Tea is also a very common drink.
Since ancient times, tea has the effect of health preservation. Not only does it taste nothing like boiled water, but it also has a faint fragrance, which makes many elderly people like to have a quiet drink in their spare time.
What are the benefits of drinking tea for the elderly?
1, tea can prevent Alzheimer's disease.
Studies have found that drinking tea often helps to prevent dementia in the elderly.
Daily elderly people often ignore the precursors of Alzheimer's disease, so prevention is very important.
The experimental results also show that the effective components in tea can often inhibit the activity of specific enzymes in brain tonic, thus enhancing and strengthening memory. Perhaps in the future, tea can gradually become a new weapon to treat Alzheimer's disease.
According to a Japanese scientific research, if you insist on drinking two or three cups of green tea every day, your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease can be reduced by at least half.
The efficacy of green tea mainly depends on the tea polyphenols in green tea.
Tea polyphenols is actually an antioxidant, which can eliminate harmful free radicals in human body, thus achieving the effect of preventing Alzheimer's disease.
If you drink three cups of green tea every day, you can not only reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease, but also improve your overall memory and attention.
2. Preventing and treating various cancers is also the effect of green tea.
In Asia, the overall cancer incidence of people who drink tea regularly is significantly lower than that of people who don't drink tea.
Studies have found that people who don't smoke but often drink green tea have a much lower incidence of esophageal cancer than others.
3. Prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
After many scientific studies, drinking more tea can reduce the blood viscosity, prevent thrombosis, reduce the permeability and brittleness of capillaries, lower serum cholesterol and increase high density lipoprotein, thus achieving the role of preventing cardiovascular diseases.
4. You can control your weight
According to some surveys, people who drink tea for a long time will have significantly lower body fat content than those who don't drink tea.
At the same time, there will be less fat in the abdomen.
Especially for people who drink tea for more than ten years, the proportion of body fat will be reduced by about 20%, which will be more obvious for women.
What kind of tea is suitable for the elderly and what role barley tea has; Nourishing stomach and quenching thirst, quenching thirst and removing heat, benefiting qi and regulating middle warmer, broadening chest and regulating qi, promoting digestion and resolving food stagnation, and treating senile polydipsia, indefinite drinking water and dry tongue; Control water and gas diseases; Clearing heat and relieving summer heat in summer. Quenching thirst, clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating qi, harmonizing middle warmer, nourishing fatigue, strengthening blood fat, benefiting skin color, nourishing five internal organs, promoting digestion, relieving diarrhea, and making skin greasy.
Chamomile has the effect of calming the nerves and helping digestion, which is most suitable for drinking after meals and before going to bed. It is the best tea for people who are prone to insomnia.
Huang Jinlian; Can be used for treating rhinitis, tonsillitis, aphtha, etc. Very effective for people who smoke exclusively;
Violet; It can protect bronchus, is suitable for people who smoke too much, and also has the effect of treating constipation.