First, the misunderstanding of health care products
Many people, especially the elderly, hope to cure diseases through health care products, and many health care product salesmen also publicize them. In fact, this is a big misunderstanding! It is clearly stipulated in National Medical Products Administration that the instructions of health food should not involve the functions of disease prevention and treatment, and should be declared? This product can't replace medicine? . But some unscrupulous merchants deliberately cheat. Fool? Health care products can cure diseases, but the elderly often have poor discrimination and are often recruited. Health care products are not drugs, and the management is indeed not as strict as drugs, which gives many businesses the opportunity to exaggerate their health care efficacy. Not to mention those traditional Chinese medicine health care products whose health care function is seriously doubtful, but vitamins and minerals, which seem to have been proved effective by modern science, seem to have a poor prospect. In fact, as long as the elderly pay attention to a reasonable diet, they can get the vitamins and minerals they need.
Second, the misunderstanding of TCM health care
(1) blind tonic: health preservation does not mean various supplements of various nutrients. At present, many elderly people will choose to buy various precious Chinese medicines, such as velvet antler, cordyceps sinensis, American ginseng, Korean ginseng, etc., and soak in water or wine to supplement them. But perhaps these precious Chinese medicines are not what the elderly need. If you insist on adding these supplements to your body, it will be counterproductive.
(2) Chinese medicine has no side effects: many people think? Traditional Chinese medicine is pure natural, so most of it is harmless? . In this way, people often choose traditional Chinese medicine to take at will and try to see if it has a health-preserving effect. However, improper application of traditional Chinese medicine will not cause liver and kidney damage, but will cause damage and deviation of body function.
(3) Abuse of non-drug therapy: In recent years, many non-drug therapies have appeared in the market, such as cupping therapy, which is really a treasure of traditional medicine. It uses negative air pressure to cause local congestion and inflammation in the body, thus achieving the purpose of preventing and treating diseases. However, this is only for related indications. If the elderly have no related discomfort, there will be side effects.
(4) It is believed that dietotherapy is suitable for everyone: dietotherapy is the treasure of China's civilized food culture for thousands of years and plays an important role in our disease prevention and health care. However, many dietotherapy schemes are generally simply pieced together, which cannot be matched according to consumers' physique, resulting in the situation that the pattern is more important than the drug effect, resulting in the inability to make food supplements? Make up? Effect. Therefore, diet therapy should vary from person to person, and the elderly should be cautious.
Third, the misunderstanding of daily diet and exercise.
(1) Pigu health care: Pigu refers to a systematic health care method of losing weight, detoxifying and maintaining health by absorbing the essence of nature without eating whole grains (I personally think this sounds very unreliable). Traditional Chinese medicine believes that crossing the valley is an extreme method of health preservation, which is only suitable for a few people who practice well all the year round (the author also disagrees with this view). But ordinary people's fasting is easy to cause malnutrition, decreased resistance, easy to get sick, not to mention health, and even lose their lives. For those elderly people who suffer from chronic diseases and are weak, it is definitely not easy to work hard to keep fit.
(2) Get up in the morning and do strenuous exercise: For the elderly, when they just wake up in the morning, the various functions of the body are still in a stiff state, so it is best to give priority to moderate and mild aerobic exercise, and the amount of exercise should not be large, nor should it be too strenuous aerobic exercise. Otherwise, for the elderly with heart disease and high blood pressure, it is easy to induce diseases.
(3) Diet is too light: In our daily life, we can often see that some elderly people eat too light and even become vegetarians. A moderate vegetarian diet is ok, but such a long-term vegetarian diet is very harmful to the body. The elderly are prone to emaciation or puffiness, and symptoms such as general weakness and limb pain appear, which is actually malnutrition caused by long-term vegetarianism. The diet of the elderly should be a combination of meat and vegetables and balanced nutrition.
How should the elderly keep in good health?
(1) Mental health: The elderly should maintain a good attitude, promote mental health, and realize the coordinated development of body and mind.
(2) Life health: In daily life, we should pay attention to developing good sleep habits according to the biological clock law, regulating breath and nourishing qi, and adjusting the life law according to the changes of cold, hot, warm and cool in spring, summer, autumn and winter, so as to synchronize health with the weather and climate.
(3) Dietary health care: The elderly should reasonably adjust their diet rules, pay attention to dietary taboos, scientifically mix nutrients, eat regularly and quantitatively in daily life, strengthen food hygiene and safety, and maintain normal physiological functions of the body.
(4) Exercise for health: The elderly should continue moderate exercise and exercise, so as to achieve the effect of relaxing muscles and tendons and strengthening the body.
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