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What should the elderly pay attention to in winter diet?
1, avoid overeating. If you eat too much at dinner, the diaphragm will move up easily, which will affect the normal activities of the heart and lungs. In addition, the food you eat needs to be digested, and a large amount of blood will be concentrated in the gastrointestinal tract to help, which will reduce the blood supply to the heart and brain and easily cause common symptoms such as acute gastroenteritis, acute pancreatitis, angina pectoris and stroke.

2, avoid drinking too much, the elderly drink too much at night, which is easy to cause acute alcoholism and hurt the stomach, liver and brain.

3, avoid greasy diet, if you eat too greasy food for dinner, it will cause irritation and indigestion to the intestinal mucosa, affect the absorption of nutrients, and aggravate fat deposition. Therefore, the dinner for the elderly should be light, which is conducive to benefiting the stomach and promoting fluid production and ensuring the quality of sleep.

4, avoid eating too salty, sodium in salt will cause water retention in the body, and increase the burden on the heart and kidneys, causing high blood pressure, failure and stroke.

5, avoid drinking strong tea, drinking too much tea will increase the number of urination and affect the quality of sleep. At the same time, tea contains a lot of caffeine, which is exciting and difficult to sleep. Tannic acid in tea can combine with protein in food to form a large amount of tannic acid protein, which causes constipation symptoms. Drinking too much tea in a short period of time will suddenly increase the water in the body and increase the burden on the heart and kidneys of the elderly, which is even more harmful to the elderly who already have high blood pressure, heart disease and kidney disease.

6, do not eat cold, eat cold drinks and cold dishes, can cause gastric mucosal vasoconstriction, gastric juice secretion decreased, leading to decreased appetite and indigestion.