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Eat healthy in summer


(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2007-08-17 09:48



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Have special diet care in summer

To survive the hot weather, your body needs to make a lot of adjustments.
The blood circulation, digestive and urinary systems all go through
significant changes. And to help with the body鈥檚 adjustments, a boosted
metabolism is ideal to increase consumption of nourishment in the body.
As a result, it鈥檚 necessary to take special tonics in the summer to
have more protein, vitamins, salt as well as water in your diet. Here are
two recipes.

Straw mushroom lettuce soup

Straw mushroom is a cooling vegetable that鈥檚 rich in protein, fat,
sugar, coarse fiber, calcium, iron and vitamin B1, B2 and C.

Ingredients:

200 grams of fresh straw mushrooms
300 grams of asparagus lettuce
10 grams of ginger
two preserved chilli peppers
salt for taste.

Method:

1 Wash the straw mushrooms, cut off their roots and then dice; peel the
asparagus lettuce, cut it into slices and then wash them.

2 Stir-fry asparagus lettuce and straw mushroom together. Add ginger
slices, salt and preserved chilli peppers as well as 700 grams of water
into the pot. Cook them until the lettuce slices soften.

3 Take the ginger slices and chilli peppers out. The soup is done.

Colorful bean porridge

This dish stimulates the appetite and beans are good for your digestive
system.

Ingredients:

1 gram of red beans, green beans, black beans, yellow beans
1 slice of orange peel
Some rice.

Method:

1 Put all beans, rice and orange peel in water and soak 4 hours.

2 Rinse them again before putting them all in a pot with clean water and
let it boil.

3 When it begins to boil, transfer the porridge into an electric pot and
let it simmer.

4 When it鈥檚 done, add some rock candy. Then you can have a pot of
delicious sticky and soft porridge.




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