Diet, nutrition and health education program for the elderly

On the one hand, the physiology of the elderly is in a negative nitrogen balance, which is also the reason why the human body synthesizes protein more than the body consumes protein. Therefore, we should pay attention to protein's intake, which should not be too high or too low. They need more vitamins and minerals. On the other hand, because the basal metabolism slows down, the calorie consumption of the elderly is reduced, and the calorie intake is reduced by about 20% compared with that of the young. In other words, they need a diet with high nutritional density and controllable energy, and try to treat foods with high energy and low nutritional density, such as all kinds of deep-processed snacks and snacks.

Dietary essentials for the elderly:

1, appropriately reduce the staple food and combine the thickness. Thrifty old people are used to eating more and less vegetables, but in order to control their weight, they should reduce staple food, increase vegetables, beans and products, and appropriately increase lean meat and fish of animals, so that nutrition will be more balanced. The choice of staple food should not be thought of as eating white rice and steamed bread, rather than miscellaneous grains and potatoes.

2. Appropriately increase the protein of high-quality protein to make up for the "negative nitrogen balance" loss of the elderly. The sources of high-quality protein are milk, bean products, animal lean meat, eggs and so on. These foods are often eaten. If you feel uncomfortable after drinking milk, you can drink yogurt instead, which is not only beneficial to intestinal health, but also can supplement rich calcium.