Until one day, I got to see a boutique class "how to live through 100 years of age in good health", so immediately paid a subscription, and then listened to the whole content in one breath. I found it very helpful and instructive for my parents' health. Therefore, on the way out with my parents, I played the audio content of the boutique class in the car. I purposely drove the car very slowly, and my parents listened very attentively, nodding their heads from time to time at the contents. I streamlined and reorganized the essence of the content, expecting to help my parents establish a new cognition, restore the meaning and vision of life, and relieve the worries and anxieties in their hearts. This is one of the most meaningful things I have done this New Year.
There is a best-selling book in Japan called "55 Things You Need to Do Before Your Parents Leave". The book did a calculation, if your parents are 60 years old now, assuming they live to be 80 years old, the time you can spend with them from now on, adds up to a total of **** only 55 days. During these 55 days, we should all ask ourselves, what should we do for mom and dad? (The following song, please make up your own brain Music humming)
Find some spare time Find some time
Lead the children to come home often
Bring a smile Bring a wish
Accompany the loved ones to come home often
Mom prepared some nagging
Dad opened a good meal
Life's troubles talk to mom.
Talk to your dad about your work
Come home often, come home to visit
Even if it's to brush your mom's chopsticks and wash the dishes
The old man doesn't expect his children to do much for the family
It's not an easy life, but just want to have a reunion
Come home often, come home to visit
Even if it's to give your dad a massage on your back and shoulders
As we age, our parents may notice some changes in their bodies. For example, physical strength is not good, memory also declined, eyes to see things began to flower, skin is not as elastic as before, hair began to fall easily, gums began to shrink ...... Many of these are actually normal aging phenomena , unless they appear too early or the symptoms are too severe, the vast majority of which are nothing to worry about. What we should pursue is to comply with this law, as far as possible to slow down the aging, and strive for a long and healthy life.
What determines longevity? Is it genes, or the environment, or lifestyle habits that determine it? One answer from modern research is:
1. Be active every day .
This activity refers to things that we can naturally engage in every day in the course of our lives, without the need for specialized facilities and venues. For example, when you can usually walk or ride a bike, don't take a car. When you can take the stairs, don't take the elevator. Usually go out to buy groceries, cook and fry your own food, wash the dishes after meals, take a walk, these are all activities. The two exercises recommended in this article, yoga and tai chi, not only improve joint flexibility and balance, but also increase muscle strength, and the meditative state that you enter during exercise can help you think more clearly. High fives and foot stomps are also good exercises. If you can practice every day, you can definitely prolong your life.
2. Eat well.What are some of the dangers of eating too much?
- Excess nutrients accumulate in the body and make it prone to chronic diseases. For example, diabetes is too much sugar, high blood pressure is too much fat, high blood pressure is too much salt, gout is too much purine, so these diseases are related to our eating too much. Diet needs attention, is to eat less sugar and salt, taste not too sweet or too salty.
-The body produces a lot of oxygen free radicals in order to digest too much food. The human body is like a boiler and the food we eat is like coal. We have to consume the heat produced by the food to maintain life, but the process of burning coal produces smoke, and this smoke pollutes the environment. So the smoke that the human body produces when it burns this food is this oxygen free radical, which is not good for the body. Oxygen free radicals will attack human cells to produce lesions and even cancer. So, you see in our current hospital, there is no such thing as a starving person, only people who eat too much and end up getting sick and dying
There is an old saying in China that says, "If you want your body to be safe, you need to have three points of hunger and cold". This is also mentioned in the "low-temperature health", "less wear a piece of clothing, less eat a mouthful of food," the purpose is to reduce the cellular metabolic rate, which is conducive to prolonging the life of cells to achieve the purpose of prolonging life.
In addition to dietary moderation, but also pay attention to the type of food. Eating vegetables and beans as the main focus, rather than the main food.
First of all, because the nutrition of vegetables and beans is very rich, and the calories are very low, it is not easy to grow meat, and contains very much fiber, not easy to be hungry after eating. The diet is based on dark green vegetables and beans. For example, our common spinach, arugula, bok choy, cauliflower, purple kale, soybeans, red beans, chickpeas, green beans.
Secondly, another important reason to eat more dark green vegetables is that it is rich in antioxidants like Vitamin C and Vitamin E. These antioxidants are the ones that fight against these vitamins. And these antioxidants are what fight these oxygen free radicals, so when you eat these dark green vegetables, it works to protect your blood vessels and cells. Natural antioxidant family members: (1) Vitamin C and Vitamin E, mainly from: citrus, fruit juices, tomatoes, broccoli, spinach and nuts. Especially almonds and soybeans. (2) The trace element selenium, derived from animal offal, oysters, tea, etc.. (3) Flavonoids and tea polyphenols. They have a unique chemical structure and properties, can effectively disarm free radicals and protect immune cells from damage. Flavonoids are mostly found in vegetables and fruits. Such as citrus, apricots, cherries, grapes, green chili peppers, cauliflower, onions, tomatoes and so on. Buckwheat is also rich in flavonoids. Green tea is rich in both flavonoids and tea polyphenols. Therefore, usually eat more vegetables and fruits, drink more green tea. Drinking green tea can be through its antioxidant effect, regulating gene expression, thereby inhibiting cardiomyocyte apoptosis, play a protective role on the heart. Water is the best health care products, a cup of water or salt water early in the morning every day, helps gastrointestinal metabolism.
Finally, the World Health Organization (WHO) put forward the "Ten Laws of Food Safety" to ensure good health has a strong guiding role.
(1) Once the food is cooked, it should be eaten immediately
(2) Poultry and meat must be cooked before consumption
(3) Choose food that has been processed
(4) If you need to store the food for 4 to 5 hours, it should be kept at a high temperature (>60 degrees) or a low temperature (about 10 degrees)
(5) Foods that have been stored must be reheated before consumption
(5) Foods that have been stored must be reheated before consumption
. (6) Don't let uncooked food come into contact with cooked food
(7) Keep the kitchen clean
(8) Wash your hands before handling food
(9) Don't let insects or rats or rabbits come into contact with the food
(10) Drinking water and water used for food preparation should be clean
These are some of the most basic rules of food preparation. p>
These most basic food safety requirements, carefully check, in fact, some really do not do. Especially the elderly because of the value of food, can not bear to throw away has been placed for a long time or even the expiration date of the food followed by the re-education of a large number of people. As a child, we should always pay attention to and remind our parents of this.
3.
First, think about whether there is something in your life that you feel is particularly important, something you are looking forward to, and then write it down and look at it every day. This way, you won't feel that your life is aimless and that you don't have a direction after retirement.
Second, think about whether you have any special hobbies or favorite things that you haven't had time to do for a long time. You can try to spend more time on these things and take it up another notch. For example, like to raise some flowers and plants, or play an erhu and so on.
Third, try to learn a new thing, such as learning to square dance, learn new skills, give yourself a little challenge.
4. Life is not lonely.
A study done by Brigham Young University found that loneliness is as harmful as alcoholism or smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Loneliness increases the level of cortisol in the human body, cortisol is a stress hormone in the body, which controls human emotions, health, immune cells and inflammatory response, cortisol, if chronically high, the immune system will be weakened, and people are more prone to disease. How do you live life without being alone?
First, engage in active entertainment, not passive entertainment. What is passive entertainment? Passive entertainment is the passive acceptance of information, such as watching TV, sitting there and doing nothing, just passive acceptance of information.
The second suggestion is to get out of the room, go outside more to communicate and exchange with others, keep a curious mind, learn more and ask more questions.
The third suggestion is to get a pet, whether it's a cat or a dog or a bird, if your parents don't particularly hate animals. With a pet by your side, you will have to feed it and call it every day, and you can get rid of some of the loneliness.
The most important thing is still like the song at the beginning, if you can't be with your parents for a long time, you should at least go home often, even if you brush the chopsticks and wash the dishes for your mom, or even if you give your dad a whack on the back and a rub on the shoulders. Finally, I wish all the parents in the world a long and healthy life and a peaceful old age.
Some of the content in the article is quoted from
1. "How to Live a Healthy Life Past 100 Years" - Zhang Yusheng
2. "12 Keys to a Long and Healthy Life" - Zhang Hude