Depending on the nutrient content in the food, the winter diet should have the following features:

 

1. Eat staple food, appropriate eat mutton, quail and sea cucumbers.

 

Protein, fat and carbohydrate nutrients known as thermogenesis. So, winter we will appropriately increase the intake of staple food and grease, ensure the availability of high quality protein. Dog meat, mutton, beef, chicken, venison, food such as shrimp, pigeon, quail, sea cucumber is rich in protein and fat, produce more heat, warm effect is best.

 

2. Afraid of the cold is associated with a lack of calcium and iron.

 

People afraid of the cold and less about the body's intake of certain minerals. Such as how much content of calcium in the body, can have a direct impact on the scalability and cardiac muscle, blood vessels, and muscle excitability; Lack of iron in the blood is the important cause of iron deficiency anemia, used to produce less heat, low temperature performance. Therefore, supplementary foods rich in calcium and iron can improve the body's ability to keep out the cold. Food containing calcium include milk, bean products, kelp, laver, shell, oyster, sardines, shrimp, etc.; Food containing iron mainly for animal blood, egg yolk, pork liver, soybean, sesame, black fungus, red dates, etc.

 

3. The kelp, seaweed, can promote the secretion of thyroxine, generate heat.

 

The thyroid gland secretion of human body have a called thyroxine, it can accelerate the oxidation in many tissues and cells of the body, increasing the body's heat-generating ability, basal metabolic rate, enhance the skin blood circulation to speed up, resistance to cold warm, and food containing iodine can promote the secretion of thyroxine. Food containing rich iodine is: kelp, laver, black moss, jellyfish, spinach, cabbage, corn, etc.

 

4. Can remove cold spicy food.

 

Chili peppers contain capsaicin, ginger containing aromatic essential oil, pepper contains piperine. They belong to spicy food, eat more in winter, not only can increase appetite, also can promote the blood circulation, improve the cold-resistance.

 

5. Sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, can provide the elements necessary for human body hardy.

 

Cold weather makes the body a great demand for methionine. Methionine by transfer function, provides a series of methyl necessary to adapt to the cold. Winter, therefore, should eat more food containing methionine. Such as sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, dairy, yeast, leafy vegetables, etc.

 

6. The animal liver, carrots can increase cold resistance ability.

 

Cold weather makes the body vitamin metabolism changes significantly. Increase the intake of vitamin A and vitamin C, can enhance the adaptability of the cold resistant ability and to cold, and has good protective effect on blood vessels. Vitamin A mainly from animal liver, carrots, green vegetables, vitamin C is mainly from fresh fruits and vegetables.

 

To a radish! "The beginning of winter turnip soup, no pain doctor prescribe"

 

After the proverb "the beginning of winter turnip soup, no pain doctor prescribe". Speaking of radish keeping in good health, a lot of people are not unfamiliar, but carrot, radish, white radish and radishes what choice, what diet points?

 

Carrot contains a variety of carotenoids, vitamins and trace elements, etc., so called "civilian ginseng". In dry season, eat some carrots, and moist skin effect.

 

Beta - carotene only dissolve in oils and fats, can change into vitamin A, is absorbed by the body, so the carrot appropriate oil to fry, or carrots cut into pieces, add spices, and meat stew.

 

Cooking mama will learn one: "French carrot soup"

 

50 g first prepared 50 g carrot, celery, potatoes (yellow skin), 50 grams, purple Perilla leaf 10 grams. Salt, pepper, monosodium glutamate, green Chinese onion, lemon, cream right amount. The carrots, potatoes, to peel wash oil cooked diced backup; Choose clean cut celery; At the end of the purple Perilla leaf shred; The pot add water to boil and blanch in vegetables cooked, remove water control; Vegetables with blender crush, back into the broth, bring to a boil, add salt, pepper, lemon juice, sprinkled with Perilla, and at the end of the add a moderate amount of sour cream and stir well.

 

Cooking mama will learn 2: sugar drink green radish heat treat lung cough

 

Late early winter, many citizens feel lung discomfort, especially one in the morning get up, always feel dry throat, plus the fog haze days, every day in your lungs going through these dust take turns to attack, a bit not careful will cause disease.

 

TCM holds that lung is "jiao dirty", it is invaded by first attack viscera, need special care after the beginning of winter. The green radish has certain runfei cough efficacy.

 

In addition, white radish is rich in large amounts of vitamins and minerals, phosphorus, iron, etc. Bai luobo raw digestion, cooked to eat to fill gas. Raw when its spicy ingredients can promote the secretion of gastric juice, adjust gastrointestinal function, and anti-inflammatory effects. It is important to note that the turnip belongs to cold vegetables, constitution slants cold, unfavorable eat taste xu han people.

 

For patients with mild lung hot cough might as well eat some "rock sugar carrot drinks".

 

"Rock sugar carrot drinks" particular way is: wash and dry the water, the green radish in upper 1/3 of radish cross-cutting knife, upper 1/3 aside, with a knife the hollowed, lower center in hollowed place add rock sugar. Covered well cut to a third of the bai luobo, again with a toothpick around good, put the carrots into the seal pot, put into the refrigerator, take out five or six days later, open the turnip, the candy has been turned into concentrated juice inside. Juice will decant out, add a little honey, drink can make rock candy radish.

 

Cooking mama will learn three: jellyfish turnip greens spleen dry mouth

 

After the beginning of winter, the air became dry, especially in the indoor work workers always feel dry mouth lip is dry. Although with the lip balm, but moisturizing effect is also very limited. More bother many residents, winter sports eat much less, and many of them are high quantity of heat, high fat food, isn't there any way to both the spleen and prevent dry mouth?

 

Turnip greens have phlegm of spleen, prevention and cure effect such as thirst, dry mouth, tongue, have the laudatory title of "turnip" fruit. Green turnip in the pure fiber can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, help the body of waste discharge. Often eating radish s can reduce blood lipids, soften blood vessels, stable blood pressure, prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD), atherosclerosis and other diseases.

 

Cooking mama will learn four: jellyfish silk mixing shredded turnip

 

To prepare mixed with 500 grams, green radish 200 grams, salt, green Onions, pepper, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate. Green radish peel them first with jellyfish washed separately, cut into filaments; Jelly fish with cold water immersion, green radishes pickled in salt and mix well for a while, drain water into the bowl together, stir in salt and monosodium glutamate; Onion cut into chopped green onion; Fire pot, add sesame oil heat up to seventy percent; After add peppercorns fry fragrant, fishing to Chinese prickly ash; Away from the fire, add chopped green onion a little Fried; Add in jellyfish silk and within the basin of shredded turnip, mix into a plate.

 

Cooking mama will learn five: carrot pork liver soup food therapy

 

Since the beginning of winter, everyone to dinner without drink wine to warm up and adjust the mood, but a lot of people will complain, don't drink no atmosphere, drunk and masochistic, suffer the most is the stomach and liver, how to do?

 

Radishes diuresis function especially good for hangovers. Water radish contains a variety of vitamins and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, have food, gas, marked effect and so on.

 

Cooking mama will learn six: radishes liver vermicelli soup washed soup is good.

 

Prepare for radishes, cooked pork liver, fans right amount, and then put the water radish slices with the skin, liver biopsy, the pot heat oil, saute the onion ginger, add pork liver, charging wine, stir fry a few times, the fire water radish slices, continue to stir fry half a minute. Pour half of the bone soup, half water, not all of the ingredients. After the big fire to boil, turn the fire three minutes or so, to join the fans, continue to burn for three minutes, plus the old vinegar, chicken powder, sesame oil, parsley, slightly gently out of the pot.