly are the opposite. The elderly should pay attention to proper diet, eat 3 meals a day to eight full. Usually pay attention to eat milk, eggs, fish, soy products and so on. Also, Eat less sugar, drink plenty of water.
    Winter temperatures, reduced sweating, easily lead to a variety of digestive juice secretion, it increased appetite, elevated blood sugar is also one of the factors. Therefore, diabetic patients must keep in mind that diet is the basis for the treatment of diabetes. Diabetic patients should be under the guidance of a doctor, according to their scientific diet program developed to control the staple food, not eat dessert. Those who have hunger, increase non-staple food, such as soy products, dairy products, eat more fresh vegetables to meet the body needs.
    In addition, cold winter tonic, adjust your diet at the same time, cold tolerance of exercise should be conducted so as to enhance capacity to adapt. If ignoring the body's own physiological cold tolerance, and rely exclusively on the food cold, excessive consumption of high-energy high-fat food and wine, etc., and processing center of gravity can cause disease. Therefore, should adhere to the appropriate winter sports, such as tai chi, walking, playing, etc., so that can promote metabolism, accelerate blood circulation, enhance gastrointestinal absorption of nutrients, the real benefit to the purpose of food. (Feng Huang)