Better quality: protein plays an important role in maintaining the normal metabolism of the elderly and enhancing the body's resistance. The average elderly people need 1g protein per kilogram of body weight, which should mainly come from high-quality protein sources such as fish, poultry, eggs, milk and soybeans.
Eat more vegetables: Eating more vegetables is beneficial to cardiovascular protection and cancer prevention. Old people should eat no less than 250 grams of vegetables every day.
Food should be light: the taste function of the elderly declines and they often eat tasteless food. They always like to eat greasy food to increase their appetite, which inadvertently increases their salt intake. Eating too much salt will increase the burden on the kidneys, which may reduce the barrier effect of oral mucosa and increase the chances of survival and spread of cold virus in the upper respiratory tract. Therefore, the daily salt intake of the elderly should be controlled at about 5 grams, and at the same time, salty foods such as bacon should be eaten less.
The variety is a bit mixed: both meat and vegetables are given consideration, and the thickness is matched. The more varieties, the better. The daily staple food (excluding seasoning) shall not be less than 10 samples.
Seasoning food: "Seasoning" here does not mean using more seasonings such as salt and monosodium glutamate, but adding more seasonings such as onion and ginger to dishes. People's five senses are interlinked, and sense of smell can be used to make up for the lack of taste. Smelling delicious food will definitely make the old man have an appetite.
Hot food: raw and cold food is cold. Eating too much will affect the digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach, and even cause damage. Therefore, the elderly should try to avoid cold food, especially in severe winter.
Rice should be thin: cooking rice into porridge is not only palatable and easy to digest, but also has the effects of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness, which is conducive to prolonging life. But the old man can't eat porridge because of this.
Chew slowly: Chewing slowly can easily lead to satiety, prevent overeating and make food easier to digest.
Breakfast is better: breakfast should account for 30%-40% of the total calories in the whole day, with high quality and nutritional value, but it is not suitable to eat greasy, fried, dry and irritating food.
Dinner earlier: "Stomach disharmony, restless night", eating dinner too late, not only affects sleep, accumulates calories, but also easily causes urinary calculi. The peak of calcium excretion is 4-5 hours after eating. If you eat dinner too late, or often eat midnight snack, then the elderly may have gone to bed when the peak of calcium excretion comes. The best time for the elderly to eat should be six or seven in the afternoon, and they should not eat or eat less supper.
Smooth microcirculation: As the saying goes: "If the microcirculation is good, there will be no stroke; Good microcirculation and less myocardial infarction; The microcirculation is unobstructed and the whole body is healthy. "Microcirculation is the source of almost all diseases, and a sound microcirculation function is the primary prerequisite to ensure the normal function of important organs in the body. Weiluokang earthworm protein can improve microcirculation, dissolve thrombus and reduce blood viscosity. It has a good conditioning effect on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.