The 2018 health-preserving recipe collection is here

The Chinese New Year is approaching, and every year-end is a challenge for the diet, especially a reminder that friends with dietary restrictions need to pay extra attention, being careful to avoid tobacco and alcohol and to eat healthily. The editor has put together 12 health-preserving dishes, recommended for middle-aged and elderly friends.

Shiitake mushrooms with baby bok choy

1. Baby bok choy: maintains blood vessel elasticity

Baby bok choy containsa large amount of crude fiber, which in the intestinescombines with fat and cholesterol, reducing the absorption of these substances, preventing the formation of cholesterol in the blood, and thereby reducing the formation of atherosclerosis, thusmaintaining blood vessel elasticity。

Moreover, its rich minerals such as calcium and magnesium have a clear effect in helping to reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease.

Shrimp with cauliflower

2. Cauliflower: blood vessel cleanser

Traditional Chinese medicine has long held the saying thatwhite enters the lungs, and pure white cauliflower is undoubtedly a timely health vegetable, not only able tomoisten and nourish the lungs, but also a very good blood vessel cleanser.

Chinese kale with garlic

3. Chinese kale: softens blood vessels

Chinese kale is rich indietary fiber and minerals, all of which can helplower cholesterol, soften blood vessels, and prevent heart disease, and so on.

Broccoli

4. Broccoli: blood vessel cleanser

Broccoli is one of the foods containing the mostflavonoids. Besides being able toprevent infection, flavonoids are also the best blood vessel cleanser, able to prevent cholesterol from oxidizing and coagulating and prevent platelet clumping, therebyreducing the risk of heart disease and stroke。

Scrambled eggs with tomatoes

5. Tomato: antioxidant

Tomatoes not only contain much more of variousvitaminsthan apples and pears, they can alsoenhance the body's antioxidant capacity, eliminate free radicals and other bodily waste, protect blood vessel elasticity, and prevent thrombus formation.

Carrot porridge

6. Carrot: eliminates toxins

Carrot is an effectivemercury-eliminatingfood. The large amount ofpectinit contains can combine with mercury, effectively lowering the concentration of mercury ions in the blood, promoting blood circulation, and speeding up the elimination of toxins.

Winter melon and pork rib soup

7. Winter melon: prevents arteriosclerosis

Winter melon has the effects ofpromoting urination and reducing swelling, clearing heat, quenching thirst, and detoxifying. Eating winter melon regularly can reduce the body's fat content and also has a beneficial effect on arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure.

Stir-fried pork with onion

8. Onion: resists arteriosclerosis

Onion contains aprostaglandin Athat can dilate blood vessels. It canrelax blood vessels，lower blood viscosity, and reduce the pressure on blood vessels. At the same time, onion can also enhance the activity of fibrinolytic dissolution, and has the function of lowering blood lipids and blood sugar and resisting arteriosclerosis.

Vinegar-soaked garlic cloves

9. Garlic: prevents thrombus formation

Theallicinin garlic can weaken the activity of the enzyme that synthesizes cholesterol in the liver, therebylowering cholesterol in the bodylevels and keeping the blood in a healthy state.

In addition, garlic also contains a sulfide calledgarlic neomycin. This substance can reduce cholesterol in the blood andprevent thrombus formation。

Black wood ear

10. Black wood ear: eliminates toxic substances

Modern medical research has found that aplant gumcontained in wood ear has a strong adsorptive capacity, able to gather and absorb impurities remaining in the human digestive system and then expel them from the body, therebydetoxifying and cleansing the stomach and intestines.

Shredded kelp

11. Kelp: prevents thrombosis

Kelp is rich infucoidan and laminarin. These substances all have heparin-like activity, and can both prevent thrombus formation and lower cholesterol and inhibit atherosclerosis.

Vinegar-soaked peanuts

12. Peanuts: cleanse blood vessel walls

The last one introduced is peanuts. They are rich inunsaturated fatty acids. Unsaturated fatty acids have the effect of cleansing blood vessel walls, and can also help soften blood vessels and control blood pressure and blood lipids