The weather is cold, and some people like to drink some wine to warm themselves up in order to keep out the cold. Is this true? Some people like to eat something delicious to make up for it. Is this right? Some people even stay at home when they don’t need it. Is this good for their health? Here are some common sense about winter for you to know.
Don’t step on the four misunderstandings of winter health preservation
Licking lips can moisturize? It will get drier and drier.
When the air is dry in cold, people’s lips are prone to chapping, causing discomfort, pain and bleeding. Many people like to lick their lips with their tongues, thinking that they can be moist and comfortable, but the result is just the opposite. Because saliva is secreted by salivary glands, it contains amylase and other substances, which are relatively thick, and it is like rubbing a layer of paste on your lips. When the water evaporates, the lips will be drier and more prone to peeling. If the lips are dry and uncomfortable, you can apply some lip balm without pigment and fragrance.
The more clothes you wear, the warmer you get? The view is too one-sided
In winter, some people are full of clothes, thinking that the more they wear, the warmer they will be. This view is one-sided, because the warmth of clothes is related to the thickness of air layer in clothes. When clothes are put on, the thickness of air layer increases, and the warmth retention also increases. However, when the total thickness of the air layer exceeds 15 mm, the air convection in the clothes increases obviously, but the warmth retention decreases. Physiologically speaking, if people wear too much clothes, their skin blood vessels will expand due to high heat, which will increase heat dissipation and reduce the adaptability of the body to external temperature changes.
Drinking white wine can keep out the cold? It may be colder.
Many people think that drinking white wine in winter can help people resist the cold. The reality is that people’s feeling of being warm after drinking is short-lived. The heat in the human body is produced by the chemical reaction of protein, fat, carbohydrate and other substances in the body during muscle exercise. The main components of wine are water and alcohol, which do not produce much heat. On the contrary, stimulated by alcohol, blood vessels can’t contract in time to prevent blood from transferring heat to the outside, and people will feel colder after a lot of body heat is lost.
Sleeping with your head covered is the most comfortable? It’s comfortable to make a micro-airflow in the bed
On a cold night, many people like to sleep with quilts. This is neither hygienic nor comfortable. When you sleep with your head covered, in addition to the difficulty in breathing and dizziness caused by lack of oxygen, a large amount of water vapor exhaled from your mouth also increases the humidity in the bed sharply, and the good microclimate in the bed is quickly destroyed, making your whole body uncomfortable.
Medical meteorologists have found that the most comfortable bed microclimate requires a micro-airflow of 0.2 meters per second. Such a small wind speed has almost no blowing feeling on the human body, so it is difficult to adjust it. Generally speaking, as long as the quilt is not wrapped in a "cylindrical shape" when sleeping, there is a certain space between the quilt and the body, and 1 ~ 2 small gaps are left between the cushion quilt and the cover quilt below the shoulders, the standard of "micro-airflow" that makes the human body comfortable can basically be achieved.
Health in winter, tonic should nourish the lungs, moisten the dryness and balance the nutrition.
In winter, many people will choose to eat a lot of warm tonic food to resist the cold winter. Experts remind not to blindly supplement foods that are easy to get angry, such as hot pot, beef and mutton, because the temperature drops. Therefore, the "winter tonic" should be based on the actual situation of different people to choose clear tonic, warm tonic, small tonic, big tonic, not blindly "tonic." There is a saying in Neijing that "nourishing yin in autumn and winter", so it is most important to nourish yin and tonify yang. It is best to eat more nourishing foods such as Chinese cabbage, tremella, glutinous rice, mutton, pears and kiwifruit, but with reasonable collocation and balanced nutrition.
Dietary Matching: No less than one grain pulp.
Grain and cereal: Drinking hot porridge in winter is a good choice for health. For example, sesame porridge can benefit essence and nourish yin, radish porridge can help digestion and eliminate phlegm, walnut porridge can nourish yin and solidify essence, Poria porridge can strengthen spleen and nourish stomach, and jujube porridge can benefit qi and nourish yin.
1. Jujube sesame porridge: Jujube sesame porridge is made of jujube and sesame. In winter, it can not only help pregnant women to supplement iron, but also help the elderly to digest and enrich women’s blood.
2. Laba porridge: In some places in the north, there is a habit of boiling Laba porridge in winter. Traditional Laba porridge uses yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut rice, chestnuts, red cowpeas, red dates, etc., which are rich in grains and nutrients, which helps to increase calories and nutrition.
3. Xiaomi Mairen porridge: It is cold in winter, and many friends with stomach problems will feel very uncomfortable. It is good to drink Xiaomi Mairen porridge. Millet can nourish the stomach, and wheat kernel is rich in plant protein, minerals and so on, which is of great benefit to tonic in winter.
Vegetables: While warming up in winter, we should also eat more vegetables to relieve boredom and dryness, so as to achieve the effect of nourishing yin.
1. Celery: Celery is not only rich in iron ions, but also has the effects of lowering blood pressure and clearing blood lipids. Chinese medicine believes that it is cool, sweet and nontoxic, and can promote appetite, and has the functions of eliminating phlegm and lowering blood pressure.
2. Radish: As the saying goes, "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer" and "eat radish in winter and compete with ginseng". In traditional winter health preservation, it is best to eat foods that conform to the season, and winter is a good time to eat radishes, which has good effects of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, stimulating appetite and strengthening spleen, and smoothing qi and resolving phlegm.
3. Cabbage: As the saying goes, "A hundred dishes are not as good as cabbage" and "Cabbage tofu keeps you safe". When the weather is dry in winter, eating more cabbage has the functions of nourishing yin, moistening dryness and caring skin. Chinese cabbage is warm and sweet, enters the spleen and stomach meridian, and has the functions of warming stomach, benefiting qi, expelling cold and preventing wind. It can improve epigastric cold pain, abdominal fear of cold, abdominal pain and poor defecation. Don’t throw it away just because the taste of cabbage is not as good as that of cabbage. In fact, it has high nutritional value, and stir-frying or stuffing is good.
4. Onion: Onion is pungent and warm, and has the functions of sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, warming the middle and dispelling cold. Mainly used for respiratory symptoms such as exogenous wind-cold, fever and chills, headache and nasal congestion, cough, cough with white phlegm, chest tightness and shortness of breath.
Fruits: From the nutritional point of view, fruits are rich in vitamins and minerals, and phytochemicals with antioxidant effects. These nutrients are beneficial to delaying aging, preventing cancer, clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing blood, resisting oxidation and maintaining health.
1. Pears: Chinese medicine believes that pears have the functions of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, clearing away heat and reducing fire, and are most suitable for patients with fever and internal heat in winter. However, it is too cold to eat pears directly in winter, so you can drink them with stewed sugar water such as longan, red dates and medlar.
2. Apple: As the saying goes, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away". Apple has the effects of nourishing spleen, nourishing stomach yin, moistening lung and pleasing heart, and is called the health protector of cardiovascular system. Moreover, stewed soup with lily, medlar and tremella can not only remove coldness, but also have nourishing effect.
3. Kiwifruit: Kiwifruit is known as the "king of vitamin C", and the content of vitamin C is extremely high. Among them, rich dietary fiber can promote heart health, help human digestion and microcirculation, thus improving immunity; At the same time, it also has the good effects of promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, relieving fever and removing annoyance.
4. grapes. Grapes can replenish qi and produce essence, and can nourish liver and kidney.
Meat: In winter, people are used to eating ginger duck, mutton stove, Chinese yam stewed ribs and other medicinal diets to "tonify winter", which can tonify the middle warmer, replenish qi, nourish yin and tonify yang. But eating too much meat will increase the burden on digestive and metabolic organs, so we should eat reasonably. Eat less fat, and choose some poultry, fish and mutton that are easy to digest and absorb and have less fat content.
1. Mutton: beginning of winter’s tonic is the first to promote mutton, which is warm and warm, and its fat and cholesterol are much less than pork and beef; Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mutton is hot and enters the spleen and kidney meridian, which has the effects of warming kidney, supporting yang, strengthening waist and strengthening bones, and nourishing essence and blood.
2. Pigeon meat: As the saying goes, "One pigeon wins nine chickens", it can be seen that the nutritional value of pigeon meat is very high. Drink two bowls of pigeon soup in the coldest time of the year to protect the liver and tonify the kidney, replenish qi and replenish blood to resist the cold in winter.
3. Fish: Fish is not only rich in nutrition but also extremely low in fat. Its protein content is twice that of pork, and it is easily absorbed by the human body. Therefore, in winter, besides eating some red meat, you can also stew more nourishing fish soup. In winter, the perch is plump, and it is rich in digestible protein, fat, vitamin B2, niacin, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, copper, iron and selenium. Chinese medicine believes that perch is warm and sweet, and has the functions of strengthening spleen and stomach, nourishing liver and kidney, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.
There is a "three-point" in winter health preservation.
First, drink more water. According to experts, since the winter, patients with dry throat, itchy skin and nosebleeds have increased significantly. Under normal circumstances, the human body will evaporate a lot of water every day. After heating, the room is dry and loses more water. Being in such an environment for a long time, the body is naturally prone to the above problems.
Experts suggest that although sweating and urination are reduced in winter, maintaining the normal operation of cells in the brain and various organs of the body still needs water nourishment. Therefore, you should pay attention to drinking more water in autumn and winter.
Second, sweat a little. Experts said that the cold weather in winter makes it easy for people to shrink back and reduce the amount of exercise, but moderate exercise in winter is still essential. Exercise your muscles properly and sweat a little, so as to strengthen your body.
"Exercise should be combined with movement, and yoga should be based on fever or slight sweating. You can also stick to soaking your feet with warm water until you sweat slightly, but you can’t sweat too much. On the one hand, sweating is discouraged, which is contrary to the way of hiding yang in winter. On the other hand, it is easy to catch a cold." Experts said.
Third, go to bed early. According to experts, Sun Simiao, a famous medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, said: "It is not appropriate to go out early in the morning and return late at night in winter, which offends Hanwei." Go to bed early to nourish yang, and get up late to consolidate yin essence. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure adequate sleep in winter health preservation, which is beneficial to the hidden yang and the accumulation of yin and body fluid; Remember to "raise Tibet" when you are recuperating in winter. (Source: China Women’s Daily, China Net, qianjiang evening news)
