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Recipes by Month 按月份的食谱

After New Year's Day, it also means that we have begun to enter the beginning of the new year. Although January is the beginning of the year, the weather is still relatively cold, so people should make appropriate adjustments in diet, daily life, and exercise, especially some children, the elderly, etc., should pay more attention. Let's take a look at how people should maintain their health in January, and what matters need special attention.

Weather in January

After New Year's Day, the lunar calendar is already the twelfth lunar month, and there are two solar terms, Xiaohan and Dahan. The weather is cold, and health care should be the theme of preventing cold and keeping warm. If you accidentally get cold and your resistance is weakened, the cold virus will take advantage of it and attack our respiratory system. Special attention should be paid to the prevention of respiratory diseases such as colds, coughs, bronchitis, and pneumonia.

What to eat for health in January

Vegetables: leeks, peppers, coriander, shepherd's purse, pumpkin, yam, zucchini, broccoli, carrots, cabbage, celery, etc.

Fruits: strawberries, water chestnuts, sugar cane, persimmons, kiwi, cherries, chestnuts, papaya, dates

Meat: lamb, pork, chicken, eel, silver carp

Others: walnut kernels, almonds, longan, ginger, green onions, pepper, cinnamon

The above foods have the effects of invigorating the spleen and stomach, warming the kidney yang, invigorating the spleen and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and invigorating the lungs. Of course, those with a hot constitution and those who are prone to getting angry should pay attention to slow supplementation and eat less. In addition, it should be noted that in this season, you should eat less cold foods such as seafood and cold drinks, because the weather is cold, and the cold inside and outside can easily damage the spleen and stomach, thereby damaging the righteousness.

Recommended recipes for January

1. Stewed lamb with angelica and longan

Materials: 15 grams of angelica, 10 grams of longan, 15 grams of wolfberry, 500 grams of mutton.

Method: Cut the mutton into pieces, add ginger and boil in boiling water for a while, rinse and drain, add various medicines, add to the soup, simmer in water, and drink the soup to eat the meat.

2. Pumpkin Chicken Noodle Soup

Material: appropriate amount of chicken, 300g pumpkin, 8 mushrooms, half onion, noodles

Method: Wash all the ingredients and cut them into small pieces, blanch the chicken in water, then fry the chicken until it changes color, then add the onion, pumpkin, and mushrooms, stir-fry, season, pour into the pot, and add noodles to cook.

3. Fried carrots with broccoli

Material: a small broccoli, two carrots

Practice: Cut the broccoli into small florets and slice the carrots, put them into boiling water and blanch them, first put the carrots into the pot and stir-fry, then add the broccoli, and season with chicken essence, salt, soy sauce, etc.

4. Fried lamb with chives

Material: 50 grams of chives, 300 grams of mutton

Practice: Wash the mutton and cut it into thin slices, wash the leeks and cut them into small pieces, first pour the mutton into the pot, add ginger, minced garlic, etc. and fry until fragrant, stir-fry until nine mature, add leeks, salt, monosodium glutamate to taste. .

5. Sugar cane water chestnut juice

Material: sugar cane, water chestnut amount

Practice: After washing the sugar cane and water chestnuts, pour them into the juicer, pour in an appropriate amount of cool boiled water and stir into juice, you can add a little rock sugar.

how to keep healthy in january

Chinese medicine believes that cold is the main qi in winter, and cold is the evil yin, which can easily damage the yang qi of the human body. Therefore, the key to maintaining health in January is to "nourishing the kidneys and preventing cold".

First, try to go to bed early and wake up late. Going to bed early and getting up late in winter, and maintaining a long rest time, can make the will quiet, and the yang qi hidden in the human body will not be disturbed. This is the first thing to pay attention to in winter health care.

Second, keep warm. The weather is cold in January, so try to reduce the frequency of going out. Even if you want to go out, you should wear thick clothes, especially the back and knees and other parts that are prone to cold should be well protected, and don’t be greedy for cold.

Keep exercising again. In winter, the weather is cold, and many people shy away from exercising. In fact, proper exercise can increase heat for the body, and can also improve the body's resistance and immunity, so that the body is protected from cold and germs.

Finally, pay attention to nourishment in the diet. After consumption in summer and autumn, proper nourishment should be carried out in the diet in winter, especially some warmer meats can be eaten appropriately, and fresh vegetables and fruits should also be added.

Diet tips for January

Nowadays, various medicated hot pots have become delicious delicacies for people to relieve cold and strong heat, but many people ignore the problem of reasonable supplements, especially young people, they should choose supplements according to their own conditions, and don’t be greedy for thick and spicy food. Food, otherwise, can easily get angry. The usual foods should be high-calorie, vitamin-rich foods. In addition to cereal products, red sweet potatoes, red beans, sesame seeds, peanuts, walnuts, etc. should also be used.