Diet for the Elderly: Food Suitable for Winter

　　Fruits with health and medical effects in winter include pears and sugar cane. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pears have the functions of producing fluid and quenching thirst, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, clearing away heat and reducing fire, nourishing blood and muscle, moistening the lungs and removing dryness, etc., and are most suitable for patients with fever and internal heat in winter. Especially for lung heat cough , children with wind-heat, dry throat, sore throat, dry stool and constipation are more suitable.

　　Modern medical research believes that pears can also lower blood pressure, clear away heat and calm down. For patients with high blood pressure, if they have dizziness, palpitations, tinnitus, etc., eating pears regularly can alleviate their symptoms. Pears are rich in sugar and vitamins, which can protect the liver and help digestion.

　　The main components of sugar cane are water and sugar. The sugar content of sugar cane is composed of fresh sucrose, fructose, Grape Sugar is composed of three components and is easily absorbed by the human body. The rest are nutrients such as protein, fat, vitamin B1, calcium, phosphorus, and iron. In addition, it also contains various amino acids such as glutamic acid, serine, aspartic acid, and lysine, as well as organic acids such as malic acid, citric acid, and succinic acid. People who are overworked or hungry and dizzy can feel refreshed by eating just two sections of sugar cane. However, because sugarcane is cold in nature, it is not suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and stomach and abdominal pain.

　　In addition, fruits suitable for eating in winter include apples, oranges, bananas, hawthorns, etc. Apples can produce fluid and quench thirst, harmonize the spleen and stop diarrhea; oranges can regulate qi and stimulate the appetite, digest food and resolve phlegm; bananas can clear away heat and moisturize the intestines, lower blood pressure and prevent hemorrhoids; hawthorn can expand blood vessels, lower blood lipids, enhance and mediate myocardial function, and have the effect of preventing and treating coronary arteriosclerosis.