How to eat in spring to prevent diseases

Spring is the season when all things begin to wake up. It is also a new beginning of the new year. Many bacteria and viruses also begin to wake up. Due to the pollution in recent years, the air also contains a lot of viruses and bacteria. In spring, the climate is still very changeable, sometimes cold and sometimes hot, so colds are the peak of outbreaks in spring. Spring is also the season with the most diseases in the year, so we must be very careful and eat food that is suitable for this season. Don't eat food that is not suitable for this season, especially those spicy things.

Sun Simiao, the King of Medicine in the Tang Dynasty, said: "In spring, it is better to reduce sour food and increase sweet food to nourish the spleen." It means eating less sour food and more sweet food to nourish the liver and spleen, which is very beneficial for disease prevention and health care.

The first choice of foods with warm nature and sweet taste are cereals such as glutinous rice, black rice, sorghum, millet, and oats; fruits and vegetables such as sword beans, pumpkin, lentils, red dates, longan, walnuts, and chestnuts; meat and fish such as beef, pork tripe, crucian carp, carp, sea bass, grass carp, and eel. The human body absorbs rich nutrients from these foods, which can complement each other in nourishing the liver and strengthening the spleen.

Secondly, we should follow the rising energy of spring and eat more foods that warm and nourish the yang energy, especially in early spring when there is still some chill from winter. You can choose to eat leeks, garlic, onions, konjac, kohlrabi, mustard greens, coriander, ginger, and onions. These vegetables are warm in nature and spicy in taste. They can not only dispel wind and cold, but also inhibit and kill bacteria that breed in humid environments.

In addition to protecting the liver in spring, you should also pay attention to supplementing the trace element selenium, and eat more animals and plants rich in selenium, such as sea fish, shrimp, beef, quail eggs, sesame, almonds, wolfberry, cowpea, day lily, etc., to enhance the body's immune function and benefit health care.

From this we can see that diet can also prevent many diseases, make us sick less often and take less medicine. Eating properly can stimulate the yang energy in the body to fight against viral invasion.