In early summer, you should stick to 7 "more" things to maintain your health

In early summer, the temperature is high and energy consumption is high. If you want to be healthy, you must pay attention to health care. How to keep healthy in early summer? If you have no appetite, drink more porridge; if the weather is dry, drink more water; for beauty and sun protection, eat more red and yellow fruits and vegetables... In early summer, you should adhere to 7 "mores" to have a cool summer!

How to keep healthy in early summer?

Summer health care is closely related to health. Therefore, starting from early summer, we should arrange our work and rest time reasonably, replenish nutrients in time, and adopt correct health care methods in order to spend the summer better.

1. If you have a poor appetite, drink more porridge

Summer heat will weaken appetite and gastrointestinal digestion function. When you have a poor appetite and don’t want to eat, porridge is a good choice. Porridge is easy to digest. It can not only replenish water, but also quickly replenish blood sugar and energy. It is the best staple food for cooling off. When making porridge, adding beans, grains, fruits and vegetables can enhance the health benefits of the porridge.

Porridge is warm, soft, light, fragrant and sticky. It is easy to digest and absorb, protects the gastric mucosa and increases body fluid. In particular, the sticky substance floating on the porridge after it is cooked, called "rice oil" in traditional Chinese medicine, has a strong nourishing effect and can even be compared with ginseng soup.

For the elderly, drinking porridge regularly can also help prolong life. Drinking porridge on an empty stomach in the morning can nourish the stomach and replenish physical strength; drinking porridge at night can help sleep and will not cause obesity.

Ice porridge is not advisable. Ice porridge is a hot-selling food in summer, but it is not suitable for the elderly and children with cold and weak constitutions. Drinking too much ice porridge will not only clog the body's sweat pores, making it difficult to excrete metabolic waste, but may also affect gastrointestinal function.

2. Drink more water in dry weather

According to nutrition experts, the weather in early summer is relatively dry, and the human body's daily water intake should reach 2000-2400 ml. Since the blood concentration in the human body is very high in the morning and blood clots are easily formed, the first thing you should do after getting up in the morning is to drink a glass of water.

It is also very important to replenish and maintain water throughout the day. Keeping enough water in the body can cleanse the intestines and prevent getting angry. It is not advisable to replace water with beverages. Soda, juice, cola and other beverages contain more saccharin and electrolytes. These substances can have adverse stimulation to the stomach and affect digestion and appetite.

3. Eat more red and yellow fruits and vegetables for whitening and sun protection

In addition to applying sunscreen, many foods also contain "sunscreen" ingredients, so you might as well eat more of them in the summer. The first thing I recommend is red and yellow fruits and vegetables. Its color comes from lycopene, carotenoids and anthocyanins. Tomatoes, carrots, papayas, sweet potatoes, citrus fruits, etc. are all representatives. These fruits and vegetables are also rich in vitamin C. This is the "eternal skin beauty product" with strong antioxidant ability that can enhance skin resistance.

Eating more red and yellow fruits and vegetables and dark green leafy vegetables can also reduce and repair tissue damage after sun exposure. Appropriate supplementation of antioxidants, such as 1 gram of vitamin C, 400 international units of vitamin E and 15 mg of beta-carotene per day, can also effectively repair sunburn.

In addition, yellow and red fruits and vegetables also have the effects of delaying aging, preventing and fighting cancer. Take tomatoes, for example. Research at the University of Manchester showed that skin exposed to the sun and damaged by UV rays can cause premature aging. Tomatoes are rich in lycopene, which can effectively fight free radicals.

4. Eat more cool vegetables to detoxify

When the summer heat and dampness invade the human body, it often causes the sweat pores to open, excessive sweating, qi deficiency, spleen and stomach dysfunction, food indigestion and other symptoms. In modern life, the consumption of meat and animal products has increased, which has made the body acidic and caused more internal heat.

Therefore, eating some cool vegetables properly can help to produce body fluids and quench thirst, relieve restlessness and summer heat, clear away heat and purge fire, and detoxify and promote bowel movements. Among the vegetables available in summer, such as bitter gourd, loofah, cucumber, melon, watermelon, melon, tomato, eggplant, celery, lettuce, asparagus, etc., are cool vegetables.

5. Drink more hot tea to quench your thirst

Many young people like to drink cold drinks when it is hot, but in fact, hot tea is more thirst-quenching, especially some famous and mellow teas. Folks in ancient China have long known how to cool down with hot tea to dissipate internal body heat.

Usually after drinking hot tea, the skin will slowly start to sweat, and sweat can help dissipate heat from the body; in other words, the heat is then slowly discharged; but when drinking cold drinks, the heat is more difficult to evaporate in a short period of time and remains trapped in the body, but the mouth and esophagus will feel cold for a short time, and will soon feel hot again.

The more impatient a person is in wanting to quench his thirst with ice water, the more he will feel his "heart fire is strong". But a pot of fragrant tea can relieve tension, make people temporarily relax and unwind, and help to cool off. However, the tea should not be too hot, otherwise it will damage the tongue, mouth, throat and esophagus, and will not be good for the stomach and intestines. Therefore, it is best to wait until the temperature drops below 80 degrees Celsius before drinking it slowly.

6. Drink more soup to cool down

If you want to cool down, the best way is to drink soup. Drinking soup helps you sweat, which can relieve heat and reduce body temperature, and is also good for your health. Especially suitable for the elderly and children.

People are advised to drink more vegetarian soups in summer because all kinds of fresh vegetables are on the market. In addition, fresh vegetables contain a large amount of alkaline components and are dissolved in the soup. Drinking it regularly can make the blood in the body in a normal weak alkaline state, prevent blood acidification, and redissolve pollutants or toxic substances deposited in the cells and excrete them out of the body with urine. In addition, you can also drink tomato potato soup, mung bean soup, etc. regularly, which have the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.

7. Nourish your spleen and stomach and exercise more

"The spleen governs transportation and transformation and is the foundation of acquired constitution." And the force that drives this transformation process. The best way is to exercise! Only when you move can you have yang energy, and only when you move can the spleen yang better play its role of transportation and transformation.

When exercising, you should pay attention to weather changes, add or remove clothes in time, avoid sweating too much, and pay attention to replenishing water to avoid excessive water loss in the body and consumption of energy; the way of exercise should be determined according to personal physique and preferences, such as brisk walking or jogging, half an hour to an hour each time. It is best to stick to it every day. If you don’t have time on weekdays, you should also take time to go out for a walk on weekends.