Summer diet and health. What to eat to cool down in summer?

　　Summer has come to us, and the temperature has begun to change. In summer, the days are longer and the nights are shorter, and people have begun to suffer from loss of appetite. So what should we pay attention to when eating in summer? What can you eat to cool down? Let’s take a look together!

　　There are many things you need to pay attention to when eating in summer. Do not eat spicy and greasy food. Otherwise, you will easily suffer from indigestion.

　　Summer Five Flavors is here to help

　　1. Acid

　　Excessive sweating in summer can easily damage yin. Eating sour food can reduce sweating, stop diarrhea, and has the effect of astringing and fixing astringency. The combination of sour and sweet can nourish yin and moisturize dryness. For example, black plums are neutral in nature and sour in taste. In summer, they can be boiled with sugar to make a sour plum soup drink. It is not only sour and sweet, can produce body fluids and quench thirst, clear away heat and relieve summer heat, but also has the functions of appetizing and astringent, reducing inflammation and stopping dysentery. Other foods include lemons, bayberries, kumquats, star fruits, etc. Summer is hot, people's appetite decreases, and they eat more cold dishes. Add some vinegar appropriately, which can kill and inhibit a variety of bacteria and viruses, especially to prevent intestinal infectious diseases and epidemics. cold and respiratory tract disease occurrence.

　　2. Sweet

　　apple juice, Grape juice, pineapple juice, tomato Juice, pineapple juice, etc. are rich in nutrients, such as multiple vitamins, sugars, minerals, etc., and are alkaline foods. They can not only replenish vitamins and water lost by the body, but also eliminate fatigue and increase energy. They can also help digestion and increase appetite.

　　3. Bitter

　　There is a lot of rain in summer and the air is very humid, making it easy to get sick, so eat more bitter foods, which can increase your appetite and improve your spleen and stomach. Eating bitter food regularly can also clear away heat, detoxify and diuretic! For example, cold bitter melon, stir-fried bitter melon with sliced ​​meat, lotus seed soup with rock sugar, and kuding mixed with green tea.

　　4. Spicy

　　Spicy food can dredge blood vessels, circulate Qi and blood, and enhance the body's resistance. In summer, when meals are not fragrant and the appetite decreases, adding some chili peppers to the dishes can promote the secretion of digestive juices, improve appetite, increase appetite, inhibit abnormal fermentation in the intestines, and enhance physical strength. Garlic is also known as "penicillin that grows in the ground". It has a strong killing effect on staphylococci, Escherichia coli, Shigella dysenteriae, Typhoid bacilli, Anthrax, cholera bacteria, molds, viruses, parasites and other pathogenic bacteria. In the hot summer, eating more garlic can prevent influenza and treat infectious diseases.

　　5. Salty

　　Excessive sweating can take away a lot of salt from the body. Drinking some light salt water can not only replenish water but also replenish salt and adjust the balance of water and electrolytes in the body.

　　Two ways to adjust balance

　　1. Eat small and frequent meals

　　The summer heat is unbearable and appetite decreases. You should eat small and frequent meals, eight times full, to supplement nutrition in small amounts and multiple times.

　　2. Polydipsia and polyuria

　　Drink more water to replenish body fluids lost through sweating； Urinate frequently to eliminate large amounts of toxins accumulated in the body.

　　Three refreshing drinks for summer

　　Pretty in Pink

　　Ingredients: pear, peach, pineapple, grapefruit.

　　practice:

　　1. Sweet pineapple, peach, grapefruit, water.

　　2. Wash and dice the fruit. For ordinary pineapple, soak it in salt water before use.

　　3. Pour the fruit into the mesh of the food processor and add some water.

　　4. Start the machine and beat twice.

　　5. You can also use a juicer to squeeze juice directly. Because my pineapple is too sweet, I chose a food processor to make juice.

　　Winter melon tea

　　Ingredients: 800g winter melon, 100g brown sugar, 100g rock sugar.

　　practice:

　　1. Wash the winter melon, cut into cubes (retain the skin and seeds), add brown sugar, mix well, and let stand in the pot for about 15 minutes.

　　2. Put the winter melon into the pot together with the brown sugar water and rock sugar. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn down the heat and keep it at a slight boil until the syrup becomes thick and the winter melon becomes coffee The color is transparent.

　　3. Strain the cooked juice, let it cool, seal it in a clean glass bottle, and store it in the refrigerator. When drinking, dilute it with warm water or ice water, and you can control the sweetness by yourself.

　　Chrysanthemum lotus seed mung bean drink

　　Materials: mung beans, chrysanthemums, lotus seed hearts, rock sugar.

　　practice:

　　1. Add mung beans, rock sugar and water to boil.

　　2. Pour the boiled mung bean water into a cup with chrysanthemum and lotus seed hearts. Let it cool down and drink it ice-cold.

　　99 warm reminder from enthusiastic doctors In summer, the heat in the body is heavy, so you should pay attention to your diet and eat less spicy and barbecue foods, especially barbecue with cold beer, which can easily hurt your stomach and easily cause gout.