Old people are not bound by solar terms.

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China alongside Mid-Autumn Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day, and each festival has its own solar food. Tomb-Sweeping Day has a family reunion dinner, moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival and zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival. In fact, besides eating zongzi, there are also folk activities such as rowing dragon boats, hanging Ai Bao, drinking realgar and boiling duck eggs. Only with more and more young people working and living in big cities from their hometown, these traditional folk customs are gradually forgotten. Young people eat zongzi and like all kinds of novel flavors. In recent years, many so-called "network celebrity zongzi" have appeared, such as pickled fresh zongzi, octopus zongzi and durian zongzi. Older people tend to eat traditional red date zongzi, egg yolk zongzi and red bean paste zongzi. However, due to the prevalence of diabetes in the elderly and the decline of digestive function, although Zongzi is eaten once a year, you can't indulge yourself to eat too much. The nutritionist who exploded in the nutrition class today will talk to you: the elderly eat zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, pay attention to protecting the stomach, and remember these four sentences before eating. 1. Old people should remember this sentence before eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival: eat as little meat as possible. There are two kinds of zongzi: sweet zongzi with red dates and bean paste, and salty zongzi with salted egg yolk and pork. Northerners like sweet zongzi, while southerners like salty zongzi. However, for the elderly, try to eat less salty zongzi and more meat, especially in Guangdong, where there are often pieces of pure fat pork. Of course it's delicious, but the digestive function of the elderly is weak, and eating too greasy will cause gastrointestinal discomfort. 2. Before the old people eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival, remember this sentence: Don't eat red date zongzi. Zongzi itself is made of glutinous rice, which is sticky. If you don't chew slowly and swallow raw, it's easy to get stuck in your throat. In addition, the swallowing function of the elderly is weak, especially when eating jujube zongzi, be careful to swallow jujube stones directly. A sharp foreign body like jujube pit may get stuck in the muscle layer of the feeding passage once it is mistakenly entered into the esophagus. Every year around the Dragon Boat Festival, the otolaryngology department of the hospital will encounter patients with this situation. Before the old people eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival, remember this sentence: When eating zongzi with vegetables, you can eat it with vegetable soup and cold salad. Zongzi is delicious, but its nutrition is simple and difficult to digest. Combined with vegetable foods, reasonable intake of dietary fiber, minerals and vitamins will also help to slow down the rate of postprandial blood sugar increase. Before the old people eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival, remember this sentence: replace glutinous rice zongzi with yellow rice zongzi. If you make zongzi at home, you can change glutinous rice into yellow rice. The dietary fiber content of yellow rice is 4.2 times that of glutinous rice. It has a certain positive effect on relieving the speed of blood sugar increase and promoting gastrointestinal peristalsis. Dear friends, what flavor of zongzi do you like to eat? Please leave a message in the comments section below to share your Dragon Boat Festival story. Disclaimer: The above content comes from the Internet, and the copyright belongs to the original author. If there is any infringement of your original copyright, please let us know and we will delete the relevant content as soon as possible.