Chinese New Year is a time of joy and family reunion. From the first day of the year, there may be more people visiting relatives and gathering friends, but for such a reunion festival, how to have a healthy and happy Spring Festival?
1. Take your medication on time
(1) Misconceptions A year of eating to the end, stopping medication on their own.
(2 ) irregular work and rest, forget to take medication.
(3 ) Changes in the condition, adjust the medication.
During the Spring Festival, work and rest time is often irregular, it is difficult to take medication on time, but patients with diabetes and hypertension must pay attention to taking medication on time, and often measure blood sugar and blood pressure. Adjust your medication appropriately. If you have coronary heart disease, you can take some Chinese medicines such as Danshen and Chuan Dou, which have the ability to activate blood circulation and resolve stagnation.
2.Appropriate activities
Spring Festival, in addition to friends and dinners, visiting friends and relatives, only sitting at home is a very unhealthy practice Play entertainment, but also can not forget to exercise, more outdoor exercise,
(1) exercise: preparatory activities are indispensable
Winter climate is cold, muscle and blood vessel contraction is more serious than usual, so in order to avoid sports injuries, should do a good job of preparation before exercise, in addition to the choice of clothing to wear, but also according to the body condition to supplement some energy. You can choose to drink some hot milk, cereal, which can not only replenish water, relieve hunger, but also to warm up. In addition, before strenuous exercise, should do a good job of preparation activities, especially the elderly, should choose more moderate outdoor exercise, such as tai chi, jogging, cycling, etc..
(2) Exercise time: afternoon exercise is more appropriate
The general fitness enthusiasts have the habit of waking up early in the year to work out, and this is not so applicable in winter. Scientific research data shows that the best time to work out in the winter is between 14 and 19 hours. And the temperature is higher in the afternoon compared to the morning, and it is less likely to have a cold after exercise.
(3) Exercise time: don’t force the weather
Winter fitness should pay particular attention to the weather is not good when it comes to exercise. For example, when the foggy weather, not only the moisture in the air, more dust, and low air pressure, breathing difficulties, sweat is not easy to evaporate, it is best to do simple activities indoors. In addition, if the weather is too cold, you should pay attention to add appropriate clothing to keep warm. It is also important to keep warm at night.
3.Control emotions
(1) Emotional excitement
During the Spring Festival, there are many gatherings of relatives and friends, and you will have great joy of reunion when you see your children and grandchildren after a long time. But please pay attention to control your emotions. Because when you are emotional, it will make the sympathetic nerves in the body excited and cause a faster heartbeat, accelerated blood flow and small blood vessel constriction, and blood pressure will rise. Many elderly people have varying degrees of hypertension, heart disease, cerebral arteriosclerosis and other disorders, if you are overly emotional, it is easy to “get sad at the end of the day”.
(2) Depressed mood
After the Spring Festival to prevent the “empty nest” elderly from suffering from “post-holiday depression”. Here, we remind you that the psychological adjustment of the elderly after the holidays is particularly important, the elderly must pay attention to the regulation and control of emotions, to avoid rapid changes in mood, to prevent “post-holiday depression”. As children, home to the elderly a safe phone, a greeting is the best “chicken soup” to comfort the lonely elderly.
4, reasonable diet
During the Spring Festival, there are more gatherings of friends and relatives, and there are frequent drinking and dining parties. Families usually buy many snacks as New Year’s Eve goods. In the occasion of everyone’s happy drinking, because many people do not pay attention to diet, overeating, easy to induce holiday disease.
(1) Eat reasonably and do not drink too much
Among the holiday diseases, a large proportion of people are related to improper diet, which is more common to eat continuously high-fat, high-calorie, low vitamin, low-fiber diet caused by heart attack, stroke, cholecystitis and pancreatitis, etc.; unclean diet caused by gastritis, enteritis, etc. As almost every family’s holiday table is piled with meat, eggs, chicken, duck, fish and other foods during the Spring Festival, coupled with the virtue of respect for the elderly, the younger generation keeps giving the elderly dishes, the elderly will eat too much if they are not careful. Therefore, elderly people must pay special attention to the greasy meat dishes must not eat more, every meal should eat some vegetables. Dinner adhere to eat vegetarian food, to seven or eight minutes full is appropriate. During the Spring Festival, there were more people who had accidents due to drinking too much. Among them are alcoholism leading to stroke, pancreatitis attacks and aggravation of liver disease, but also caused by alcoholic gastritis and other acute illnesses. Therefore, do not drink too much during the holidays, it is best not to drink strong alcohol, beer, fruit wine and low white wine should not be drunk. And not more than once a day. When friends and relatives get together, do not fight and drink.
(2) balanced diet balanced nutrition
Staple food: Spring Festival must maintain the daily intake of staple food, at least 100 grams of staple food per day, staple food should pay attention to the coarse and fine grain with, eat more corn, oats, millet. Side dishes: Due to excessive intake of animal food during the Spring Festival, it is easy to cause nutritional imbalance and cause many health problems, pay attention to increase the intake of vegetables and fruits. Fasting forbidden to eat tomatoes, oranges, hawthorn, etc., forbidden to drink cold drinks. When eating seafood, forbid or drink less beer and juice drinks. Do not eat fruit, drink strong tea, drink soft drinks immediately after meals. Drink alcohol in moderation, preferably with wine, remember not to drink on an empty stomach. Cold drinks and cold food (such as ice cream, cold food) should not be consumed too much, otherwise it will lead to cardiovascular, bronchial spasm contraction, aggravating the condition of patients with bronchitis, heart disease. The elderly should have a regular diet and a balanced diet, mainly light. Patients with coronary heart disease, hypertension, to control the intake of animal protein, mainly milk and soy protein, less alcohol and coffee drinks, to prevent overfed-induced myocardial infarction and stroke.
(3) Pay attention to hygiene Safe diet
Do not eat semi-raw food, because parasites and other parasites due to impermeable heating, easy to cause bacterial food poisoning or parasitic diseases; improper cooking, eating methods can lead to poisoning or parasitic diseases. When eating hot pot, meat and other food should be cooked thoroughly before eating to prevent parasitic infection or bacterial food poisoning, and chopsticks for raw and cooked food should be separated to prevent cross-contamination of food. Overnight hot pot food should be eaten sparingly, and children are better off not eating to prevent nitrite poisoning
5, different diseases, different diets
(1) hypertension
Patients with hypertension need to reduce sodium intake; limit alcohol consumption; measure blood pressure regularly. Beans: edible mushrooms: shiitake mushrooms and fungus are high in potassium, calcium and magnesium, in addition to a large number of other phytochemicals and dietary fiber, all of which are needed by people with hypertension. Green leafy vegetables: the darker the green vegetables, the higher the content of potassium, calcium and magnesium, the same vegetable, the leaves are darker than the stem, the natural active ingredient content is also higher, eat celery must be eaten together with the leaves long-term eating celery can make the smooth muscle relaxation of blood vessels, vasodilation, and thus regulate blood pressure. Eat more fish: fish is rich in omega-3 fatty acids that help lower blood pressure, namely DHA and EPA. surveys have found that eating fish once a week without fish, heart disease mortality rate is low.
(2) diabetes
”Change” the new taste, dishes should not be greasy; fruit can be eaten with care; nuts are good not eaten; point to not greedy cup; increase the meal plus medicine is not advisable; “sugar-free” food do not eat more; regular ration must be adhered to. Four words of advice for diabetics. Five carriages do not relax; regular living must be observed; happy spirit do not overwork; happy to spend the New Year”.
(3) Kidney disease
Low salt diet; protein intake (daily protein intake to 0, 8/kg body weight is appropriate; such as accompanied by renal failure, according to the blood creatinine concentration specific arrangements. Daily protein intake should generally be limited to 0,5-0,6g/kg body weight,); intake of sufficient calories: low phosphorus diet; low potassium diet.
(4) Gout
Stay away from raw seafood; resolutely abstain from alcohol and drink more water; eat eight minutes full meals; drink water to ensure (should be kept at 2000ml) control your legs
(5) Hyperthyroidism
Hyperthyroidism patients need to pay attention to their diet.
1. Cannot consume foods and drugs containing much iodine: such as seaweed, nori, seafood, yellow herbs, etc.
2, can not eat stimulating food: such as alcohol, chili, pepper, garlic, etc.
3.Control the limited consumption of food: such as rooster, duck, beef, mutton, dog meat, shrimp, crab, etc.
4. Do not consume foods that may make the thyroid gland swell: cabbage, parsley, peanuts, etc.
(6) coronary heart disease
1, avoid greasy: for patients with coronary heart disease, the diet must be light during the Spring Festival. Eat more fresh vegetables, as well as fruit, black fungus, or soy products; can also eat some lean meat and fish, try to eat less too greasy or high-fat food.
2, avoid cold drinks: must pay attention to the prohibition of cold drinks, because in high temperatures, blood vessels are in a state of expansion, once the cold drinks, most of the patients’ intestinal tract suddenly stimulated, and then the whole body will cause vasoconstriction, a sudden rise in blood pressure, prone to sudden angina, heart attack, cerebral hemorrhage.
3, avoid eating sugar: sugar intake can cause excessive heat into the super, in the body can be converted into fat, causing obesity, and make the blood lipids rise. Therefore, to strictly control the total intake of carbohydrates, especially to control the intake of sugar, can eat compound sugar, control refined sugar: choose starch, brown rice, corn and other plant fiber food, less intake of simple sugar, such as sucrose, fructose.
4, avoid alcohol and tobacco: drinking strong alcohol, can lead to heart disease and hyperlipidemia due to alcohol poisoning. Excessive ethanol can also increase the oxygen consumption of the heart, aggravating coronary heart disease. Should quit smoking, limit alcohol, strong tea, chili and other irritating foods should also be careful to eat.
5, avoid binge drinking: try to take a small number of meals, avoid overeating, especially dinner should not be eaten too much. Try to eat more easily digestible food, at the same time to keep the bowel movements smooth.
6, avoid dehydration: usually to develop the good habit of drinking water regularly. Older patients with coronary artery disease have increased blood viscosity, dehydration leads to increased blood concentration, to a certain extent will appear blood clotting tendency, resulting in ischemia or blockage of the heart and brain vessels, in serious cases can cause myocardial infarction or stroke. It is advisable to drink some boiled water half an hour before bedtime, or after waking up in the middle of the night and early in the morning.