Hot pot can also be eaten in a healthy way　

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The heavy snow in Shanghai today finally arrived, as people had been looking forward to it. Well, it wasn’t that heavy, but it still met people’s expectations. For someone from the north, it doesn’t cause too much of a reaction, but still, the cold air is unbearable; once you go outside, you freeze instantly. You don’t want to go to work or leave home – anything outside the bed seems like a distant place. It’s getting colder and colder. Those who are so cold that goosebumps cover their skin want nothing more at this moment than to stay at home and have a hot pot party with their family, to keep their whole body warm from head to toe and enjoy a warm winter together. 　　That’s right, hot pot and winter are a well-known perfect match! However, many people associate hot pot with issues such as internal heat and gout, so they deliberately keep their distance from it and avoid trying this delicious dish. How exactly should one eat hot pot to enjoy both taste and health? Hot pot is a perfect match for winter – it warms you up and is good for health. Avoid pairing hot pot with ice beer; some people like spicy hot pot as well as ice beer, thinking that the ice beer can instantly quench the spiciness on their tongues. However, when heat and cold mix together and enter the digestive tract, it becomes too much for the stomach and intestines to handle, leading to illness. To reduce heat and greasiness, it is healthier to drink some hot water, tea, or soy milk. 　　The hot pot broth is not wasted even if it’s poured out. The flavors of various ingredients in the hot pot dissolve into the broth, making it extremely delicious; as a result, food lovers want to have a few bowls of this hot broth alongside their dishes and meat. However, it takes a long time to heat up the hot pot broth, and its levels of nitrites and purines are quite high. People with a history of gout, arthritis, or high blood pressure will suffer greatly if they drink this broth; those without such conditions had better limit themselves to drinking only the first batch of broth. 　　I won’t eat any meat that isn’t fully cooked. Snowflake beef, lamb, dog meat, chicken, rabbit meat – any kind of animal meat you can think of can be put into the hot pot to be cooked. Although the hot hot pot is very hot, the cooking time is not long enough, so the meat does not cook easily. If you insist on eating this undercooked meat, parasites will enter your body unchecked – what a terrifying thing that is! 　　When there are many people, it’s a good idea to have several pairs of serving chopsticks. Hot pot is suitable for family gatherings, as well as for get-togethers with friends and team-building activities; when there are many guests, make sure to have enough serving chopsticks. Do you know that some diseases are transmitted through mouth-to-mouth contact, and hot pot broth is the medium for this transmission? Furthermore, the ingredients are raw and cold; using eating chopsticks to pick up such raw ingredients can easily introduce germs into the mouth, which is unhygienic. 　　3 vegetables to 1 piece of meat is the ideal ratio. When choosing ingredients for hot pot, remember to have plenty of vegetables; the ideal ratio between vegetables and meat is 3:1. When eating oily hot pots such as spicy hot pots, it is best to choose lamb, beef, or fish with low fat content, and pair them with green and yellow vegetables, mushrooms, and soy products. 　　The choice of hot pot broth depends on your constitution: clear broth, spicy broth, pork rib broth, or mushroom broth – which one do you prefer? In fact, the choice of hot pot broth should be determined by your constitution. If you tend to get hot easily, then clear soup broth, rib broth, and mushroom broth are the best choices for you ； If your hands and feet tend to be cold and you have a cold constitution, spicy broth and nourishing broth can meet your need for warmth.