As the saying goes, old people live longer if they eat porridge. When people get old, their physiological functions are aging, the required calories are reduced, and their digestive function is reduced. Generally speaking, it is more appropriate to eat less but fine, light and cooked. If you eat a thick cream flavor, it will often increase the burden on the spleen and stomach, leading to fat accumulation, arteriosclerosis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and ultimately lead to aging. Just as Mo Shilong of Ming Dynasty said in Pen Dust: "The long-term fat and sweet taste not only hurts the stomach, but also makes people feel confused." Therefore, if the elderly want to live a long and healthy life, they must pay special attention to the aftercare of their diet. Porridge is mainly rice, supplemented by water, and slowly fried with fire until it is creamy like glue. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, moistening stomach and removing turbidity. Old people can eat when they are hungry, which is delicious and beneficial to people. It is indeed a good way to keep in good health. According to textual research, after several generations of doctors and health care experts' practice and theoretical summary, there are hundreds of porridge prescriptions. The ancients kept in good health and liked nature and randomness. Eating porridge is one of the best ways to keep healthy. Lu You, a famous poet in the Song Dynasty, died at the age of 86. He said in a poem "Eating Porridge": "Everyone in the world is an old man, but I didn't realize that at present I want to learn from the people and only eat porridge from the gods." Eating porridge to prolong life for the elderly is a way of keeping in good health advocated by the ancients. For example, the Book of the Later Han Dynasty said, "A man of seventy years old will be given a jade hairpin and eat porridge." Zhang Wenqian, a scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote The Story of Porridge: "If you eat a big bowl of porridge every day, your stomach will be weak on an empty stomach, and your stomach will be full of energy. The tonic is not fine, but it is extremely soft and greasy, which fits your stomach. It is the best diet. " Wang Mengying, a great physician in the Qing Dynasty, said in the "Resting Diet Spectrum": "Porridge is the best supplement in the world, and it is advisable for patients and parturients to keep porridge." Huang Yunhe, a health care scientist in the Qing Dynasty, said in "Porridge Spectrum": "One province costs two Jin Run, three flavors are complete, and four benefits are divided. Five easy to digest. "

Chen Xiuyuan, a medical scientist in the Qing Dynasty, said in Reading Shen Nong's Materia Medica: "All top-grade medicines should be taken for a long time, from life to year, and people should be fed from grain to test their life." Here refers to the use of ginseng, astragalus and other nourishing drugs to cook porridge, which can make people healthy and live longer. The famous book Gerontology in the Yuan Dynasty in China once pointed out: "The nature of the elderly is that they are disgusted with drugs and like to eat. It is better to treat diseases with food than to use drugs. Where the elderly have pain, they should be treated with food first, not with food, and then take medicine. "

Porridge can prevent and cure diseases, preserve health and prolong life. People in China have always had the tradition of tonic, but medicine tonic is not as good as food tonic, and porridge tonic should be the first one. Porridge tonic is widely used, it can tonify qi and blood, tonify yin and yang, invigorate spleen and moisten intestines, clear away heat and dispel cold ... and prevent and treat respiratory, nervous and urinary diseases. Reproductive, circulatory system and diseases such as children and gynecology. Compendium of Materia Medica points out: "In ancient times, glutinous rice, millet and rice were used as porridge to treat many diseases." "Six Books of Medicine" says: "Japonica rice porridge is a biochemical nourishing pill, and glutinous rice porridge is a wonderful product for nourishing grains." Popular folk proverbs about porridge in China, such as "white lotus is added to porridge if you don't sleep", "longan is added to porridge if you feel guilty", "Lycium barbarum is delicious when you want to nourish your liver" and "celery is added to porridge if you want to open your eyes", have all been proved to be very effective. "carrot porridge" in Compendium of Materia Medica can prevent hypertension if the elderly can eat it regularly; The "barley porridge" in Guangji Fang can prevent the elderly from getting cancer; "Corn flour porridge" can prevent cardiovascular diseases; Old people with chronic bronchitis often eat "mutton porridge" and "ginger porridge" in winter to prevent chronic bronchitis; Another example is fairy porridge, which is used to treat colds, headaches and fever. Duck porridge, winter melon porridge and red bean porridge can cure all kinds of edema; Almond porridge can cure cough in the elderly; Suanzaoren porridge for insomnia; Astragalus porridge for chronic nephritis; Lotus seed gorgon porridge is used to treat spermatogenesis and diarrhea.

Porridge can be timely and pleasant. In summer, you can eat mung bean porridge, red bean porridge, lotus leaf porridge, lily porridge, reed root porridge, as well as barley and yam. It integrates heatstroke prevention, detoxification and nourishing. If mung beans, red beans, black sesame seeds and cereal are made into four-color porridge, its color, fragrance and taste are all available, and its nourishing effect is more obvious. Eating dog meat porridge, mutton porridge, beef porridge and glutinous rice and red jujube porridge in winter is really wonderful, which not only warms the stomach to keep out the cold, but also nourishes it.

"Medicine and food are homologous, and medicine and food are used together." The ancients summed up the eight-character formula of "medicine borrows food power, food helps medicine power" and expounded the advantages of complementary food. Then, in today's advanced science and the reality of numerous tonics, porridge tonics still have their unique advantages. For the elderly, porridge is the most suitable.