As the saying goes, "if you eat too much, you will get sick, but if you eat carefully, you will avoid disaster." . It means that with the increase of age, the spleen and stomach will become weak and the digestive function will be weakened.
If you eat too much, your stomach will become full and easy to accumulate stagnation. Over time, it will turn into heat, which will inevitably consume body fluid and hurt yang.
It is suggested that middle-aged and elderly people must master the meal time and eat when they are slightly hungry. It is best to choose a fixed time for each meal. In addition, you should not eat too fast, chew slowly, and eat too fast, which is easy to cause diseases.
Second, be careful with drugs.
Old people should pay attention to medication. With the increase of age, the detoxification function of the liver and kidney of the elderly is relatively weak. If it is not because of physical illness, you need to take medicine as little as possible, and don't take multiple drugs together.
For the elderly, try not to abuse antibiotics as soon as you catch a cold, and don't go to the hospital for intravenous drip, because taking too many drugs will produce drug resistance.
There are still many people who think that Chinese medicine has little side effects on the body, but it is not. Everyone knows that it is a three-point poison. Therefore, western medicine and Chinese medicine should not be used as much as possible.
In addition, you should pay attention to the amount of complementary food. Eating too much tonic sometimes not only fails to play a health care role, but also is not conducive to health. For example, if you eat too much pilose antler, ginseng and cordyceps sinensis, you will have symptoms such as nosebleeds and dry mouth.
Third, caution and excitement.
There are many elderly people who are too old to adjust their mentality well and often get angry easily.
You know, being too excited has always been the natural enemy of the health of the elderly. Especially those with heart disease and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, it is necessary to control their emotions.
Because excessive excitement will raise blood pressure, speed up the heartbeat, and make the hardened cardiovascular and cerebrovascular bleeding after division, thus inducing myocardial infarction, stroke and other diseases.
How do the elderly maintain their health? For the elderly, it is very important to keep a good attitude, and at the same time, it is necessary to keep healthy.
In our daily life, we should adjust our mentality and mood every day, take more outdoor walks, raise fish and have fun, so as to improve the happiness index in our later years.