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Dahe Network News "The leaves are pale, and the white dew is frost." Going out early in the morning, a layer of dew on the windshield of the car may make us think that it is already a white dew solar term. At this time, the crops are about to ripen, and autumn is getting stronger and stronger. "What should I eat in this solar term?" "How to 'stick autumn fat'?" These topics are very popular on Weibo, Douyin, Xiaohongshu and other platforms. "In this solar term with a large temperature difference between morning and evening, little rain and dry air, we must pay special attention to eating and living." Recently, the reporter specially invited Zhang Xiaoyan, associate professor of the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Zhongjing College) of Henan University of Chinese Medicine, to support netizens.
External nourishment and internal solution "autumn dryness" Winter reserve "sticking autumn fat"
"Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes that 'nature and man correspond to each other', and that man and nature are one whole." Zhang Xiaoyan told reporters that the autumn weather gradually cools, the yang of the human body begins to gradually converge inward, and the yin and jin also enter with it, so it is easy to appear at this time the phenomenon of clear and dry skin, which is called "autumn dryness" in traditional Chinese medicine.
"It is recommended that everyone can relieve 'autumn dryness' through diet therapy and external nourishment." Zhang Xiaoyan believes that after a long summer, most people sleep late, sweat more, the human body's righteousness, yin and jin consumption is relatively large, coupled with the general poor appetite in summer, the diet is relatively light, after entering the autumn season to supplement through diet, do a good job of winter reserves, this is the need for "sticking autumn fat".
Get angry? Gain weight? "Sticking autumn fat" ≠ "eating only meat"
"Meat is rich in protein and fat, making it great for supplementation." However, the significance of sticking autumn fat is to supplement the qi and jin consumed by the human body in summer, so that the body can accumulate enough energy to resist the cold of autumn and winter, which is not the so-called "fattening". Now it is more common for people to overnourish, blindly carrying out strong supplements not only does not have the effect of nourishment, but also affects the health of the body. "Five grains for nourishment, five fruits for help, five animals for benefit, five vegetables for filling, smell and serving, to replenish lean qi." This is the principle of dietary matching given in the Neijing. "Therefore, eating meat is only one of 'sticking autumn fat', and you should pay attention to nutritional balance when supplementing." Zhang Xiaoyan told reporters.
"The same is true for some people who will catch fire after 'sticking autumn fat'." On the one hand, it is related to the climate, the weather is dry, dry and easy to turn into fire, and this season is prone to dry mouth, dry throat, red eyes and other fire manifestations; On the other hand, eating too much spicy food or meat is also prone to fire.
Eat in season White food to help!
Summer diets are often based on watermelon, cold drinks, plus blowing air conditioning, which is easy to damage the yang of the spleen and stomach. "If you suddenly supplement a large amount of meat and other foods, the spleen and stomach are not easy to absorb." Zhang Xiaoyan believes that it is necessary to "stick autumn fat" "step by step".
In addition, "dry" is the characteristic of autumn climate, and "sticking to autumn" pays attention to eating in season. In autumn, the lungs are seasoned, the climate is dry, and the five elements are gold, corresponding to white. "So most white food has the effect of moisturizing the lungs." Zhang Xiaoyan recommended that netizens can eat pears, lotus root, sugar cane, water chestnuts, lilies, silver fungus, huaiyam, etc. Yam is a common medicinal and food ingredient, which has the effect of "nourishing the lungs and moisturizing". After cooking, lotus root becomes a warm ingredient, which can remove autumn dryness and moisturize the lungs. Silver fungus soup is a good product for nourishing and moisturizing. Sydney has a very high water content, and has the effect of moisturizing the lungs and relieving cough, generating and dissolving phlegm.
However, most white foods have a cool taste and are easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, "for weak spleen and stomach function, old age and weak and children, pay attention not to use, heat treatment after eating is also a good method."
Cool breeze in the summer and drink white dew tea
"Traditional health care advocates people to adapt to the four seasons and eat seasonal food, and the Bailu season is another growth period for tea plants, and the people have the habit of drinking Bailu tea." He Wei, director of the tea science department of the College of Horticulture of Henan Agricultural University, told reporters that Bailu tea is tea made before and after Bailu in different tea production areas, which belongs to autumn tea. Just as the so-called "spring tea bitter, summer tea astringent, to drink tea, autumn white dew", autumn can be appropriate to drink black tea, flower tea, strong aroma oolong tea, Pu'er ripe tea, etc. Tea soup dissolves fats and helps digest foods such as meat and oils.
Drinking white dew tea is also particular. "For example, we eat fritters, oil cakes, baked steamed buns and other foods with more fat and carbohydrates, and most teas can be used to relieve greasy." If the food of "sticking autumn fat" is rich in protein, such as grilled fish, grilled meat, fried meat, stewed meat, roasted meat, etc., you need to choose black tea, Pu'er ripe tea and other heavily fermented teas to relieve greasy. "As the saying goes, 'Coarse tea, light rice, green vegetables, tofu keep safe.'" He Wei suggested that netizens should not be too greasy in their daily diet, and after "sticking autumn fat" in the dry autumn and eating a full meal, you may wish to drink a cup of tea to relieve your greasyness. (Wang Yixiao, Dong Lei, Intern, Cao Yutong)