The Chinese New Year is a traditional Chinese holiday, and when friends and family get together, it is inevitable that a feast will be served. So, how to eat properly during the festive season to benefit health? The diet should be careful, with the need for balanced Spring Festival people always like to make a table of dishes to add festive celebrations, treat the year’s hard work, pray for the next year’s food and clothing abundance. However, while tasting the delicious food to satiate your appetite, you must pay attention to a balanced diet to ensure nutritional health. Do not indulge yourself, “open belly” to eat fish and meat, and do not eat rice, noodles, beans, potatoes and other food. You know, if the intake of grains, starchy food is not enough, and eat too much meat, it will increase the intake of cholesterol and calories, which can easily cause obesity and complications. Do not treat snacks such as rice cakes, fried horns, doughnuts, etc. as staple foods, which are high in fat, calories, etc. Eating more is not beneficial to health and can lead to weight gain. Do not eat only vegetables or fruits alone either, because fruits and vegetables mainly provide minerals, vitamins, dietary fiber, etc., and their sugar content is not high enough to meet the caloric needs of the day. A balanced diet emphasizes the need for a variety of nutritional elements, with a reasonable ratio of 1:1:1 of plant and animal proteins, vegetables and mushrooms and algae, which ensures a diversity of foods and also meets the needs of taste. Also need to eat more food to help digestion, such as radish, umeboshi, papaya, etc. are helpful to promote digestion, prevent accumulation of food, decomposition of fats and oils as well as promote intestinal peristalsis to relieve constipation. More supplemental fruits and vegetables Fresh vegetables are alkaline food, rich in fiber, can also neutralize excess acid in the body, maintain the body’s metabolic needs, and can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, so that some toxic substances produced by the metabolism of animal protein in the body as soon as possible to discharge. Help you eliminate the excessive meat intake of the holiday season brought about by the symptoms of bloating and abdominal fullness, because the fiber in vegetables can solve greasy, maintain normal gastrointestinal peristalsis, prevent constipation. Also pay attention to the consumption of fruit Oh, the benefits of fruit, the regulation of the gastrointestinal benefits, such as in the fire, constipation may wish to eat more bananas, because the banana has a good heat, detoxification, laxative effect. So when is it good to eat fruit? Is it true that eating fruit after a full meal helps digestion? Many families, even many parties are used to serving fruit after the meal, which is actually a wrong eating habit. Because if you eat fruit on top of a full meal, almost all of these calories will be stored, leading to overweight or obesity problems, and eating fruit right after a meal will also affect digestion. In fact, the best way to eat is before meals. The absorption rate of nutrients is much higher when you eat fruits before meals than after meals. Eating fruit first can also shorten its residence time in the stomach, reduce its oxidation and corruption, and reduce the possible adverse effects on the body. Therefore, eating fruit before meals is beneficial to the absorption of essential nutrients. Sugar, wine and fruit are not greedy during the Spring Festival, the family are prepared with candy, melon seeds, peanuts and other small snacks. When people chat, they can not help but eat more of these small snacks, not knowing that the sugar and spices in the melon candy is too much, after eating easy to make people dry mouth, emotional excitement, and even appear inexplicable anger. In addition, the Spring Festival table is also inevitable drink tour, a rare reunion of friends and relatives to pour a small drink to help cheer is not wrong, but excessive drinking is not good, but also harm the body! Excessive excitement when drinking is prone to induce disease and damage to the body. Many people do not know that alcohol can be absorbed directly from the gastric mucosa into the blood, drinking on an empty stomach is not only easy to get drunk, and the irritation of the esophagus and gastric mucosa is quite large, can cause mucosal detachment, bleeding occurs; a lot of alcohol will produce a feeling of fullness, so after drinking wine will not want to eat again. And excessive drinking is hurt spleen and liver, especially those suffering from acute and chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, fatty liver, more can not drink in excess.