ClarkeThe traditional food for Lidong is dumplings. Because our country is based on agriculture, we attach great importance to the twenty-four solar terms, and new growth points for plants and trees. Autumn harvest and winter storage, this day in order to improve life, I chose delicious dumplings. Therefore, there is a saying in the book of rites that eating melons is also a sacrifice to the first. Secondly, ancient China also had the custom of the winter solstice.
What should we pay attention to in Lidong diet:
Eat more staple foods and eat mutton, quail and sea cucumber appropriately. Proteins, fats and carbohydrates are called thermogenic nutrients. Therefore, in winter, we should appropriately increase the intake of staple food and oil to ensure the supply of high-quality protein.
Dog meat, mutton, beef, chicken, venison, shrimp, pigeon, quail, sea cucumber and other foods are rich in protein and fat and produce more calories. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that they are beneficial to kidney yang, warm in the middle, replenish qi and generate blood, and have the best effect against the cold.
Secondly, the fear of cold is related to the lack of calcium and iron. People's fear of cold is related to less intake of some minerals. For example, the content of calcium in human body can directly affect the elasticity and excitability of myocardium, blood vessels and muscles; Iron deficiency in blood is an important cause of iron deficiency anemia, which is often characterized by low heat production and low body temperature. Therefore, supplementing foods rich in calcium and iron can improve the cold resistance of the body.
