Three kinds of red fruit warm the cold autumn and winter 
 
 
Source: baotou daily 

    Late autumn cool climate, to make the transition to winter. During this period is the best diet: apple, big jujube, hawthorn.
 
    Apple is very ordinary, but its nutritional value is very high. Of health benefits from ten kinds of fruit, apple first. Indeed, apple can protect the lungs from soot pollution, improve lung function. Apple containing malic acid and citric acid can increase the secretion of gastric juice, promote digest. Apple has a strong kill virus effect, helps to prevent colds. Therefore, apple is known as "all-around health fruit".
 
    Traditional Chinese medicine believes that apple ping gan, invigorating the heart runfei, detoxification, replenishing qi, from ingesting the effect of liver and stomach.
 
    Modern medicine thinks, apple is rich in sugars, organic acids, fiber, vitamins, carotenoids, minerals, polyphenols, and flavonoids, such as 100 grams of apple contains about 10 mg of vitamin C. After many people eat more meat and protein, metabolic cause humoral acidic, not only easy to make a person fatigue, diseases are likely to occur, and the polysaccharide in the apple, potassium ion, pectin can reduce body fluids such as acid, relieve fatigue, prevent disease. Apple in the zinc is the composition of a variety of enzymes in the human body, eliminate fatigue and at the same time also helps to enhance memory. Apple has a very good lower blood lipid. Apple containing pectin are soluble fiber, can promote instead of cholesterol, more can promote fat out of the body. Apple contains plenty of potassium, can be combined with excess sodium in the body side by side out to the body, lowering blood pressure. At the same time, potassium ions can effectively protect blood vessels, and reduce the incidence of high blood pressure, stroke. Apple contains polyphenols and flavonoids can effectively prevent disease of heart head blood-vessel.
 
    Apple has anti-cancer role of polyphenols can inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells, antioxidant flavonoids is a kind of high efficient, but not very good blood vessels cleaning agent, is the bane of cancer. Eat more apple can lower their risk of developing lung cancer 46%, 20% lower risk of other cancers can.
 
    Apple can help prevent osteoporosis can contain bone mineral element and manganese, boron can significantly increase the concentration of estrogen and other compounds in the blood, prevent calcium loss. Especially menopause women, eat apple is conducive to the absorption of calcium, the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.
 
    Apple and beauty, weight loss efficacy of its rich in vitamin C can effectively restrain skin melanin forming, helping to eliminate the pigmentation, increase hemoglobin, postpone skin aging. Apples are rich in fiber, can discharge poison to raise colour; Moisture content as high as 85% and the quantity of heat low, be helpful for weight loss.
 
    Jujube and jujube, dried jujube, jujube, medicine is suitable for food. TCM holds that big jujube flavour gan, wen, spleen, stomach, functions of replenishing qi and nourishing blood sedative, attending food less, weak loose stools, woman dirty pixu (spleen deficient). Jujube beginning in cold-induced febride. Ancient books, called it "the antidote to the poison, and best medicine", every treatment of spleen and stomach weakness, lack of qi and blood, anemia can cold, loss of appetite, fatigue, loose stools, palpitation, insomnia and so on, almost all from jujube.
 
    Modern medicine thinks, big jujube is rich in protein, fat, sugar, carotene, B vitamins, vitamin C, P and calcium, phosphorus, iron, and ring adenosine phosphate and other nutrients. Jujube vitamin C content is very high, every 100 grams more than 400 mg content of fresh jujube meat, have called it a "natural vitamin C pills", have the effect of antioxidant and anti-aging. Proverb says, a day to eat three dates, lifetime don't look old. Seems to be a scientific reason.
 
    Cyclic adenosine phosphate can dilate coronary artery, improve myocardial nutrition, increase myocardial contraction force and the role of inhibition of platelet aggregation, the prevention and treatment of diseases of the cardiovascular system has a good effect. There is a kind of natural plant acid in the jujube, have the effect that protect liver. The study found that jujube extracts can reduce serum cholesterol and increase the serum total protein and albumin, and inhibit the growth of cancer cells.
 
    As a fruit, jujube raw and cooked, each have advantages and disadvantages. Raw can get vitamin C. Ripe eat easy to digest, but the vitamin C in the heat, will have different degree damage.
 
    Hawthorn is the Jane fruit of medicine and food, is a native plant in our country, has three thousand years of history. Traditional Chinese medicine thinks, hawthorn lukewarm taste sour, sweet, can disappear of tonifying spleen, stomach, gas line, activate blood, treat the woman pain postpartum ear pillow, lochia, meat product remove lump, phlegm retention new full, stagnant blood swelling pain, blood clots, gas block, etc. The Ming dynasty great doctor li shizhen's "compendium of materia medica" is pointed out that hawthorn xiaoshi, huayu, governance tumor effect, especially emphasized the hawthorn cake.
 
    Modern scientific thought, hawthorn, hawthorn acid, vitamin C, carotenoids, flavonoids and calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc., have health benefits.
 
    Haw can fall hematic fat. Hawthorn has the effect of remove blood lipids, can treat hyperlipidemia. Haw can reduce the deposition of cholesterol in the artery wall, can resist atherosclerosis and protect the veins.
 
    Haw can disappear blood clots. Hawthorn has blood effect, can inhibit platelet aggregation, anti thrombus, prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction.
 
    Haw can dilate coronary arteries. Hawthorn has the effect of expansion of coronary artery, can relieve angina.
 
    Haw can strong heart. Hawthorn enhanced vasoconstriction, increased blood discharge, to treat arrhythmia.
 
    Haw can decrease the blood viscosity. Haw to dilute the blood, reduce blood viscous effect, so can resist thrombosis.
 
    Haw can lower blood pressure. Hawthorn has the effect to dilate blood vessels, so also can lower blood pressure.
 
 
 
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