6 key points of children's diet and health care in autumn

As the saying goes, "One autumn rain brings a chill, ten autumn rains bring new clothes." Autumn is the season with the greatest climate change in the year. With the arrival of autumn, children who lack self-protection ability or have weak constitutions are prone to various diseases such as colds, bronchitis, asthma, diarrhea, etc. Autumn is also the harvest season. Various animal meats are fat and delicious, and there are a wide variety of vegetables, fruits and rich nutrition. At the same time, the climate is cool, people's appetite gradually increases, and digestive ability improves. It is the best season to make up for the lack of nutrition caused by the hot summer temperature. Therefore, parents should seize the good opportunity, pay attention to dietary conditioning, and enhance children's disease resistance.

1. Prevent autumn dryness

“Nourish yang in spring and summer, and nourish yin in autumn and winter.” In autumn, the weather turns from hot to cold, the humidity gradually decreases, and the air becomes drier. Therefore, you should pay attention to diet conditioning and eat more foods that nourish yin and moisten the lungs, such as radish, lotus root, pumpkin, lotus seeds, white fungus, longan, black sesame, red dates, walnuts, honey, persimmon, pear, apple, water chestnut, etc., while irritating foods such as chili, onion, ginger, pepper, and garlic should be eaten less.

2. Drink more soup

Replenishing water is one of the important measures to nourish the lungs in autumn. Children are very active during the day and tend to sweat easily, so they should drink more water. Parents can make homemade drinks with puffed lychnophora and rock sugar or white chrysanthemum and honey, which can not only replenish the body's water but also have a health-care and nourishing effect. In addition, you can also choose fresh cabbage, radish, lotus root, etc. and add fish, meat, etc. to make soup, such as peanut chicken feet soup, lotus root beef soup, spinach pork liver soup, radish and pork ribs soup, etc., which are very beneficial to your health.

3. Be careful when eating fruits and vegetables

Autumn is the season when many fruits ripen. Various fruits come on the market one after another, which not only satisfies the appetite but also the rich water, vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber contained in fruits have good health effects on the human body. The climate is dry in autumn. Eating some fruits that can quench thirst, moisten the throat and remove dryness, such as pears, sugarcane, grapes, persimmons, apples, etc., will make people feel refreshed and comfortable, but the more the better. As the saying goes, "autumn melons will upset your stomach", which means that continuing to eat a large amount of raw fruits and melons after the beginning of autumn can easily cause gastrointestinal diseases. Children with weak spleen and stomach should pay attention to eating fruit in moderation.

4. Take supplements at the right time

As the saying goes, "Nourish yourself in autumn and fight the tiger in winter." However, children's growth and development are not yet mature, so dietary therapy should be the main source of tonic. Primary and secondary school students have heavy homework, so parents can let their children eat more peanuts, cashews, almonds, walnuts and other foods, because they are rich in vitamin B and vitamin E, which help to restore mental and physical strength, and also have the effect of strengthening the brain. In addition, children's eyes may become tired easily if they read for too long. They can eat more foods rich in vitamin A, such as carrots, animal liver and kidneys, oysters, red dates, and wolfberries, to reduce the consumption of rhodopsin, a photosensitive substance on the retina, and prevent vision loss.

5. Less spicy and more sour

The so-called "less spicy" means eating less spicy food to prevent the lung qi from being too strong. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that excessive lung qi will damage the function of the liver, so in the autumn, we should "increase acidity" to increase liver function and resist the invasion of excessive lung qi. According to this principle of Chinese medicine nutrition, in the autumn you must eat less spicy foods such as onions, ginger, garlic, leeks, peppers, etc., and eat more sour fruits and vegetables.

6. Pay attention to balanced diet and adjust nutritional recipes

Children's diet should ensure adequate protein, fat and carbohydrates. The protein must be sufficient in quantity and of high quality, and more than half of the food should come from animal protein or soy products. To meet the needs of children's accelerated growth and intellectual development and improve their disease resistance. School-age children should eat more brain-boosting foods, such as fish, soy products, lean meat, eggs, milk, fresh vegetables, fruits, etc. It is necessary to correct children's bad eating habits of picky eating, try to eat less fatty meat, fried food, pickled food, etc., and alternate coarse grains and fine grains.