Dietary principles for a smart brain and local customs for the first meal of the Spring Festival
**19. How to Eat Your Way to a Smarter Brain?**
Human work, study, and thought processes are all inseparable from the brain, and a "smart" brain is inseparable from "eating".
The human brain contains approximately 14 billion brain cells, which can be rapidly and efficiently collected and stored.
And to process various kinds of information.
The brain consumes a significant portion of the body's total oxygen needs on a daily basis.
20% of the body's blood is pumped to the brain, demonstrating how "intensive" the human brain is.
The ability to function properly and the quality of mental activity in a normal person largely depends on what they eat.
To develop a smarter brain through diet, you must first cultivate good eating habits.
Make sure to eat breakfast
good.
A good breakfast should ensure sufficient intake of starches, honey, and protein to meet the body's nutritional needs.
The brain's need for nutrients.
Because starch is hydrolyzed in the human body and eventually turns into glucose,
The brain's only energy source is glucose.
If you don't eat breakfast or your breakfast intake is insufficient...
Sufficient blood sugar levels will drop around 9-10 am, the time when mental work is most intense, thus affecting the brain.
Feeling drowsy, unable to concentrate, slow to react, and experiencing a significant decrease in work and study efficiency.
Low.
Over time, some mental workers may even experience hypoglycemic shock.
It is evident that eating a good breakfast is essential.
Meals are the foundation for health, brain health, and intelligence.
To develop a smarter brain, it's essential to supplement with brain-boosting nutrients.
This nutrient outline
The eye contains lipids, proteins, vitamins, and inorganic salts.
Its "content" and intellectually stimulating principles
The reasons are explained below:
(1) Fatty foods are essential substances for brain tissue metabolism.
It contains long-chain unsaturated fatty acids that can participate in the production of brain cells.
Walnuts, fish and shrimp,
It is abundant in shellfish.
The brain also has a particular fondness for lecithin, which releases acetylcholine in the body.
Alkali acts as a bridge for information transmission between brain nerve cells, and is crucial for enhancing memory.
Yes; lecithin is found in foods such as soybeans and soy products, sesame seeds, egg yolks, fish roe, and animal brains.
It has a relatively high content.
(2) Protein foods are the basic substances for complex intellectual activities.
Protein can make people have
Keen perception and judgment play a crucial role in the excitation and inhibition of brain nerve cells.
Its main function is to resist oxidation of brain cells and improve brain activity.
force.
Studies have shown that severe protein deficiency in pregnant women during fetal development can lead to intellectually disabled babies.
Or dementia.
Therefore, it is recommended to eat more dairy products, lean meat, poultry, eggs, animal liver, and fresh fish.
(3) B vitamins, vitamin C, A and E are helpers to increase brain intelligence.
B vitamins B₁
It can help with protein metabolism in the brain.
The brain is also a source of vitamin C in the human body.
The highest concentration of vitamin C in food can improve children's intelligence.
Vitamin A can promote the normal development of brain tissue.
Vitamin E can prevent brain cells from accumulating.
Decreased vitality and functional impairment.
Therefore, we should eat more whole grains and mixed grains in our daily lives, and change our diet from only refined grains.
In addition to the bad habit of relying solely on rice and wheat flour, we should eat more nuts, seaweed, beans, peanuts, citrus fruits, and carrots.
Radishes, colored vegetables, etc.
(4) Among inorganic salts, calcium, in particular, acts as an inhibitor of abnormal excitation of brain nerves.
Calcium ions
It can improve the brain's memory and concentration.
Calcium deficiency can easily cause agitation, allergies, and impair mental function.
The inability to sustain activity and difficulty concentrating can negatively impact the development of intelligence and memory.
Therefore from
From childhood, children should consume more calcium-rich foods such as dairy products, soy products, bone broth, fish, shrimp, and shellfish.
This type of calcium salt is designed to meet the body's need for calcium salts.
The brain is the source of wisdom.
One of the important indicators of human health is "intelligence".
Right now
Even if a person has a physical disability, as long as their will is not broken, their mind is healthy and perfect.
To ensure you
If you have a sharp mind, are intelligent, and can handle demanding mental and physical work, then please focus on the quality of your food.
Pay attention to the quantity and types of food you eat to maintain your health!
20. What should we eat for the first meal of the Spring Festival?
The first meal on the first day of the Lunar New Year is, of course, dumplings.
Actually, this refers to the Northeast, North China, and Northwest regions.
Han Chinese customs.
Dumplings are shaped like ingots, symbolizing good fortune and prosperity for the family in the new year.
my country has a vast territory and a large population, with a rich and diverse food culture and various local traditions and customs.
They are not quite the same, and the food and drinks also differ, but they all celebrate the New Year, family gatherings, and wishing each other a happy new year.
Aspirations such as happiness, good fortune, wealth, health, longevity, a sweet life, and everlasting happiness.
They are exactly the same.
Before the Spring Festival in 1996, the Health News featured an article by Shu Chunfang introducing various regions of my country.
The menu for the first day of the Lunar New Year is excerpted below:
People in Tuanfeng, Hubei Province, drink chicken soup for their first meal of the Spring Festival, symbolizing "peace and tranquility".
Main labor force eat
Chicken feet symbolize "grabbing wealth in the new year"; promising young people eating chicken wings signify that they will achieve their goals.
Spreading wings and soaring high; the head of the family eating a chicken head signifies "standing out from the crowd."
People in Zigui eat oil for their first meal.
Fried white mugwort, whose name sounds like "hundred good things" in Chinese, symbolizes a long and happy marriage and a prosperous family.
Jingzhou and Shashi
In this area, the first meal eaten is an egg, called "stone-rolling egg," which is believed to bring "truly substantial, auspicious, and good fortune."
If you encounter
The guest requested three tender boiled eggs, with the yolk visible through the egg white, symbolizing "silver purse".
Gold, gold wrapped in silver, one gains both gold and silver.
In most parts of Hubei, the first meal of the Spring Festival is "nian gao" (rice cake), which means "getting better year by year".
(good)".
In some parts of southern Jiangsu, people also eat rice cakes and sweet glutinous rice balls, symbolizing "family reunion and happiness."
"Live a sweet and happy life, and improve step by step."
"Gao" is a homophone for "high".
When eating rice cakes, one should wish for success.
Young people: "May you rise higher every year."
The Miao people living in Hubei province traditionally eat sweet wine and zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) for their first meal, symbolizing...
It means "a sweet life and a bountiful harvest".
In some parts of Guangdong, the first meal of the year is "ten-thousand-year grain," which is made by washing or steaming grains on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
The food is enough for the whole family to eat for three days during the Spring Festival, with the intention of "not having to worry about food and drink".
The first meal in the Chaozhou area
They eat "fuyuan," a fried dough made from rice flour and radish filling, and drink "wu" soup, a soup made from fox nuts, lotus seeds, and other ingredients.
"Fruit soup" implies "a sweet life with a long history".
People in southern Fujian traditionally eat noodles for their first meal of the Spring Festival, symbolizing "longevity year after year"; this custom is also observed in the Zhangzhou area.
Eating sausages, preserved eggs, and ginger symbolizes "a prosperous and thriving life."
In the Poyang region of Jiangxi, people eat dumplings and fish, which symbolize "exchange of goods" and "abundance year after year."
some
A dumpling is filled with sugar cubes, peanuts, and coins. Whoever finds the coin in the dumpling will have a "sweet life" and "longevity."
"Old age" and "May you prosper in the New Year".
In some parts of Zhejiang, the first meal of the Spring Festival consists of celery, leeks, bamboo shoots, and other spring vegetables.
The plate symbolizes "diligence and longevity".
In parts of Guanzhong and Henan, the first meal of the year is a dish of dumplings and noodles cooked together, called "Jin".
"Silk thread through ingots" and "Silver thread hanging gourds".
In some parts of Taiwan, people eat "longevity vegetables" for their first meal of the Lunar New Year. These vegetables have very long stems and leaves.
Some mustard greens have a bitter taste, and some even add thin vermicelli to the dish, symbolizing "continuous life and longevity".
As people's living standards improve, the customs surrounding the first meal of the Spring Festival are changing; some now focus on eating...
Spring rolls symbolize wishes for "youthful happiness," while some use "happy fruit" to signify "all things going well and wishes fulfilled."
"Success is assured," some say, referring to the fresh lychees eaten for the first meal of the Spring Festival, as it is said that "eating fresh lychees for the first meal of the Spring Festival will keep you young forever."
The newlyweds' first meal of the Spring Festival is a bowl of "lotus seed, red date, and lily bulb soup," symbolizing "eternal union."
May your hearts be united in harmony for a hundred years.
Regardless of what they eat or how they eat it, it all reflects people's yearning for a happy life.