What to eat to maintain health during the Great Cold? Six recommended foods to help you stay healthy

What to eat to maintain health during the Great Cold? Six recommended foods to help you stay healthy
The word "health preservation" has become popular in recent years, and more and more people have realized the importance of health preservation. Health preservation actually comes from life, and health preservation can be achieved in all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation. What is the best food to maintain health during the Great Cold season? The twelfth month of the lunar calendar is a month for sacrifices, and there are many festivals that deserve our attention. What should we do during these festivals? The Fortune Teller website has the answer for you.

What to eat to maintain health during the Great Cold? Six recommended foods to help you stay healthy

1. Chicken Soup How refreshing it is to have a bowl of hot chicken soup in the cold winter. Chicken soup is a must-have food for many Nanjing people to maintain their health during the Great Cold. The Great Cold falls around the 49th day of the lunar calendar, and the traditional custom of eating one chicken for every 19th day is still respected by many families. Nanjing people mostly choose old hens, and either stew them alone or add ginseng, wolfberries, black fungus, etc. to stew them together. Drinking chicken soup in the cold winter is really a pleasure.
2. Eight Treasure Rice Pudding There is a folk saying that eating glutinous rice during the Great Cold solar term is because glutinous rice can nourish the body's positive energy. After eating it, the whole body will feel hot, which plays a role in keeping out the cold, nourishing the stomach, and nourishing the body. The most typical food made from glutinous rice is Eight Treasure Rice Pudding. Steam the glutinous rice, mix it with sugar, lard and osmanthus, pour it into a container filled with red dates, coix seeds, lotus seeds, longan meat and other fruit ingredients, steam it and pour the sugar marinade on it. It has a sweet taste and is a great dish for festivals and entertaining guests.
3. Sweet potatoes, this inconspicuous food, is an excellent way to keep warm. Sweet potatoes are rich in dietary fiber, carotene, vitamins, potassium, magnesium and other nutrients. When the weather is cold, drinking a bowl of freshly cooked sweet potato porridge or eating a hot baked sweet potato can help you fight the cold.
4. Red beans: Red beans are a kind of food that can nourish blood and reduce internal heat. Red beans are rich in crude fiber and are very effective in lowering blood lipids and blood pressure. Red bean leaves can treat frequent urination and enuresis; the flowers have the effects of clearing away heat, quenching thirst, sobering up, and detoxifying. In addition, red bean water extract has the functions of organ activity function, and it is rich in iron, which can promote qi and blood, and is very suitable for heart blood. Keep your hands and feet away from cold in winter.
5. Pears are essential for health preservation during the Great Cold. Pears can clear away heat and relieve cough, and are especially suitable for people with internal heat in winter. People with poor physical constitution, especially those with weak spleen and stomach, should not eat pears raw.
6. Oranges Oranges are winter fruits. Eating oranges during the Great Cold can assist in the treatment of hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis and various cardiovascular diseases. They also have the effects of appetizing and regulating qi, relieving cough and moistening the lungs, and sobering up and refreshing the mind. They are mainly used to treat vomiting, loss of appetite, dry mouth, lung heat cough, and excessive drinking.

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