Elderly people should put red dates in their tea in winter

　　Experts suggest that the elderly should drink less tea in winter. If they must drink it, they can drink some black tea. Warm foods such as red dates and ginger can increase calories. Therefore, when drinking scented tea or green tea, it is best to put one or two red dates and one or two slices of ginger to offset their cold properties.

　　Whether it is jasmine, chrysanthemum and other flower teas, or green teas such as Longjing and Biluochun, they are all cold and cool. Some substances contained in them can take away some of the heat in the body during the volatilization process, causing the body temperature to drop. If you drink it for a long time in winter, it will worsen the already fragile gastrointestinal tract of the elderly, causing or aggravating various diseases due to cold. disease。

　　Although Pu'er and other black teas are warm in nature and can dispel cold and warm the stomach to a certain extent, and help the elderly digest, drinking too much black tea will also affect the balance of yin and yang in the body, causing some unnecessary troubles.

　　In addition, since the body temperature of the elderly is not as high as that of young people, they should eat more calorie-rich foods in their winter diet, such as mutton, chicken, vegetable porridge, jujube porridge, meat porridge, broth, shrimp-preserved egg soup, etc., to keep warm.