June 19, 2018
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【炎夏無胃口】吃沙律水果當正餐可以嗎？
#最苦惱是思考今天吃甚麼
#別以為吃少一餐就可當減肥
#星期二正能量
拯救夏日胃口大作戰
有人說人生最煩惱的事，就是思考「今天吃甚麼」，尤其在炎熱的夏天，濕熱的天氣，加上大汗淋漓，令人不想吃熱食，只想多喝汽水冷飲，卻令胃氣脹滿，結果工作了半天，該吃飯的時候依然全無胃口。有時候為求涼快，就隨便吃沙律甚至水果就當一餐，還沾沾自喜地覺得「吃少一點當減肥」，一兩個月過去，發現減肥不成反增磅？
從中醫角度來看，長期飲食生冷加上飲食不定時，會為脾胃帶來負擔，脾濕加重，造成食慾差，整個人也懶洋洋。
在脾胃功能較差的夏天，除了每天飲用米水調理脾胃外，亦可多吃苦味食物，尤其適合炎熱天時食用，有清熱及泄降心火之功效，調整夏天的熱陽，吃以苦味食物入饌的菜色，比吃生冷更有消暑的作用！
苦味食材：苦瓜、生菜、芹菜、萵筍、芫茜、薄荷葉、馬蹄、柚子、杏仁
夏日三餐推介
早餐：番薯粥 / 魚肉燒賣 / 炒米粉
午餐：苦瓜炒蛋飯 / 涼瓜牛肉飯 / 冬菇米+白灼生菜
晚餐：節瓜淮山薏米湯 / 涼拌萵筍 / 馬蹄蒸肉餅
War to save your summer appetite
For some people, figuring out what to eat each day is quite troubling especially during the hot and humid summer. When you’re sweating profusely, you probably don’t want to eat anything hot and just want a cold soda which leads to abdominal gas. After half a day of work, you still don’t have any appetite during lunch time. Some people choose to have salad or fruits as a meal to cool down and even feel like they have eaten less to help with dieting. But a month or two may past and you may notice you haven’t lost any weight but have gained instead?
From Chinese medicine perspective, eating cold and raw foods long term coupled with eating at irregular times adds burden and dampness to the spleen and stomach. This leads to poor appetite and fatigue.
Your spleen and stomach may be functioning poorly in the summer so aside from having rice water daily, you can also try ingredients that are bitter in taste and suitable during the summer to clear heat. These ingredients are effective to relieve summer heat, and they include bitter melon, lettuce, celery, cilantro, mint, chestnuts, grapefruit, almonds.
3 suggested meals for the summer
Breakfast: sweet potato congee/fish meat siu mai/stir fried rice noodle
Lunch: scrambled eggs with bitter melon/beef rice with bitter melon/mushroom rice with boiled lettuce
Dinner: Hairy gourd soup with Chinese yam and coix seeds/cool lettuce/steamed meatloaf with chestnuts
