Life span is related to many factors. Some doctors, psychologists and nutritionists have formulated the following ten guidelines to prolong life: (1) Don't eat too much: this can reduce the burden on cells, keep their vitality, quickly renew cells and enhance the body's immunity to diseases. If you are not full, you should pay more attention to a balanced diet. (2) Age should be considered when making recipes: people of different ages have different requirements for nutrition. For example, a 30-year-old woman often eats animal livers and nuts, so her wrinkles appear later than her peers. Carotene is good for people over 40. Pay attention to calcium and magnesium after 60 years old. Calcium can prevent osteoporosis, and magnesium can protect the heart. Men over 40 years old especially need selenium, which helps to relieve physical tension. Foods rich in selenium include cheese and animal kidneys. At the age of sixty, we should eat more fish to protect the cardiovascular system. (3) find a job that suits you; According to research, work can make people young, and people who don't work look about 5 years older than their peers. Music, philosophy and painting can make people "radiant". (4) Find yourself a good life partner: Love and gentleness are good medicines for anti-aging. Research shows that if you can immerse yourself in love twice a week, you will look more than ten years younger. Because when you indulge in love, your body will secrete something called happiness hormone, which can strengthen your immune system. (5) Look at everything from one's own point of view: Compared with people who go with the flow passively, people who have their own points of view and can persist live consciously and actively, with less depression and frustration. (6) Exercise: Even if you only exercise for 8 minutes every day, you can prolong your life. Growth hormone can be released during exercise. However, the secretion of this hormone is usually greatly reduced when people are in their thirties. Therefore, it is especially necessary to pay attention to exercise. (7) The temperature in the bedroom should be slightly lower: Studies have proved that if you sleep in the room of 17℃ ~ 18℃ for many years, you can prolong your life. Because the metabolism of the human body and the appearance of senile plaques depend on the temperature of the surrounding environment. (8) Emancipate yourself occasionally: Don't always follow the "rules and regulations" to limit yourself, and occasionally you can make a breakthrough. For example, let yourself eat some delicious food that you usually dare not eat. (9) Don't suppress your anger forever: It is harmful to suppress your negative emotions, and never vent your depression, which is easy to make people sick and even cause cancer. According to the survey, 64% of cancer patients often suppress their anger. So it is necessary to tell others about your sadness, or simply argue with those who disagree with you. (10) Exercise the brain: guessing riddles frequently, playing brain games with friends and forcing the brain to work can delay the decline of the brain's thinking ability. In a word, using the brain frequently is the best way to exercise the brain, and normal brain function is beneficial to physical and mental health. Diet and Longevity As far as diet is concerned, I have been eating porridge, three meals a day, and I enjoy it every month and year. Because with the growth of age, physiological function declines, eating some porridge soup and the like not only conforms to the appetite of the elderly, but also is easy to digest and absorb. Can be said to be "more advantages than disadvantages"! As for what kind of porridge to eat, we should choose raw materials with both nutrition and health care value, and choose seasonal porridge with the change of seasons. This will not only give you a comfortable feeling of not turning your stomach, but also absorb various nutrients in many ways to meet the needs of your body. Four seasons and diet, for example, I eat porridge in autumn. Sese Shi, commonly known as the head of a chicken or the head of a chicken's rice, is a small round leaf plant growing in lakes and ponds, and its seeds have great medicinal value, which is the same as the head of a chicken porridge in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica. Practice: cook the chicken's head rice and shell it, and take its kernel and cook it with rice or glutinous rice. If millet is mixed, porridge will be more sticky, thicker and more fragrant, which is really delicious. Its function is stronger than kidney and body, and it is more conducive to hearing and vision. It also plays a certain role in preventing brain cells from declining and enhancing memory. Eat corn flour (dregs) in winter, sweet potato porridge. Corn and sweet potato are both natural foods, which can be eaten or used medicinally. The former is rich in protein, fat, starch, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B 1, B2 and carotene. The latter contains more vitamin C than pears, apples and grapes. Contains mucin, which can prevent cholesterol from depositing on blood vessel wall, prevent arteriosclerosis and maintain blood vessel elasticity; It can also prevent the atrophy of connective tissue of liver and kidney and prevent the occurrence of collagen disease. It can also prevent constipation and maintain good intelligence. Sweet potato also contains a special chemical called dehydroepiandrosterone, which can prevent colon cancer and breast cancer. In short, eating porridge mixed with the two is of great benefit to nourishing the body and prolonging life. Practice: First, cut the washed and peeled sweet potato into pieces the size of dates and chestnuts, boil it with boiling water until it is 70% or 80% mature, then put the mashed corn flour into a pot and cook it while stirring it until the sweet potato and corn flour are as thick as paint, which can be said to be delicious. In spring, I eat carrot porridge. Practice: First, the carrots are washed and cut into filaments, blanched in boiling water, fried with peanut oil, chopped green onion, Jiang Mo, pepper and other seasonings (wok), added with appropriate amount of water, and then the steamed rice is stewed in advance. After cooking, sprinkle some coriander and sesame oil, and an attractive fragrance suddenly climbs into the nostrils, which is very attractive. Carrot porridge, rich in carotene, middle-aged and elderly people, and people with loss of appetite or indigestion, dry skin, night blindness, hypertension, etc., can often eat this porridge. In summer, I eat mung bean porridge. I choose some mung bean porridge that can relieve thirst, edema and detoxification. Sorghum rice and bean porridge are cooked like mud. Or use lotus leaf fried soup and rice to cook lotus leaf porridge. Especially when these cooked, thick and sticky porridge is dried to a little residual heat (not hot) or simply cooled to a slight trembling feeling, adding a little sugar will be sweeter and more refreshing! Eating and digesting other things such as millet and rice, corn residue and rice porridge, plus dried fruits such as jujube, walnut kernel, melon seeds, raisins and chestnuts, sesame seeds and peanuts also appear alternately on the dining table. In this way, I retired from Tangshan Railway Institute for forty years without interruption. But remember the food intake, overeating will affect the digestion of the stomach, cause fullness and discomfort, and lead to indigestion. In severe cases, it can also cause acute gastroenteritis, acute gastric dilatation, acute pancreatitis and even sudden death, which should be taken as a warning. Sea cucumber-Sea cucumber has the functions of relieving fatigue, improving immunity and enhancing disease resistance. Stichopus japonicus is rich in more than 50 kinds of natural and precious active substances, such as protein, minerals and vitamins. Among them, acidic mucopolysaccharide and chondroitin can obviously reduce the contents of lipofuscin and skin proline in heart tissue and play a role in delaying aging. The 18 amino acid contained in sea cucumber can enhance the metabolic function of tissues and enhance the cell vitality of the body, which is suitable for growing teenagers. Sea cucumber can adjust the water balance of human body and is suitable for women with swollen legs and feet during pregnancy. Sea cucumber can eliminate fatigue, improve human immunity and enhance human resistance to diseases, so it is very suitable for middle-aged men and women who are often in a state of fatigue, the elderly and children who are prone to colds and weak constitution. Edit this paragraph of health care tips. Chinese and western nutrition "health and early examination will last a lifetime, and illness can go up in the early stage. When a time bomb breaks out, economic losses are hard to protect." A strong life is wealth, carefree, contented and happy, making contributions to children and grandchildren and making the whole family happy and comfortable. Lifelong health care is the most secure, full of energy and physical strength, carefree and happy. "This is the health experience of an 82-year-old man. The old man's name is Li Huaipu, from Xiying Village, Shijiazhuang City. He has never been ill and has taken medicine. He is in good health. 65438+February 10, deaf and blind, he rode 16 km to the editorial department of this newspaper and told reporters about his health care experience and the secret of longevity. Usually, young people are breathless when they go to the editorial office on the fifth floor, while old people like Li Huaipu go upstairs calmly. This made the reporter really witness his mantra: "Health is wealth! "The human body needs a variety of nutrients, such as vitamins, protein, fat, potassium, iron, calcium, zinc, selenium, phosphorus, manganese, iodine, sodium and amino acids. Nutrition is the material basis of human health and longevity. The quality and quantity of nutrition directly affect human health, disease resistance and life span. Therefore, it is impossible for people to eat enough, and the nutrients needed by various viscera are different. The human body's demand for dietary nutrition is not only comprehensive, but also to maintain a balanced diet. Three essentials The following three essentials can help the elderly live longer. First, be psychologically balanced, cheerful and carefree. Second, we should exercise properly. Exercise is a good medicine for fitness. Aerobic exercise is now advocated. 9 am and half an hour after dinner are good opportunities for exercise and fitness. The third is diet. Let's start with drinking water. Drink plenty of water every day, especially when you get up early in the morning, and drink a glass of water to replenish the water in the visceral blood. It is best to drink green tea. Tea polyphenols in green tea can soften blood vessels, increase the toughness of blood vessels, increase the vitality of cells in the blood and make the blood flow smooth. It is a health care drug to prevent the formation of hematologic cancer. Adding Lycium barbarum and chrysanthemum to tea has the effects of tonifying kidney, improving eyesight and diminishing inflammation. Diet nutrition is mainly light, three meals should be diversified, with less oil and less salt. There is also a saying that onion, garlic and ginger soup do not leave the mouth, and some diseases bypass; Eat radish in winter and soup in summer, don't ask a doctor for a prescription; A lot of food is imported, and doctors turn to hoes; Eating more vegetables and drinking more green tea made the doctor climb all over the floor. This is a diet secret handed down from the ancients and a valuable health care experience. For reference only.