The weather is getting colder and colder. Everyone will think what to eat to tonic and keep out the cold? Many people think of beef. Beef has always been an important food for people to tonify in autumn and winter. Instant boiled beef, fat beef, stewed beef brisket, steak and beef soup are all our favorites. Recently, a report said that Aunt Zhang, 53, in Guangzhou, wanted to take tonic in autumn and winter. She ate 3 kg of beef and other food one night. Then she was sent to the emergency department due to abdominal pain. She was found to have acute pancreatitis. Her blood lipid exceeded the standard seriously and was rescued by ICU. Eating 3 kilograms of beef in one night is really too much, which will increase the risk of pancreatitis. Let's talk about how to arrange a healthier diet in winter? Heme iron in beef alleviates "fear of cold" But other meats have similar effects Many people think that one of the reasons why eating beef can tonic and help keep out the cold in winter is that they feel very warm after eating beef. They think that beef can warm up and help keep out the cold, especially those who are afraid of cold. They always have cold hands and feet, and they will feel very warm after eating beef. Why do you think eating beef can warm up? There are three main reasons: 1. Meat has high energy. As a kind of meat, beef is rich in high-quality protein and a lot of fat. Because beef is delicious, we often eat a lot and consume a lot of energy. These energy will make us feel warm and help us resist the cold. 2. Food has high thermal effect. Beef is rich in protein, and the "food heat effect" of protein is large, that is, compared with the other two kinds of nutrients, carbohydrates and fat, protein produces more calories during digestion and absorption, which makes people feel warmer after eating. 3. Rich in iron. The human body's heat generation system is like a big boiler. The food we eat is fuel. The hemoglobin in the blood is responsible for transporting "combustion supporting" oxygen. Only when the fuel and oxygen are sufficient can the body continuously get heat supply. If people are short of iron and anemia, and the oxygen carried by hemoglobin is insufficient, they will feel cold more easily. Many people always have cold hands and feet, which is often caused by iron deficiency anemia. Beef can provide a large amount of heme iron, which is conducive to improving the content of hemoglobin and alleviating the cold phobia of anemia and hypotension. After understanding these possible reasons, it is not difficult to find that eating pork, mutton, chicken, duck and fish can also achieve similar effects as beef, and they are no worse than beef. Hands and feet are cold in winter It's no use drinking ginger water or red dates In winter, many people feel cold and cold, so they want to take more tonics. Many folk prescriptions spread in the market suggest drinking more ginger water and eating red dates. Is this really effective? In fact, neither ginger water nor red jujube can effectively improve the problem of body cold. Winter is easy to be cold, hands and feet are cold, mainly because it is cold. If you feel cold, adding clothes and keeping warm is the king. Drinking hot ginger water will keep you warm, mainly because the temperature of hot water has nothing to do with ginger; As for jujube, it is rich in vitamin C, which can promote the absorption of iron, but it won't make you feel warmer. If you want to improve your diet, you can eat more food rich in protein, because the high thermal effect of protein food will increase the heat dissipation of the human body and make people more comfortable. In addition, it is suggested that you should also ensure more than 30 minutes of aerobic exercise every day in winter to promote blood circulation and make you feel warm. At the same time, exercise will increase human metabolic rate and enhance the ability to resist cold. How to eat beef to warm up and healthy? How to eat beef healthily? Note three points: 1. Moderate, don't eat too much. China's dietary guidelines recommend eating 40 ~ 75 grams of livestock and poultry meat every day, that is, less than 22. A dish of instant boiled fat cattle may be half a kilo to eight Liang, and a dish of instant boiled fat cattle exceeds the standard. 2. Match with vegetables and fruits. Although beef is delicious, it can't just eat meat. The key to health is to diversify your food, eat everything and eat nothing more. It's not good to eat too much beef. You should pay attention to collocation with some vegetables and fruits. 3. Drink less soup and try to eat meat. In fact, there is little nutrition in the soup, most of which is still in the meat. Milky beef soup contains a lot of fat. It tastes good, but it is not healthy. Don't eat too much meat for tonic in winter In fact, although it is colder in winter, the diet in winter is not very different from that in other seasons. We still need to maintain good eating habits and pay attention to balanced nutrition. We can't just eat meat and eat too much meat. In order to achieve healthy tonic in winter, we can start from several aspects: 1. Refer to the diet pagoda to arrange daily diet to ensure food diversity. When winter is cold, many people just want to eat meat, so they don't want to eat vegetables and fruits. In fact, when resisting the severe cold, the human body will have a greater demand for trace elements such as vitamin C and minerals. Therefore, we should not only think about eating meat, but also eat diversified foods, especially pay attention to ensuring the intake of vegetables and fruits. 2. Pay attention to drinking more water. You can drink warm water. Winter is dry, and the human body needs more water. If you feel cold, you can drink more warm water. But don't be too hot. Because hot water above 65 ℃ increases the risk of cancer. 3. Pay attention to potassium intake. Increase the intake of potassium rich foods (fresh vegetables, fruits and beans), and reduce the intake of sugary drinks, red meat and foods with high saturated fat. 4. Eat high-quality protein. Increase the intake of foods with high protein content, such as lean meat and chicken breast, but avoid foods with high fat content, such as fat meat. 5. Appropriately increase aerobic exercise to increase the ability to resist cold. The most fundamental thing to keep out the cold is a strong physique. You can't stay at home because it's cold. The more you don't love activities, the easier you get fat. If you have less activities, your metabolic activities will slow down, but you will become more afraid of cold. Therefore, we should also keep exercising in winter. (outlook new era)