Autumn is undoubtedly a beautiful season with blue sky and golden wind, but the climate in autumn is in the transitional stage of "Yang disappears and Yin grows". At first, the autumn sun was like fire and the temperature was high. After the "White Dew", there is little rain, the weather is dry, the day is hot and the night is cold, and the climate is hot and cold. Some elderly people often have some corresponding symptoms because of their weakened self-regulation ability, which greatly reduces the quality of life of the elderly. Therefore, if the elderly want to stay healthy and delay aging in autumn, they should adapt their life and behavior in autumn to climate change and avoid the adverse effects of cold air in autumn on the human body. Here are some ways for the elderly to keep fit in autumn:
Old people should pay attention to interpersonal relationship and psychological communication, keep close relationship with their children, not only contact old friends, but also make new friends, often chat with friends, exchange thoughts and feelings, and be considerate in life and communicate ideologically. Participate in more group activities, learn from each other's strengths in interpersonal communication, and learn from life nutrition. For middle-aged and elderly people, autumn health care needs to cultivate an optimistic mood. It is advisable to meditate and gain countless fun, keep calm and collect your spirit. It is necessary to have the concept of "no heart and no disease", cultivate optimistic, cheerful, tolerant, open-minded and indifferent personality, collect spirit and maintain inner peace, which can slow down the influence of cold air in autumn on spirit and adapt to the characteristics of autumn tolerance.
The sense of security of the elderly, dialectical diet autumn is the turn of cold and summer, yin grows and yang disappears, so health preservation must follow the principle of "nourishing and harvesting", diet should be centered on moistening dryness and benefiting qi, with "nourishing yin and moistening lung" as the basic criterion, and should also nourish liver qi with "less pungent and increasing sour". You can eat more sesame seeds, walnuts, glutinous rice, honey and so on. Nourishing yin, moistening lung and nourishing blood. Eat less spicy food such as onion, ginger, garlic and pepper, and eat more sour food such as oranges, hawthorn and apples. But pay attention here, don't forget the principle of choosing diet according to your constitution. Although the above fruits can moisten dryness, they are not suitable for everyone. People with spleen deficiency and severe cough should avoid eating, and even healthy people should not be greedy for fruits and vegetables to prevent excessive damage to the spleen and stomach. For the elderly and infirm, you can choose to take some tonic or medicated porridge that nourishes yin and moistens lung, such as Radix Adenophorae, Lily, Tremella, japonica rice, sesame seeds, rock sugar, etc., and take it in the morning and evening to prevent autumn dryness from hurting people.
Cao Cao, who has been doing his old job and stretching himself during the Three Kingdoms period, wrote in his book "Although the tortoise lives long": "The old horse crouches in the tiger, aiming at a thousand miles, and the martyrs are brave in their twilight years." In other words, you have to fight for your ideal and career all your life. The meaning of life lies not only in living, but also in creating. According to their physical conditions and hobbies, the elderly can give full play to their advantages in knowledge, experience, skills, intelligence and personal expertise, find new fun in life, cultivate a hobby, forget troubles and cultivate sentiment. For example, practicing calligraphy, learning painting, planting flowers and plants, raising birds, reading newspapers and watching film and television dramas. Let you enjoy leisure, relax, and constantly activate brain cells, promote the metabolism of nerve cells, delay the decline of the brain and prolong life.
Old people practice, exercise and recuperate. Autumn is crisp and the climate is dry. The theory of four qi regulating spirit in Huangdi Neijing points out: "March autumn is called endurance, the weather is urgent and the atmosphere is cloudy." Lie down early and get up early, and have fun with chickens. " Therefore, the elderly should go to bed early and get up early in autumn. Although people are old but strong, they can choose suitable exercises, such as walking, jogging, boxing and doing exercises, with comfortable intensity. This is not only a good "air bath", but also a cold-resistant training, so that the body can gradually adapt to the cold stimulation and make full preparations for the coming winter. In addition, autumn is the golden season for tourism and mountaineering. Old people can go to the wild countryside together, climb high and enjoy the beautiful scenery of nature, such as blooming autumn flowers, and red leaves win the fire. If all the melancholy and melancholy disappear at once, a cheerful and harmonious mood will make you glow with youthful vitality.