1, food containing calcium
After entering the old age, most elderly people will have different degrees of osteoporosis, and women are more than men, which is prone to osteoporosis and fractures. It is not difficult to hear the information that old people will break after wrestling. Therefore, the elderly should eat more foods with high calcium content, such as beans, shrimp skin, cheese, sesame, kelp, oats and other foods. If you eat too salty or too much meat, it will cause too much phosphorus and affect the absorption of calcium. In addition to dietary calcium supplementation, the elderly should also do exercise and bask in the sun, which can also promote the absorption of calcium.
Remember, the elderly can't just eat calcium tablets, so the effect of calcium supplementation is not good. You can take vitamin D together to promote the absorption of calcium.
2. Foods containing folic acid
Folic acid can reduce diseases such as heart disease, cancer and stroke. If folic acid is lacking in the body, it is easy to cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and thrombosis. Old people are prone to lack folic acid, so they can often eat foods with high folic acid content, such as tomatoes, broccoli, spinach, bananas, oranges, grapefruit and so on.
3. Foods with fillings
Why do you say that eating foods with fillings can promote health and strengthen nutrition? This is because all kinds of foods with fillings include mutton, pork, beef, fish, chicken, eggs, dried rice, fungus, tofu, leek, celery, zucchini, ginger, onion and garlic, soy sauce and so on. This variety of food is very nutritious. For the elderly, it can provide reasonable nutritional needs, help the elderly to promote digestion and enhance appetite.
Step 4 drink more vinegar
Vinegar is an indispensable condiment in life. Drinking vinegar has many benefits for the elderly. For example, it can stimulate appetite and promote digestion, prevent diarrhea caused by unclean food, help eliminate fatigue, lower blood pressure and blood lipid, and prevent and treat osteoporosis.
5. Eat more ginger in winter.
For the elderly, eating more ginger in winter is very effective for nourishing the body. The effects of eating ginger in winter are: keeping out cold, promoting blood circulation, helping digestion, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, abdominal pain, strengthening bones and muscles, and detoxifying. Or eat ginger, or use ginger to make Tonga brown sugar to drink, or make soup to use in dishes. But if you eat ginger, you should pay attention to replacing the old ginger with tender ginger. Eating raw is not only bad, but also may induce kidney inflammation. If you want to know more about health care for the elderly, you can go to Jiahui Jinling School to study.