Post Date December, 03 2023
The weather in autumn and winter is cold and cold. People who are weak are vulnerable to cold and illness. For this reason, in autumn and winter, people should eat more warm food and less cold food.
Cold and warm are the important basis for choosing food during dietotherapy. In hot summer, people are prone to dry mouth, dizziness, nausea and irritability. This is because of the high temperature and humidity in summer, and the heat and humidity are easy to invade the human body. In such weather, people should eat cold food and eat less warm food to eliminate heat. For example, eating watermelon can prevent heatstroke. But if you have to eat mutton on a hot day, you will get drier and drier, and all kinds of uncomfortable problems will come out.
The autumn and winter seasons are just the opposite. The weather in autumn and winter is cold and cold. People who are weak are vulnerable to cold and illness. For this reason, in autumn and winter, people should eat more warm food and less cold food. You can eat more stew, jujube, chili and other foods to increase your body's ability to resist the cold. If you have to do the opposite and eat iced watermelon in cold weather, you will probably have diarrhea.
However, it is only a general statement to eat more warm food in autumn and winter. The temperature, heat, cold and cool of food are like the "air conditioner" that we use to adjust the temperature of human body, which should be adjusted at any time according to the changes of the ambient temperature and the different physical conditions of individuals. For example, when we just enter autumn, the weather is still hot and the temperature is close to summer. At this time, we should not hurry to eat warm food, but eat more cold food like summer. Another example is that in winter, people like to eat more spicy and fatty food, but the indoor temperature of many people is higher than the outdoor temperature, and the result is on the contrary. At this time, you can't eat warm food any more. Instead, you should properly eat some cold food according to your body's acceptance to clear away heat and eliminate fire.
In autumn and winter, in addition to eating more yin tonic foods, we should also pay attention to the changes in the weather environment and our own physique, eat more foods with hot, warm and mild natures in a cold environment, and appropriately eat some foods with cold and cool natures in a warm environment.
Warm food, typically beef, mutton, pepper, leek, ginger, litchi, longan, papaya, walnut, brown sugar, ginseng, cinnamon, etc. In cold weather, in order to dispel the cold, you can eat more of these foods.
Cold and cool food, such as duck meat, tomato, spinach, winter melon, cucumber, balsam pear, watermelon, pear, orange, banana, grapefruit, chrysanthemum, sand ginseng, etc. When the temperature is high or the indoor temperature is high, you can also eat some cold food properly. As long as you are not greedy, there is no obvious discomfort after eating, and it doesn't matter if you eat some properly (except for women during menstruation, pregnancy and lactation). If the living environment is very cold (such as when autumn and winter alternate in the north and there is no heating), people who are afraid of cold should eat less or no such food.
There is a simple method, though not very accurate, to distinguish between foods that are cool and warm in nature. Generally speaking, food with cold nature has more water, and it feels cold in the stomach; The food with warm nature has more spicy and sweet taste, and it feels warm in the stomach. If someone is afraid of cold in the spleen and stomach, and is prone to loose stool in winter without covering the quilt, then he will probably feel uncomfortable in the abdomen after eating cold food; If you eat warm food, you will feel warm and comfortable. In addition, the temperature of food has a little relationship with the cold. The temperature of food eaten in midsummer should be slightly lower to avoid eating hot food; The temperature of food to be eaten in cold winter should be slightly higher. Don't eat cold food. Eating cold dishes in summer can relieve the heat. In winter, we should eat less cold dishes. On the contrary, steaming stews are very suitable for consumption in winter.
(Intern editor: Lin Yanjuan)
