As the saying goes, “Three nines make up a winter, no disease and pain in the coming year.” It means that winter supplementation of nutritious food is beneficial to resist diseases in the coming spring season, to which elderly friends should pay attention.
In winter, the climate is cold, the human body is affected by the cold climate, the physiological functions of the body and appetite will change. Seniors should adjust their diet and take appropriate supplements to ensure adequate supply of nutrients, which is the key to improve cold tolerance and immune function, and to overwinter safely and smoothly. So, how should the elderly take supplements in winter?
Winter seasonal vegetables are few in number and monotonous in variety, often making the elderly susceptible to vitamin deficiencies, such as mouth ulcers, swollen gums, bleeding and dry stools and constipation. Therefore, the elderly should eat more potatoes in winter to supplement vitamin C, carotene and crude fiber. Winter vegetables in addition to cabbage, but also should eat more cabbage, radish, bean sprouts, rape, cauliflower, etc., these vegetables are rich in vitamin content. In addition, in the main food more japonica rice, corn, wheat, soybeans, etc., in the fruit more hot fruit, such as apples, oranges, coconut, pineapple, lychee, cinnamon, etc., can also be supplemented with vitamins.
As the elderly have reduced digestion and absorption and metabolic functions in the body, they are prone to lack of potassium, calcium, sodium and other elements, plus more urine in winter, so that the amount of inorganic salts excreted with urine increases, so you should also eat more foods rich in inorganic salts, such as shrimp, shrimp skin, pig liver, sesame paste and bananas. Dog meat, beef and mutton are good winter tonic for the elderly, as well as hen, hoof tendons, milk and soy milk, all of which can increase heat. For example, beef with yellow wine, green onion and ginger stewed in a casserole, eating meat and drinking soup, or hot pot shabu-shabu lamb. Also chicken and fish are good for strengthening the muscles and bones.
As the elderly spleen and stomach digestive function is weakened, coupled with the elderly retired at home have time to make, so boil porridge and soup suitable for the elderly winter tonic, the following is a few suitable for the elderly winter dietary therapy remedies:.
1. Panax ginseng and shouwu porridge.
[Ingredients] Panax ginseng 5 grams, 30-60 grams of Radix et Rhizoma Polygoni, 100 grams of round-grained rice, 2 to 3 jujubes, and the right amount of rock sugar.
[Production] Firstly, put Panax ginseng and Radix et Rhizoma Polygonatum into a casserole to obtain thick juice, remove the dregs, and cook the juice with round-grained rice, jujube and rock sugar as porridge.
[Usage] For breakfast and dinner.
[Efficacy] Benefit the kidney and liver, nourish the blood, lower blood lipids and anti-aging. It is suitable for senile hyperlipidemia, vascular sclerosis, dry stools, and premature graying of hair, neurasthenia.
[Caution] Not to be taken by those with loose stools. Do not eat onion and garlic during the period of taking Shou Wu porridge
2, ginseng walnut drink.
[Ingredients]: Ginseng 3g, walnut meat 3.
[Production]: decoction offspring tea to drink
[Efficacy]: Nourish the heart and kidney, benefit the qi and replenish the yuan. Suitable for palpitation and shortness of breath, chest tightness and spontaneous sweating, lumbar soreness and foot weakness.
3.Yam noodles.
[Ingredients]: 150g of yam flour, 300g of flour, 1 egg, 20g of bean flour, and appropriate amount of seasoning.
[Ingredients]: Put yam, flour, bean flour, egg and water, salt in a bowl, knead into dough and make noodles. Put water in the pot, boil it on high heat and put noodles, lard, onion and ginger, cook it and then put MSG in the right amount to serve.
[Efficacy]: Strengthen the spleen and lung, strengthen the kidney and benefit the essence.
[Indications]: For the elderly with hyperlipidemia spleen deficiency.
[Note]: This dish is 1 day amount, divided into 3 times to take.
4.Shenzhen congee.
[Ingredients]: 90 grams of glutinous rice, 7 white onions with beard, 7 slices of ginger.
[Production]: a total of into the pot with the appropriate amount of water, simmering for 15 minutes on low heat, cooked into the rice vinegar 100 ml, go to the onion, ginger, drink while hot when the cold, covered with a slight sweat. If it is used for breakfast, it is not necessary to take sweat if it is used to fight against cold.
[efficacy]: Reconcile Ying and Wei, benefit Qi and relieve the surface, suitable for the old people’s body deficiency cold, especially the main medicine vinegar can effectively kill the flu virus.
5, mutton cistanche soup.
[Ingredients]: 200g of lamb, 12g each of Chinese herbs Cistanches and Cistanches, and the right amount of material package, ginger and salt.
[Production]: lamb washed, cut into pieces, into the pot with a few dozen mung beans (about 5g) or a few slices of radish with water, do not put seasoning, boil for 15 minutes, the mung beans or radish and water together with the pour off, the stink is removed; pot and then add water, Cistanches, and seasoning; simmer until the lamb is cooked, drink soup and eat meat.
[efficacy]: nourish the kidneys to help Yang, dispel the cold and waist, to benefit the essence of blood, spleen and lungs.
6, three fresh tofu soup.
[raw materials]: tofu, squid, sea cucumber, shrimp, cilantro, sea rice, fungus, chicken soup, ginger, onion, salt.
[Production]: Cut tofu into dice, cut squid into shreds, cut sea cucumber into pieces, add chicken broth and boil for 30 minutes, add ginger, green onion and salt to taste. Add ginger, green onion and salt to taste. Put cilantro before serving and serve.
[Efficacy]: Tofu is tender, seafood is delicious, and then stewed with chicken soup has a mellow taste and high nutritional value. For the lack of health, fatigue, impotence and weakness has a very obvious therapeutic dietary supplements.
7, Poria yam lean meat soup.
[raw materials]: lean meat 300 grams, yam, Poria each 25 grams, gravy, lotus seeds each 20 grams, white fungus, silver almonds in the right amount.
[Production]: the white fungus softened, remove impurities for use. Wash the yam, gravy, lotus seeds, silver almonds, lean meat, and white fungus in a pot, add water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 30 minutes.
[efficacy]: nourish the spleen and benefit the kidney, enhance immune function.
8, cardamom and peel carp soup.
[raw materials]: carp 1, cardamom 10 grams, Chen Pi 6 grams, ginger 4 slices, pepper 6 grams.
[Production]: Carp is cleaned, cardamom is grinded into the belly of the fish, cardamom, ginger is put in a pot with water, put the fish into the pot, boil it with martial fire, stew it with civil fire for 2 hours, season it and serve.
[efficacy]: for the elderly into the loss of appetite, poor digestion, gastric distension and pain has a significant improvement effect.
9, astragalus monkey head soup.
[raw materials]: 150 grams of monkey head, astragalus 30 grams, 250 grams of tender chicken.
[Production]: the monkey head washed, warm water hair 30 minutes after fishing out and cut into pieces, astragalus, chicken wash slices (pieces), lard heat, into the ginger, onions, chicken stir-fry, add wine, astragalus and broth, boil, simmer for 1 hour, then into the monkey head slices cooked for 30 minutes.
[efficacy]: This soup is beneficial for the elderly who are weak, often have colds, and often sweat when moving.
10, round meat red dates lamb soup
[Ingredients]: 750 grams of lamb leg meat, 30 grams of cinnamon meat, 15 grams of ginseng, 10 red dates, 4 slices of ginger.
[Production]: the lamb washed and cut into pieces, onion, ginger, garlic with oil, stir-fry the lamb, the cinnamon, ginseng, jujube, wash together into the pot, add water with a large fire after boiling, change to a civilian fire stew for 3 hours, eat meat and drink soup.
[Efficacy]: It is effective for the elderly with insufficient qi and blood, dizziness and dizziness, restless sleep at night, palpitations and panic. But if you have a cold and fever, this soup should be stopped, so as not to help heat on the fire.
11, sage and jade bamboo old duck soup.
[raw materials]: 1 old duck (about 500 grams), 60 grams of ginseng, 60 grams of bamboo, 3 slices of ginger;
[Production]: Wash the duck, cut it into pieces, put the ginseng, yu zhu and duck together in a pot with water, boil it on a high flame, change the flame to boil for 2 hours, eat the meat and drink the soup.
[Efficacy]: It has obvious effect on the elderly who are prone to dry constipation, dry cough and sore throat during the dry season of autumn and winter, and is a winter tonic that can be consumed frequently.