It’s the
winter tonic season for
women who eat 3 catties of beef after eating 3 catties of beef
. 5 points to keep in mind
The weather is getting colder and colder. Everyone will want to eat something to nourish the cold.
Many people think of beef.
Beef has always been an important food for people to nourish in autumn and winter. Shabu beef, fat beef, stewed sirloin, steak, beef soup are everyone's favorite.
There was a recent report that Aunt Zhang, 53 years old in Guangzhou, was thinking about supplementing for the fall and winter. She ate 3 catties of beef and other food in one night. Then she was sent to the emergency department due to abdominal pain and was found to be acute pancreatitis. Her blood lipids were severely exceeded and she was rescued by the ICU. Just turn danger into a bargain.
Eating 3 catties of beef in one night is indeed too much, which will increase the risk of pancreatitis.
Let's discuss today, how to arrange a healthier diet in winter tonic?
Heme iron in beef relieves "fear of cold"
But other meats have similar effects
Many people think that eating beef in winter can tonic and help keep out the cold. One of the reasons is that they feel 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 feel cold when they eat some beef. The body is particularly warm.
Why do you think that eating beef can warm you up? There are three main reasons:
1. Meat is high in 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. This energy will make us feel warm and help us. Resist the severe cold.
2. The heat effect of food is high.
Beef is rich in protein, and protein has a greater "food caloric effect", which means that protein generates more calories when digested and absorbed than the other two types of nutrients, carbohydrates and fats. After eating, people feel the body. Warmer.
3. Rich in iron.
The human body's heat production system is like a big boiler. The food we eat is fuel, and the hemoglobin in the blood is responsible for the transportation of "combustion-supporting" oxygen. Only when fuel and oxygen are sufficient, the body can continuously receive heat supply.
If a person is iron-deficient or anemia, and the oxygen carried by hemoglobin in the body is insufficient, it will be more likely to feel cold. 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 beneficial to increase the content of hemoglobin and alleviate cold symptoms in people with anemia and hypotension.
After understanding these possible reasons, it is not difficult to find that eating pork, lamb, chicken, duck, and fish can also achieve similar effects to beef, and none of them are worse than beef.
Cold hands and feet in winter
Drinking ginger water or red dates is actually useless
In winter, many people feel cold in their bodies and hands and feet, so they want to get more tonic.
Many remedies circulating in the market suggest that you should drink more ginger water and eat red dates.
Does this really work?
In fact, neither ginger water nor red dates can effectively improve body cold.
The main reason why you get cold hands and feet in winter is mainly because of cold.
If you feel cold, adding more clothes and keeping warm is the kingly way.
Drinking hot ginger water will make you warm, mainly because the temperature of the hot water has nothing to do with ginger; as for red dates, its rich vitamin C content can promote iron absorption, but it does not make you feel more warm.
If you want to improve from your diet, you can eat more protein-rich foods, because protein foods have a high heat effect, which will increase the body's heat dissipation and make people more comfortable.
In addition, it is recommended that you also ensure more than 30 minutes of aerobic exercise a day in winter to promote blood circulation and also make you feel warm.
At the same time, exercise will increase the body's metabolic rate and enhance the ability to resist cold.
How to eat beef to warm up and be healthy?
How to eat beef healthily?
Pay attention to three points:
1. Moderate amount, don't eat too much.
my country's dietary guidelines recommend 40 to 75 grams of livestock and poultry meat a day, which is less than two taels. A plate of beef-boiled beef may be half a catty to eighty taels, and one plate of beef is too much.
2. Match fruits and vegetables.
Although beef is delicious, you can't just eat meat.
The key to health is to diversify food, eat everything, not much.
It’s not good to eat too much beef, you still have to pay attention to matching some vegetables and fruits.
3. Drink less soup and try to eat meat.
There are very few nutrients in the soup, most of which are still in the meat.
Milky white beef broth has a lot of fat and tastes good, but it is not healthy.
Don't eat too much meat for winter tonic
In fact, although the winter is colder, the winter diet is not very different from other seasons. It is still necessary to maintain good eating habits, pay attention to nutritional balance, and not just eat meat or eat too much meat.
In order to achieve a healthy winter tonic, you can start from several aspects:
1. Refer to the food pagoda to arrange daily diet to ensure food diversification.
In the cold winter, many people just think of eating meat instead of vegetables and fruits.
In fact, when resisting severe cold, the human body will have greater demand for vitamin C, minerals and other trace elements. Therefore, you should not just think about eating meat, but eat a variety of foods, and pay special attention to ensuring the availability of vegetables and fruits. intake.
2. Pay attention to drink plenty of water, you can drink warm water.
In the dry winter, the human body has a greater demand for water.
If you feel cold, drink plenty of warm water.
However, it should not be too hot.
Because hot water above 65°C will increase 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 rich in saturated fat.
4. Eat high-quality protein.
Increase the intake of foods high in protein, such as lean meat and chicken breast, but avoid foods high in fat, such as fatty meat.
5. Appropriately increase aerobic exercise to increase the ability to resist cold.
The most fundamental thing to keep out of the cold is a strong body.
Don’t stay at home because of the cold. The less active you are, the easier you will gain weight. If you are less active, your body’s metabolic activity will slow down, and on the contrary, you will become more afraid of the cold.
Therefore, insist on exercising in winter.
Text / Ruan Guangfeng
(Director of Science and Technology Department of Food and Nutrition Information Exchange Center)