In winter, respiratory diseases are high. Everyone is generally concerned about how to improve immunity, especially in the daily diet, whether there are some healthy diet combinations or healthy eating habits that can help you strengthen your physique and resist viruses.
Yu Kang, director of the Clinical Nutrition Department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, introduced at a recent press conference in National Health Commission that the important basis of reasonable immune maintenance is a reasonable diet. A reasonable diet consists of many kinds of foods, which does not mean that a reasonable diet can be achieved by eating only one or a limited number of foods.
So, how to improve immunity through a reasonable diet? Yu Kang gave five specific suggestions ↓
In addition to the dietary suggestions in the above five aspects, what suggestions can be made in TCM health care to help you strengthen your physique, improve your resistance and prevent respiratory diseases?
Zhang Zhongde, vice president of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and president of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, introduced at a recent press conference in National Health Commission that Chinese medicine pays attention to "keeping healthy qi in the interior, and evil cannot be done", and it is necessary to support healthy qi and resist cold and dry fire.
In terms of diet, eat more foods that help healthy qi and invigorate the spleen and qi. Eat more warm food in winter, such as mutton, beef, chicken, etc. Avoid eating some hot and greasy food, which will be difficult to digest. It can be paired with some radishes. Folk say "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer". Radish can help digestion and nourish yin and qi. In addition, you can choose some medicated diets, mainly to invigorate qi, dispel cold and transport dryness, such as Codonopsis pilosula, Astragalus membranaceus, ginger, perilla leaves, walnuts and other different soups, with different diets, the disease resistance will increase.
Children are the main group infected by respiratory diseases in winter. Parents are generally concerned about what should be done in diet to improve children’s resistance?
Wu Liqun, director of pediatrics department of Oriental Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, introduced at a recent press conference in National Health Commission that in terms of diet, we should pay attention to regular diet and balanced diet. The weather in the north is cold, so you can eat some warm and nutritious foods in winter, such as beef, mutton and fish. However, these foods should not be eaten too much to avoid excessive accumulation of food. In winter, the climate is dry, and you can also eat some lung-moistening foods such as white radish, lotus root, pear, lily and tremella.
For children who have been infected with respiratory diseases, how to grasp the diet in the process of home care?
Yang Jinghua, director of the Pediatrics Department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, introduced at a recent press conference in National Health Commission that parents should focus on the following aspects in the diet of home care for children with respiratory infections ↓
The elderly are also the high incidence of respiratory diseases in winter. Zhang Zhongde introduced at a recent press conference in National Health Commission that for Chinese medicine, the elderly are particularly susceptible to infection in winter because of their aging, deficiency of viscera and qi, and decreased resistance. In terms of diet, you can use some auxiliary Chinese patent medicines that have the effects of invigorating spleen and qi, strengthening exterior, warming yang and dispelling cold, or take medicated diet for protection. However, it should be noted that you should not make big supplements, such as red ginseng, ginseng, cordyceps, etc., but use a mild diet to strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, warm the yang and dispel cold.
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Planning/Poster Design: Wang Ying
Final review: Chen Jingchao
According to National Health Commission’s recent press conference.
