What to eat in cold weather?

Some "fat, sweet and delicious" foods can be added appropriately, but not too much. In winter, the digestive function of human body is more active than in spring, summer and autumn, and the secretion of gastric juice, acidity and food intake increase, which reflects the increase of human body's demand for heat energy in winter. When the body is in a cold environment, in order to maintain body temperature balance, it is necessary to increase the metabolic rate in the body, thus increasing the demand for food, especially for fatty food. Eating the right amount of fat has good cold resistance and freezing resistance, but it should not be too much to prevent hyperlipidemia and obesity.

The nutritional feature of winter diet is to increase calories. Among the three thermogenic nutrients, the intake of protein can be kept at the usual level, and the increase of calories should be mainly ensured by increasing the intake of sugar and fat. Minerals should be maintained at the usual requirement or slightly higher. You can choose foods with high fat content to increase calories. In the supply of vitamins, we should pay special attention to increasing the content of vitamin C. We can eat more vegetables such as radishes, carrots, potatoes and spinach and fruits such as oranges, apples and bananas, and at the same time increase animal livers, lean meat, fresh fish, eggs and beans to ensure the body's demand for vitamins.

There are three kinds of diet conditioning: porridge, porridge for nourishing the heart and relieving annoyance in winter, radish porridge for resolving phlegm, yam porridge for nourishing lung and stomach, walnut porridge for nourishing yin and essence, Poria porridge for invigorating spleen and stomach, jujube porridge for nourishing qi and yin, corn porridge for regulating menstruation and appetizing, and sweet potato porridge for nourishing liver and kidney. Second, it is appropriate to warm the product to take the meaning of yang and yin. If you want to eat beef and mutton, dog meat, longan meat, dates, eggs, yam, pig blood, glutinous rice, leeks and so on. Drinking a small glass of wine for dinner every day in winter is of great benefit to middle-aged and elderly people. Sanyi nuts, eat more walnuts, chestnuts, pine nuts, peanuts, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, black beans and black rice in winter. It should be noted that obese people avoid being fat, sweet and warm.