In summer, when the weather is hot, the relationship between diet and health is extremely close. If you eat properly, you will be able to get through the summer, but if you don’t pay attention to it, you may catch diseases and damage your health. For the elderly, the summer diet is even more important. First of all, we should pay attention to food hygiene. Summer temperatures are high, leftovers are easily contaminated with bacteria, the best, such as eating, but also must be processed at high temperatures, raw fruits and melons should be washed and peeled. When doing cold dishes, vegetables must be washed, preferably blanched in boiling water; used to cut cooked food knife, plate, and cut raw meat, lettuce separate; cold, should put some garlic paste and vinegar, which can not only increase appetite, help digestion, and has a bactericidal detoxification effect, to prevent the occurrence of intestinal infectious diseases. When making cold drinks, use cool boiled water, not raw water. In summer, the old on people better not eat food from the stalls to avoid food poisoning. Shao Kuiqing, Department of Urology, Xiyuan Hospital, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine The summer temperature is high, the human nerves are often in a state of tension, the function of certain secretory glands are also affected, so there is often a weakened digestion, loss of appetite, so you should eat more light and easily digestible food, such as soybean products, eggs, dairy, chicken, fish, fresh vegetables, fruits and so on, and eat less greasy food. In summer, the body loses more water and salt, so you should drink more water, and drink some light salt water in moderation. But do not drink too much water, so as not to increase the burden on the heart and digestive system, should take a small amount of drinking method. Such as often drink green bean soup, red bean soup, both to prevent summer heat, but also detoxification and appetite. And often drink health tea, it has a solution to the heat and refreshing effect. Common health tea are: salt tea: 1 gram of salt, 5 grams of tea, plus 500 ml of boiling water, brewed, cooled and drink, with heat and thirst; chrysanthemum tea: white chrysanthemum 5 grams, brewed with 500 ml of boiling water, cooled and drink, can clear heat and detoxification. In addition, 500 grams of winter melon, cut into pieces, boil soup 3 bowls, add some salt to taste, 1 day to serve 3 times; with 250 grams of fresh lotus root, sugar, boil water to serve, 1 dose daily. If consumed regularly, it can prevent heatstroke for the elderly who are weak or sickly.