As the old saying goes, "Don't be greedy, children, it's the New Year after Laba". Today's Laba Festival, just like the nursery rhyme, means that the Spring Festival has begun, and the flavor of the New Year is getting stronger day by day. In this beautiful season of reunion, how to maintain health?
Laba health principles
1. Protect against cold and keep warm
The old people often say that "Laba is the coldest time of the year", before and after Laba is the coldest time of the year, we must do a good job of cold and warmth, wear warm clothes when going out, wear a scarf and hat, and pay attention to the warmth of the head, neck, waist and joints. Before going to bed, you can soak your feet in hot water to keep them warm and cold.
2. Go to bed early and get up late
"Neijing" proposes to "go to bed early and get up late in winter, in order to wait for the sun", winter is the season of "Tibetan cultivation", going to bed early helps to maintain yang, getting up late helps to accumulate yin essence, getting up late refers to getting up after the sun comes out, in addition, be careful not to cover your head to sleep. Because the air in the bed is not circulated, sleeping with your head covered will reduce the blood oxygen saturation in the human body, and you will have symptoms such as dizziness, listlessness, and memory loss when you get up.
3. Exercise appropriately
In winter, the climate is cold, and people tend to feel stiff and lack of vitality, so doing a moderate amount of exercise can keep the body active, promote blood circulation, enhance immunity, and improve the body's ability to resist cold. You can choose aerobic exercises such as jogging, yoga, skipping rope, and brisk walking. When the outdoor temperature is low, you can choose indoor exercise to avoid getting cold when exercising outdoors. Especially middle-aged and elderly people should try not to go out on cloudy, snowy and windy days.
Everything is "porridge".
On the Laba Festival, there is a custom of drinking Laba porridge, and "porridge" has the effect of preserving stomach qi and storing fluid in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine. In this cold winter, drinking a bowl of steaming Laba porridge can increase the body's heat, warm the stomach and warm the heart, and you can have all the "porridge" in the coming year.
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Laba four-color health porridge
1. Red porridge - nourishes qi and blood
Ingredients: blood glutinous rice, red beans, red dates, wolfberry, red-skinned peanuts, brown sugar
Efficacy: Wuhong porridge is a medicinal porridge that nourishes qi and blood, and has the effects and functions of beautifying and nourishing the skin, strengthening the spleen and stomach, replenishing qi and nourishing blood, warming the uterus and nourishing the kidney.
Contraindications: Wuhong porridge contains high calories and carbohydrates, excessive consumption is easy to cause blood sugar rise, gastrointestinal discomfort, etc., so for diabetics, people with weak spleen and stomach and poor digestion, it is not advisable to eat too much.
2. Yellow porridge - nourishes the stomach and spleen
Ingredients: millet, corn residue, pumpkin, yam
Efficacy: Replenish deficiency, reconcile the spleen and stomach, replenish the middle and invigorate qi, especially suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach. This porridge can protect the gastric mucosa, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis, help food digestion, and is suitable for the elderly and children.
Contraindications: Millet pumpkin porridge has a high sugar content, and is easy to be digested and absorbed, and the glycemic index is relatively high, so diabetics should eat it in moderation.
3. White porridge - moistens the lungs and relieves cough
Ingredients: rice, white fungus, lotus seeds, lily, wolfberry
Efficacy: Moisturize the lungs and relieve cough, nourish yin and nourish the skin, nourish the spleen and kidney, and is suitable for improving symptoms such as dry cough, weakness and restlessness.
Contraindications: The lilies and lotus seeds in the white fungus lily lotus seed porridge are cold, for patients with wind chill and cold, elderly and frailty, poor digestion, and gastrointestinal bleeding, it may aggravate the patient's symptoms after eating, so it is not recommended to eat.
4. Black porridge - nourishing the kidneys and invigorating qi
Ingredients: black rice, black beans, black sesame seeds, dried black mulberries, black goji berries
Efficacy: Nourish yin and kidney, invigorate qi and blood, enhance immunity, and can be used to improve symptoms caused by kidney deficiency such as soreness in waist and knees, tinnitus, hair loss, and gray hair.
Contraindications: Because black rice and black sesame seeds are relatively high in calories, eating a large amount of them will lead to excessive calorie intake and blood sugar rise, so diabetic patients should minimize the consumption of black rice and black sesame porridge;
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There are "four unsuitables" for eating laba porridge
1. People with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more sticky food
Glutinous rice is usually added to Laba congee to increase the sticky texture, but it is not easy to digest. Therefore, people with weak spleen and stomach, especially those with ulcer disease, must not be greedy for sticky food. For people with indigestion, beans such as soybeans and black beans should be less in Laba porridge, because beans contain flatulence factors, and if you eat too much, it will cause gastrointestinal discomfort.
2. It is not advisable to add alkali when cooking laba porridge
There is a custom of adding alkali to cooking porridge in the mainland, which can make the porridge more viscous and easy to rot. However, this practice can easily lead to the loss of nutrients such as B vitamins. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not add alkali when boiling Laba porridge, and use the "multigrain porridge" function of the rice cooker and electric pressure cooker to easily cook delicious Laba porridge.
3. Sugar friends should drink porridge scientifically
Diabetic patients should eat sugary laba porridge in moderation, try to choose non-sugared laba porridge, do not add longan meat, raisins, dates and other ingredients, should use oats, barley to increase viscosity, and at the same time can appropriately put more miscellaneous bean ingredients to help control the rate of blood sugar rise. In addition, it is important to note that porridge is liquid food and does not need to be chewed, which leads to a very fast consumption of porridge. However, the longer you drink porridge, the slower the rate at which your blood sugar rises. It is absolutely not advisable to drink it all at once, swallow it slowly in small sips, drink it with the food, and try to prolong the time of drinking a bowl of porridge.
4. People who are losing weight should choose ingredients carefully
For people who are losing weight, it is necessary to add less easy-to-digest ingredients such as white rice. It is best not to add sugar, and add more starchy beans such as kidney beans and red beans with relatively thick seed coats, so that the texture of the porridge is soft but not rotten, and has a good taste and satiety. And also to control the time of boiling porridge, the longer the porridge is boiled, the softer and glutinous the laba porridge is, and the faster it is digested. Therefore, as a weight loss person, the cooking time of porridge should not be too long, and Laba porridge has the best chewing taste, so that you can have a higher sense of satiety.
Source: Shanxi Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine