24 solar terms: What to eat during heavy snowfall

　　skin Dry, Chinese cabbage for skin care and beauty

　　The air is particularly dry during the snowy season, and the cold wind makes many readers' skin begin to dry out. After arriving at work, many office workers are locked in air-conditioned rooms with heating on, and the moisture in their skin is correspondingly lost faster. Many readers know that Chinese cabbage is a very nutritious supplement. Nanjing Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital Dermatologist Du Changming, the attending Chinese medicine practitioner, reminds you that eating Chinese cabbage in winter also has the effect of skin care and beauty. This is mainly because Chinese cabbage is rich in vitamin C and vitamin E, which can have good skin care and beauty effects. Chinese cabbage is rich in crude fiber, which not only moistens the intestines and promotes detoxification, but also stimulates gastrointestinal motility, promotes stool excretion, and aids digestion.

　　Experts particularly remind all friends that Chinese cabbage should be cut vertically, because cutting it in this way is better for preserving water, reducing the loss of water in the vegetable, and the loss of water-soluble nutrients will also be reduced. Secondly, cabbage cooked in this way is easier to cook and the loss of vitamins is reduced. Thirdly, shredding Chinese cabbage can retain more crude fiber, which is more conducive to stimulating intestinal peristalsis and increasing the effect of detoxification and skin care.

　　If the sun is too weak, use red radish leaves to supplement calcium

　　The arrival of the heavy snow solar term marks the official start of the alternation between autumn and winter. This is a time when the sunlight is weak and the human body is affected by cold temperatures, causing changes in physiological functions and appetite. Therefore, you should adjust your daily diet appropriately to ensure your body has sufficient calcium sources so that you can live a warm winter.

　　Experts said that calcium is the main component of bones and is known as the life metal of the human body. The shortened sunshine time in winter will affect the formation of vitamin D. In cold weather, the human body's urine output increases, and the amount of inorganic salts excreted in the urine also increases. The human body is often prone to lack of potassium, calcium, sodium, iron and other elements, especially elderly . Therefore, calcium should be supplemented in time.

　　Many people think that it is natural to peel off the radish leaves from the large carrots they buy, but experts remind readers that radish leaves are the vegetables with the highest calcium content and are very suitable for people who are calcium deficient. Take soybeans, which are said to be very good at supplementing calcium, as an example. The calcium content of soybeans per 100 grams is about 191 mg, but the calcium content of carrot leaves per 100 grams is 350 mg, which is almost twice the calcium content of soybeans. In the food nutrition element table, red radish tincture contains 350 mg of calcium per 100 grams, ranking first in the calcium content of all vegetables. Small radish tincture contains 238 mg of calcium, and green radish tincture contains 110 mg of calcium, which is also at the top of the calcium content list.

　　Experts remind that radish leaves, like many vegetables, are prone to loss of vitamins, so it is best to blanch them and eat them cold. A serving of cold radish leaves can fully meet the body's daily needs of vitamins A and K, as well as 55% of vitamin C, 27% of folic acid, and 10% of calcium and manganese.

　　The yang energy is stored, and a green onion can "open up the yang"”

　　Traditional Chinese medicine believes that before and after the heavy snow solar term, the weather is cold and the yang energy is hidden. If you don't pay attention to keeping warm, you will easily get sick if the cold evil invades. Therefore, we should pay attention to the maintenance of Yang Qi in winter.

　　Relevant experts said that before and after the heavy snow solar term, there is wind and cold. cold In the high-incidence stage of the cold, the main symptom of wind-chill cold is fear of cold and wind. Usually, you have to wear a lot of clothes or cover yourself with a big quilt to feel comfortable. A runny nose is clear, white or slightly yellowish. If the nose is blocked and the runny nose does not stop, drink some hot water and the runny nose starts to clear. This is also a cold. Although the cause of wind-cold colds is infection with wind-cold evils, the internal cause is the decline in human body resistance, which is what traditional Chinese medicine often calls insufficient righteousness. The yang energy is suppressed and it is difficult to resist the yin-cold evils. Therefore, when the weather is cold, eating some foods that can replenish qi and promote yang will help prevent colds and colds.

　　Experts said that although the green part of scallions has much higher nutritional content than the white part of scallions, from the perspective of stimulating yang and dietary therapy, scallion white is more effective. For example, many classic dietary remedies for colds and colds use scallion white as medicine, such as the main component of scallion black soybean soup. Green onions are pungent in taste and slightly warm in nature, and have the functions of tonifying yang, detoxifying and seasoning. In addition to being used to prevent and treat colds and colds, it is also suitable for yin-cold stomach ache , aversion to cold, fever, headache, nasal congestion, lactation obstruction and other symptoms also have a certain therapeutic effect. We need to remind everyone that the general population can eat green onions, but those with gastrointestinal tract disease , especially people with ulcers should not eat too much.