Three Do’s and Six Don’ts in the Elderly’s Diet

　　The quality of dietary nutrition directly affects elderly body healthy , disease resistance and longevity. Therefore, the elderly must adjust their diet according to their own health status to prevent overnutrition or undernutrition. This is good for health, prevention and treatment disease , delaying aging is of great significance.

　　There are three things to eat:

　　Eat slowly - Elderly people should eat slowly and slowly, chewing carefully and slowly. This will facilitate the secretion of various digestive juices, better digest and absorb food, and avoid eating too fast.

　　Eating with pleasure - a quiet and happy mood is conducive to digestion and increases appetite. On the contrary, it will affect appetite and hinder digestive function. It’s easy to get angry while eating Stomach problems , very harmful to your health!

　　Eating should be done with care - when eating, you should put aside all kinds of trivial matters, focus on the food, and enjoy the pleasure and satisfaction brought by the food. This will not only help you taste the taste of the food, but also help digestion and absorption.

　　There are six food taboos:

　　Avoid raw and cold foods - eat less or no cold drinks or foods, such as ice cream, frozen mung bean soup, etc.

　　Avoid spicy food - eat less or no onions, ginger, peppers, peppercorns, leeks, etc. At the same time, be careful to stay away from tobacco and alcohol.

　　Avoid greasy food - eat less meat, fat, fried foods, dairy products (milk, pastry, cheese), etc.

　　Avoid foods that can cause the recurrence of old diseases and the aggravation of new diseases, such as fishy, ​​muttony, spicy, etc. There are also some special foods such as buckwheat, bean sprouts, chicken heads, goose meat, duck heads, coriander, etc.

　　Avoid sticky and slippery food - eat less sticky rice, barley and other sticky noodles.

　　Avoid fishy mutton - eat less seafood, mutton, dog meat, etc. These foods are warm in nature and can easily produce heat. Therefore, those with heat constitution, such as those who are prone to getting angry, dry mouth, and dry stools, should eat less, otherwise the symptoms will be aggravated.