Eat "Three, Four, Five" Daily to Slow Down Aging
Health preservation is sometimes not about great wisdom, but about the small details of life. The most common foods, if eaten consistently, can have remarkable effects. Persisting in eating three walnuts, four longans, and five red dates daily is highly beneficial to your health.
Three walnuts to nourish the brain and moisten the lungs. Walnuts have high medicinal value. Children eat walnuts to nourish their brains; young and middle-aged people and office workers with high stress can eat some walnuts to relieve brain fatigue and reduce stress; the elderly can eat walnuts to fight aging.
Walnuts are rich in unsaturated fatty acids and have the effect of preventing and treating arteriosclerosis. In addition, walnuts also contain essential trace elements for the human body such as zinc, manganese, and chromium. Chromium promotes cholesterol metabolism and protects the cardiovascular system, so people with high blood lipids and obesity can eat some.
Four longans to whet the appetite and calm the mind. Longans, also known as longan, are a precious nourishing tonic. Longans are warm in nature and sweet in taste, beneficial to the heart and spleen, and have the effects of stimulating the appetite, nourishing blood and benefiting the spleen, and calming the mind. In traditional Chinese medicine, it can be used to treat insomnia, forgetfulness, palpitations, dizziness, and other symptoms caused by deficiency of the heart and spleen and insufficient qi and blood. People tend to feel drowsy in spring, and eating a few longans can help alleviate this.
Longans are rich in nutrients such as vitamin A and B vitamins, which are very beneficial for people who overwork their minds.
Five red dates to replenish qi and nourish blood. Jujubes rank first among the five major fruits, and their rich nutritional value has always been highly regarded. From a traditional Chinese medicine perspective, jujubes can strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, nourish blood and calm the mind. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that qi is function and blood is substance; jujubes can replenish both qi and blood, which is rare in Chinese medicine, so their medicinal value is very high. Fresh jujubes are particularly high in vitamin C, 8-17 times that of citrus and more than 50 times that of apples, so red dates are called "natural vitamin pills" by the nutrition community. Traditional Chinese medicine mainly uses dried red dates. Although the vitamin C content in dried dates is slightly lower than in fresh dates, because they contain many other nutrients, especially a relatively high iron content, they are very beneficial for women to replenish iron and blood.