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Can middle-aged and elderly people drink porridge to live longer?
1 Middle-aged and elderly people must drink porridge in autumn.

When many people hear about porridge, they think it's just for nourishing the stomach. Autumn has a dry climate, which is the most suitable season to drink porridge. Drinking porridge at this time can not only prolong life, but also better moisturize the skin and relieve autumn dryness.

"Corn is the first golden staple food", which contains "all-round nutrition" suitable for people of all ages to eat.

After nutritional analysis of several common staple foods, it is found that corn has the highest nutritional value and health care function:

The vitamin content in corn is very high, which is 5- 10 times that of rice and wheat. At the same time, corn also contains nutrients such as riboflavin and vitamins, which can effectively prevent heart disease and cancer. Eating beginning of autumn can not only get rid of autumn dryness, but also help to delay aging.

Pumpkin porridge, blood porridge, after a summer of sunshine and growth, pumpkin is now the best period of nutrition. Pumpkin porridge is warm and has the effects of tonifying the middle warmer, clearing away heat and detoxifying.

Seven-dish porridge is a blessing porridge. Putting spinach, celery, coriander, mustard, leek, onion and garlic together to cook porridge can bring a year's blessing. Folks say: celery stands for hard work, garlic stands for counting money, onion stands for cleverness, leek stands for eternity, coriander stands for fate, and mustard stands for making a fortune in the new year.

Nutritionists have found that the nutritional effect of seemingly ordinary seven-dish porridge should not be underestimated. Seven-dish porridge is rich in vitamins and trace elements, which has the effect of invigorating stomach and promoting digestion;

Spinach contains iron, celery can clear away heat and reduce blood fat, coriander can sweat, mustard can resolve phlegm, leek can warm kidney and help yang, onion can strengthen stomach and sterilize, and garlic can also promote gastric juice secretion.

Millet porridge is better than millet porridge cooked in ginseng chicken soup, and it is known as "substitute ginseng chicken soup". Millet not only has the function of nourishing the stomach, but also helps to sleep and soothe the nerves, which is very effective in relieving stress and tension. So: if you can't sleep at night, it's better to drink millet porridge. It can be taken after illness, postpartum and weak constitution, and can nourish yin and replenish blood. You can take it all year round.

Millet is rich in various nutrients and trace elements, which has a good blood-enriching effect. In addition, because millet is not refined like rice, it retains most of the nutrients and its nutritional value is much higher than that of rice.

Jujube glutinous rice porridge hypertension must eat red dates and glutinous rice together, and add appropriate amount of sugar, which has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, invigorating qi and blood, inducing diuresis to stop diarrhea, and promoting fluid production to quench thirst. It is more suitable for people with anorexia, chronic enteritis and hypertension.

It is not difficult to live a long life by making good use of two porridge and one meal. The most important part of "two porridge and one meal" is to drink porridge in the morning and evening. A large number of survey data show that 74% of centenarians living in Rugao and Bama drink porridge every morning and evening.

Morning is the time when the spleen and stomach are on duty. At this time, drink porridge to nourish the stomach;

At night (17- 19), the kidney meridian is in season. Drinking porridge at this time will get twice the result with half the effort.

In addition, the problem of kidney essence deficiency also exists in the elderly to varying degrees. Drinking porridge at night can play a role in tonifying kidney and essence.

Therefore:

Middle-aged and elderly people can drink some miscellaneous grains porridge in the morning, which can refresh themselves and nourish their qi; To nourish the stomach, yam porridge is the best. If you want to supplement calcium, you can add some milk (soybean milk).

Drinking sweet porridge at night can soothe the nerves, such as lily porridge; Black bean porridge has the best effect of tonifying kidney.

Porridge not only nourishes the stomach, but also is the key to prolonging life. The five bowls of porridge ranked above are distributed to friends!