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What food do you eat for health in summer?

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▼ Green beans

Mung bean is the top grade in summer diet, which is rich in nutrition, has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, beauty beauty, quenching thirst and diuresis, and has the reputation of "helping the world". You can cook mung bean soup or mung bean porridge in summer.

▼ Watermelon

There is a folk saying that "it's half a melon, and it's nothing if it's hot." When heatstroke, fever, upset, thirst or other acute fever occurs in summer, watermelon should be used as an auxiliary treatment.

▼ Bitter gourd

It is the best vegetable for relieving summer heat. It is nutritious, and has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, lowering blood sugar, caring skin and preventing cancer. It is best to eat bitter gourd in hot summer.

▼ Duck meat

Duck meat is cold, which is an excellent food for summer tonic. It has the effects of high nutrition, dehumidification, detoxification, nourishing stomach, tonifying kidney, reducing swelling, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and is very suitable for eating in summer.

▼ Green tea

It belongs to unfermented tea, which is cold in nature, "cold can clear away heat" and can remove fire best. It has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, resolving food stagnation, relieving fatigue and losing weight, clearing away heart fire and relieving hangover, reducing fire and improving eyesight, and is most suitable for drinking in summer.

Medicinal porridge can nourish the body.

Because of the hot climate in summer, it is easy to hurt body fluid and consume gas, so porridge can often be used to nourish the body. A correct diet can help the human body resist the invasion of damp heat, and eat more foods such as melon, coix seed, poria cocos, yam, etc. It is best to cook porridge or soup with these ingredients.

Effect of poultry meat on invigorating qi and blood

Make up three or nine in winter and three days in summer. Poultry meat is a low-fat and high-protein food, and its protein is also a high-quality protein. It has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, invigorating qi and blood, expelling pathogenic wind and removing toxic substances, invigorating qi and blood, and calming the nerves, and is especially suitable for mental workers and neurasthenia.

Eating ginger warms the stomach and stimulates appetite.

As the saying goes, "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer". Although it is hot in summer, the yang is in the exterior and the yin is in the stomach, but the internal organs are cold and easy to have diarrhea, so eat ginger that warms the stomach. Ginger has the effects of appetizing, expelling wind and cold, detoxification and sterilization. If you eat a few slices of ginger for dinner, it will increase your appetite; Ginger can also relieve or relieve stomach pain.