Some elderly people, due to the lack of body yang, show a particular aversion to cold in the cold winter. For these elderly people, choosing some qi-tonifying and yang-boosting foods in their diet can accelerate metabolism, enhance secretion function, and effectively improve the phenomenon of aversion to cold.
1. Meat
Among meats, dog meat, mutton, beef, deer meat, donkey meat, rooster meat, duck meat, quail, crucian carp, turtle, octopus, and grass carp have the best effect in keeping warm. They are beneficial for tonifying the kidney and yang, warming the middle and lower energizer, and nourishing qi and blood.
2. Root vegetables
Root vegetables such as carrots, yams, greens, Chinese cabbage, lotus root, cauliflower, scallion, and potatoes contain a large amount of minerals, which can be mixed with meat for consumption in order to keep warm.
3. Iron-rich foods
Elderly people with iron-deficiency anemia tend to be sensitive to cold, so they should eat more iron-rich foods such as animal blood, egg yolks, pork liver, beef kidney, lamb tongue, soybeans, sesame, bean curd skin, and black fungus.
4. Iodine-rich foods
The human thyroid gland secretes a hormone called thyroxine, which has a thermogenic effect, and thyroxine is composed of iodine and tyrosine. Tyrosine can be "produced" in the body, but iodine needs to be supplemented from the outside. Seaweed, nori, shellfish, oysters, sardines, spinach, and fish and shrimp are rich in iodine and can be chosen for consumption.
