Eating more of these vegetables is good for preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

2018 health diet hit

As the Spring Festival is approaching, every New year is a challenge to diet, especially to remind friends who have taboos to pay extra attention to put an end to tobacco and alcohol, and pay attention to a healthy diet. The editor sorted out 12 kinds of preserved vegetables and recommended them to middle-aged and elderly friends.

Lentinus edodes and Chinese cabbage

1. Pakchoi: keep blood vessels elastic

Pakchoi contains a lot of crude fiber, which combines with fat and cholesterol in the intestine to reduce the absorption of these substances, which can prevent the formation of cholesterol in the blood, so as to reduce the formation of atherosclerosis and maintain vascular elasticity.

And rich in calcium, magnesium and other minerals, to help reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease has a significant role.

Shrimp cauliflower

2. Cauliflower: vascular cleaning agent

Traditional Chinese medicine has always been said that "white into the lungs", white cauliflower is undoubtedly a timely health vegetable, not only can moisten the lungs, but also a very good vascular cleanser.

Minced garlic and kale

3. Kale: soften blood vessels

Kale is rich in dietary fiber and minerals, which can help lower cholesterol, soften blood vessels and prevent heart disease.

West blue flower

4. Broccoli: blood vessel cleaning agent

Broccoli is one of the foods with the most flavonoids. In addition to preventing infection, flavonoids are also the best vascular cleanser, which can prevent cholesterol oxidation and coagulation and prevent platelet clotting, thereby reducing the risk of heart disease and stroke.

Scrambled egg with tomato

5. Tomatoes: antioxidation

Tomatoes not only contain much more vitamins than apples and pears, but also improve the antioxidant capacity of the body, eliminate free radicals and other garbage in the body, protect vascular elasticity and prevent thrombosis.

Carrot porridge

6. Carrots: excretion of toxins

Carrot is an effective mercury excretion food, which contains a large amount of pectin can combine with mercury, effectively reduce the concentration of mercury ions in the blood, promote blood circulation and accelerate the excretion of toxins.

Winter melon soup

7. Wax gourd: prevention of arteriosclerosis

Wax gourd has the effect of diuresis and detumescence, clearing heat, relieving thirst and detoxification. Often eat wax gourd, can reduce the fat content in the body, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension also has a good effect.

Fried meat with onions 8. Onions: anti-arteriosclerosis

Onions contain a kind of prostaglandin A that can dilate blood vessels, reduce blood viscosity and reduce vascular pressure. At the same time, onions can also enhance the activity of fibrinolysis and reduce blood lipids, blood sugar and anti-arteriosclerosis.

Garlic with vinegar 9. Garlic: prevent thrombosis

Allicin in garlic weakens the activity of enzymes that synthesize cholesterol in the liver, thereby lowering cholesterol levels in the body and keeping the blood healthy.

In addition, garlic contains a sulfide called allitridin, which reduces cholesterol in the blood and prevents thrombosis.

Black fungus 10, Auricularia auricula: excretion of toxic substances

Modern medical research has found that a kind of plant gum contained in Auricularia auricula has a strong adsorption power, which can concentrate the impurities left in the digestive system of the human body, and then discharge them out of the body, thus playing the role of detoxification and clearing the intestines and stomach.

Kelp 11. Kelp: prevent thrombosis

Kelp is rich in fucoidan and laminin, which all have heparin-like activity, which can not only prevent thrombosis, but also reduce cholesterol and inhibit atherosclerosis.

Soaked peanuts in vinegar 12, peanuts: clean the blood vessel wall

The last one introduced is peanut, which is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, which can clear the walls of blood vessels, help soften blood vessels, control blood pressure and blood lipids.