Due to the summer heat and excessive sweating, the body loses a lot of water, and the digestive function of the spleen and stomach is relatively poor. Therefore, consuming more liquid food is an important method of dietary preservation in the summer. For example, eating congee for breakfast and dinner, and drinking soup at lunch, can not only promote saliva production to quench thirst and cool down to relieve summer heat, but also nourish the body. When cooking congee, adding some lotus leaves makes it lotus leaf congee. It has a fragrant taste with a slight bitterness, which can stimulate the appetite and has the effects of resolving summer heat, nourishing the stomach, clearing the intestines, promoting saliva production, and quenching thirst. When cooking congee, adding some mung beans or simply boiling mung beans into soup has effects such as relieving summer heat and thirst, clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting saliva production, and inducing urination.
Nutritional consumption is greater in the summer, and the hot weather also affects people's appetite. In addition to paying attention to dietary hygiene and a light diet, it is also necessary to supplement some nutrients.
(1) Supplement sufficient vitamins, such as eating more fresh fruits and vegetables like tomatoes, green peppers, winter melon, watermelon, bayberry, muskmelon, peaches, and plums;
(2) Supplement water and inorganic salts, especially pay attention to supplementing potassium. Legumes or bean products, mushrooms, fruits, and vegetables are all good sources of potassium. Eat more foods that clear heat and promote dampness excretion, such as watermelon, bitter gourd, peaches, dark plum, strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, and mung beans, all of which have good effects of relieving summer heat;
(3) Supplement protein in moderation. Fish, lean meat, eggs, milk, and legumes are all the best sources of high-quality protein.
Don't eat food taken from the refrigerator right away
In the summer, people love to eat fruits, drinks, and other items just taken from the refrigerator. Some people, especially children with weaker gastrointestinal functions, are most likely to experience severe abdominal pain about half an hour after eating. In severe cases, symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, dizziness, diarrhea, and chills may occur. After a hospital examination, doctors mostly conclude with acute intestinal colic. This kind of colicky pain is caused by eating food stored in the refrigerator. The temperature of the human gastrointestinal tract is generally around 36°C, while food taken directly from the refrigerator is only 2°C to 8°C. After being strongly stimulated by the low temperature, the blood vessels in the gastrointestinal tract suddenly constrict and narrow, blood flow decreases, and digestive secretions also stop, leading to a disorder of physiological function. A simple way to prevent this condition is to not eat food taken from the refrigerator immediately. Let it sit at room temperature for a while before eating, and do not eat too much at once. This is especially true for the elderly, children, and people with chronic gastritis or indigestion, who should eat less or not at all.