What are some tips for women to keep healthy in winter?

Winter is a very cold season of the year. People with poor health should pay special attention to taking care of their bodies in winter. Because of their special physiological characteristics, women should pay special attention to taking care of their bodies in winter. Pay attention to keeping warm and don't let your body catch cold. So what are some common knowledge about women’s health in winter? Let us introduce it in detail below.

1. Hibernation in winter does not mean sitting still

Now many people are discussing the issue of health preservation in winter, and many women are worried about gaining weight in winter. Someone brought up the statement in the "Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic": spring is for growth, summer is for growth, autumn is for harvest, and winter is for storage. In winter, one should "not disturb the yang" and should keep hidden. Therefore, one should not exercise outdoors in winter, nor should one exercise to lose weight. Instead, one should rest in a warm room, avoid wind and cold, to maintain the yang energy.

At the same time, eating more high-calorie foods in winter can keep you warm. It’s okay to gain a few pounds, and you can lose weight in the spring. Are these words correct?

As the saying goes, everything should be done in moderation. Anthropologists have found that the average daily physical activity of humans 5,000 years ago was more than three times that of modern people. In other words, even if the ancients "hibernated during the winter", they still had a considerable amount of physical activity compared to today's standards.

It just means doing less heavy physical work, not sitting or lying down every day. People mainly rely on muscle movement to generate heat. If they always sit still, they will inevitably find it difficult to resist the severe cold. Therefore, even in winter, doing aerobic exercise outdoors for half an hour to an hour every day does not violate the so-called winter hibernation.

2. Tonic, mainly for nutrition

Let’s talk about the issue of gaining weight through nourishing the body in winter. In fact, what you need to replenish in winter is not fat, but internal organs, muscles, your immune system, detoxification system and other useful parts of the body. This kind of "supplementation" does not require too much fat, too much sugar, or too much refined starch.

For example, the nourishing part of chicken refers to the lean meat part rather than the chicken skin and chicken fat; the nourishing part of yam does not require adding oil and sugar to make it into candied yam. Eating natural foods with less oil and sugar can have a nourishing effect without causing you to gain too much fat.

On the other hand, overeating greasy fried foods, eating large amounts of biscuits, cakes, candies, refined starch, sweets, and potato chips will not help with winter health maintenance. It will only lead to malnutrition, and when spring comes, there will be "few people living", resulting in premature aging and weakness.

Therefore, there is no contradiction between keeping in good health and losing weight. By eating the right natural foods and reducing fat and sugar, you can improve your nutrition and physical fitness, and achieve the goal of "replenishing blood and qi" without gaining weight.

The above are the tips for women’s winter health care. In winter, women can choose the method that suits them to maintain their bodies according to their own physical characteristics. These methods are all very good at taking better care of the body. In addition, in other seasons, women should also actively take care of their bodies.