Healthy Eating Tips for Summer

Introduction: High temperatures and humidity in the summer often lead to fatigue, chest tightness, and loss of appetite. How can you adjust your body's condition? Let's learn some tips for summer health and become a health expert.

1. Best Vegetable - Bitter Vegetables

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, the discomfort people feel in summer is due to the heat and dampness of the season. Bitter foods can replenish Qi, strengthen the kidneys, invigorate the spleen, and dry dampness. Modern scientific research also proves that bitter vegetables are rich in substances like alkaloids and vitamins that have the functions of relieving summer heat, reducing fever, eliminating vexation, refreshing the mind, and promoting digestion. Bitter melon, bitter herbs, lettuce, celery, dandelion, lotus seeds, and lilies are all excellent choices.

Bitter Melon and Bell Peppers

 

2. Best Meat - Duck

Don't think that only light foods are suitable for summer. You can also nourish your body in the summer; the key is to choose the right supplements. Here we recommend duck. Duck is not only rich in nutrients like protein that the body urgently needs in summer, but it can also prevent and treat diseases. Its magic lies in the fact that ducks are aquatic fowl with a cool nature. From the perspective of the TCM principle of "treating heat with cold," it is especially suitable for people with internal heat and "heatiness."

Five-Spice Duck Wings

 

3. Best Drink - Hot Tea

Drinks are indispensable in the summer, but the best choice is not cold drinks, beer, or coffee, but very common hot tea. Tea is rich in potassium, which quenches thirst and relieves fatigue, making it a top drink for beating the summer heat.

Luo Han Guo and Osmanthus Tea

 

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