Eating is the fundamental behavior for the human body to absorb nutrients. In the cold winter, many foods cannot satisfy people's tastes due to seasonal reasons. Therefore, as spring arrives, many people begin to nourish themselves. However, eating has its principles; only correct spring dietary health measures can achieve the effect of supplementing the body's needed nutrients.
Regarding spring dietary health, experts recommend that the nutrition for three meals a day should be balanced and appropriate, meaning one should not be a picky eater nor eat too much. Only in this way can the body's demand for nutrients be met, and health can be guaranteed. Irregular diets can damage the spleen and stomach. If the spleen and stomach are damaged, food cannot be digested, and thus the body cannot be effectively supplied with nutrients.
People in a sub-healthy state often experience symptoms like abdominal bloating and discomfort, or loss of appetite. They may also suffer from deficiency in both the heart and liver, leading to vexation, insomnia, and excessive worry. Through reasonable dietary health, with regular meals and appropriate temperature regulation, the spleen and stomach can be nourished to ensure the body's normal supply and health.
For dietary health, one should choose foods that are sweet, pungent, and warm, light and palatable, and avoid greasy, raw, cold, sticky, and hard foods. As the human body's metabolism speeds up in spring and nutrient consumption increases accordingly, one should choose more foods that are both invigorating and nutritious, such as soybean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, tofu, fermented soybeans, barley, wheat, jujubes, lean meat, fish, eggs, peanuts, black sesame, citrus, green onions, ginger, garlic, cilantro, and honey.
Because fresh vegetables are scarce in winter, leading to insufficient vitamin intake, and the accumulated internal heat from the winter needs to be dispelled, one should also eat more fresh vegetables, such as spring bamboo shoots, spring leeks, rapeseed, spinach, celery, shepherd's purse, Malan vegetables, wolfberry sprouts, and toon sprouts. For those who have an excess of internal heat from overindulging in rich and heavy foods during winter, these vegetables can also help to clear heat, purge fire, cool the blood and brighten the eyes, reduce swelling and promote urination, and stimulate the appetite.
For those with a constitution prone to allergies, such as pollen allergies, urticaria, or skin diseases, they should avoid foods containing foreign proteins and other irritants, such as lamb, dog meat, pig's head, chicken's head, seafood, fish, shrimp, and crab.