Eat more colorful peppers and semi-vegetarian dishes to prevent chronic diseases during the Spring Festival

When you have a reunion dinner during the Chinese New Year, don’t eat too much fat! According to statistics from the National Health Administration, after the Spring Festival, the average person will gain about 2 kilograms, causing a burden on the body. Nutritionists recommend choosing more semi-vegetarian dishes to replace traditional meat and fish dishes, such as pork slices with bell peppers, fried scallops with sweet beans, etc., to increase the intake of vegetables and stay away from the threat of high-fat New Year dishes!

It is recommended to choose more semi-vegetarian dishes for the New Year to replace the traditional big fish and meat, such as: pork slices with colored peppers.

Most traditional New Year dishes are rich in fat and sugar, and have a high protein content, but the dietary fiber content is extremely low. There is a table full of delicious food, but not a single vegetable to be seen. After-meal snacks are often made up of pastries and desserts! This results in problems such as weight, blood fat, increased blood sugar and high uric acid after the New Year.

Control your weight! Semi-vegetarian dishes replace traditional meat and fish

What should we eat during the Chinese New Year to help control weight during the festival and slow down the increase of blood sugar and blood fat? Luo Xinyu, a nutritionist at the Health Management Center, recommends choosing more semi-vegetarian dishes to replace traditional meat and fish dishes, such as pork slices with bell peppers, fried scallops with sweet beans, etc., to increase vegetable intake invisibly. Bell peppers are rich in vitamins and trace elements, and have the effects of replenishing blood, eliminating fatigue, preventing colds and promoting blood circulation.

When choosing staple foods, you can choose more whole grains and root vegetables. Add whole grains such as five-grain rice, brown rice, and black rice to rice, or add root vegetables such as pumpkin, corn, and yam to dishes, such as: yam and pork ribs soup, corn fried shrimp, etc.

Say no to high calories! Replace pastries and desserts with seasonal fresh fruits

As for the choice of after-meal snacks, it is suitable to replace pastries and desserts with fresh seasonal fruits to reduce the intake of refined sugars. In this way, not only can the calorie intake be reduced, but also the nutritional value of dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, etc. can be increased.

In terms of cooking methods, choose less oil-intensive steaming, stir-frying and other dishes instead of frying or pan-frying, such as steamed fish with shredded ginger instead of sweet and sour fish.

Avoid high oil! Use less oil for steaming and stir-frying instead of frying and deep-frying

In addition, in terms of cooking methods, choose more low-oil steaming, stir-frying and other dishes instead of frying and pan-frying to reduce excess fat calories, such as: steamed fish with shredded ginger instead of sweet and sour fish, steamed rice cake instead of fried rice cake; and reduce processed pickled foods, such as: bacon, meatballs, etc., and replace them with fresh ingredients.

You should also be careful when using seasonings. You can also use natural spices such as mushrooms, lemon, chopped green onions, chili peppers, etc. to replace processed condiments such as hot sauce and shacha sauce to avoid high blood pressure. The intake of fish and meat should account for about 1/4 of each meal. When eating, you can adjust the order of eating, eat vegetables first to fill the stomach, and then match them with high-fiber staple foods and beans, fish, meat and eggs, to reduce the intake of too much fish and meat and reduce the burden on the body.

[Nutritionist's Tips]:

During the Chinese New Year holidays, pay more attention to food selection, cooking methods and type distribution. With a few simple steps, you can reduce the burden on your body. If you can also combine it with moderate exercise to consume the excess calories from the Chinese New Year diet, you will be healthier and avoid chronic diseases after the Chinese New Year!