1, walnut
Walnut kernel is rich in nutrients, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other essential trace elements and minerals, carotene and other vitamins. Walnut has the function of strengthening brain and improving intelligence, and has a good therapeutic effect on dizziness, insomnia, palpitation, forgetfulness, loss of appetite, weakness of waist and knees, general weakness and other symptoms that middle-aged and elderly people often suffer from.
2. Grapes
Hypertension is a common disease in the elderly. After this disease occurs, it is difficult to eradicate. Pay more attention to your diet. Besides eating less salt, you can also eat more grapes. Grape, a kind of fruit, contains some trace element potassium, which can promote the excretion of sodium in human body and reduce excessive blood pressure.
3. Orange Net
When many people eat oranges, they always tear off the white meridians on the surface of orange petals after peeling off the orange peel.
In fact, orange collaterals contain a vitamin called "Luding", which can maintain the normal elasticity and density of human blood vessels, reduce the brittleness and permeability of blood vessel walls, and prevent capillary hemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage in hypertensive patients and retinal hemorrhage in diabetic patients. For people with bleeding tendency at ordinary times, especially the elderly with arteriosclerosis tendency, eating orange collaterals is more beneficial.
4. Fish phosphorus
Nutritionists have found that fish scales contain more lecithin, a variety of unsaturated fatty acids and a variety of minerals, especially calcium and phosphorus, which are special health care products. It has the effects of enhancing memory, delaying brain cell aging, reducing cholesterol deposition on blood vessel wall, promoting blood circulation, and preventing hypertension and heart disease. In addition, it can also prevent rickets in children, osteoporosis and fractures in the elderly.
5. apophyllite
Especially in Ceratopogonidae, it is rich in unsaturated fatty acids such as docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). This natural substance can enhance the memory and thinking ability of the brain, which is of great benefit to prevent diseases such as memory loss, cholesterol increase and hypertension.
6.honey
Honey contains a variety of amino acids, vitamins, trace elements, enzymes and hormones, so it has a good role in promoting metabolism, stimulating appetite, nourishing the brain, calming the nerves and enriching blood. Honey can also enhance the body's ability to resist various diseases and inhibit the growth of cancer cells. Honey also has a good medicinal effect, which is effective for neurasthenia, aging, hypertension, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases. Regular consumption can prevent arteriosclerosis, and long-term use can prolong life.
7.jujube
Jujube is extremely rich in vitamins and is known as the "natural vitamin pill". Its vitamin C content is 10 times higher than that of citrus and 80 times higher than that of apple, and its vitamin P content is also extremely rich. In addition, red dates are rich in protein and inorganic salts such as iron, calcium and phosphorus, which are indispensable to human body.
8. Apple
Apple has the reputation of "fruit of wisdom" and "fruit of memory". Eating more apples can improve memory and intelligence. Apples are rich in nutrients necessary for the brain, such as sugar, vitamins and minerals, especially zinc, which can produce antibodies and improve human immunity.
At the same time, apples also have the effect of lowering cholesterol content. Eating apples can reduce the content of cholesterol in blood, increase bile secretion and bile acid function, thus preventing cholesterol from precipitating in bile to form gallstones. Apples are nutritious and easily digested and absorbed by human body, which is very suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and patients.
9.grapefruit
The carbohydrate content of grapefruit is 9.5g per100g. This is undoubtedly good news for obese people. Medicine believes that foods rich in carbohydrates will make blood sugar and insulin surge, which will lead to obesity, even diabetes and heart disease. The average person's daily consumption is best not to exceed 200 grams, just one large petal a day. Chinese medicine believes that grapefruit is cold, and people with deficiency and cold should not eat more.
10, strawberry
When human beings enter old age, their digestive ability will be weakened, and symptoms of indigestion will often appear. At this time, you can eat more strawberries and kiwifruit, which can regulate gastric acid secretion, eliminate various germs in the gastrointestinal tract and promote gastrointestinal peristalsis. Eating more at ordinary times can obviously relieve the symptoms of indigestion.
Recommendation of nutritional recipes suitable for the elderly
1, eight-treasure spinach
Practice: Wash the teddy bear spinach, shredded carrots, shredded mushrooms and shredded winter bamboo shoots, and blanch them in boiling water with salt. Cashews, almonds and walnuts are fished out in hot oil and crushed. Heat the oil, add shredded onion, stir-fry shredded ham and shredded seaweed, shovel it out and put it on spinach, add salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil, mix well and sprinkle with chopped dried fruit.
Efficacy: Spinach is a vegetable that is available all year round, but it is better in spring, with red leaves and green roots, fresh and tender, and the most delicious. Spinach on the market in spring is good for detoxification and preventing spring dryness. Chinese medicine also believes that spinach is sweet and cool, which can nourish blood and stop bleeding, astringe yin and moisten dryness. Because spinach contains more oxalic acid, which hinders the absorption of calcium and iron, you should first blanch the spinach with boiling water and then fry it.
2, lean cabbage soup
Ingredients: lean meat 100g, Chinese cabbage, ginger, garlic, salt, monosodium glutamate and chicken oil.
Practice: wash and shred the cabbage, put it in boiling water, take it out when it is just cooked, rinse it with clear water and drain it for later use; Put the pot on a big fire, add chicken oil and cook for five times, add garlic, stir-fry the jade gold palace lock heart, add lean meat and stir-fry, add fine salt, cook in the soup, add cabbage heart to boil, and add monosodium glutamate to serve.
Efficacy: lean meat has the effect of tonifying the middle energizer, invigorating qi, promoting fluid production and moistening intestines; Chinese cabbage is flat and sweet, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, resolving phlegm, relieving cough, removing annoyance and relaxing bowels. Lean Chinese cabbage is suitable for acute and chronic pneumonia.
3. Red dates and honey beans
Materials: 400g red beans (or white beans and kidney beans), jujube 100g, rock sugar 100g, maltose 300g, oil 100ml (maltose is not needed).
Practice: Wash red beans and red dates, soak them in clear water for 4 hours and add water for about half an hour; Controlling the cooked beans and dates to dry; Mix the above materials in a pot, stir slowly and turn off the fire for about half an hour.
Efficacy: Spring is the season of common diseases, such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia and coronary heart disease. Therefore, it is advisable to increase sweetness and decrease acidity in spring. Jujube has the effects of strengthening the spleen and nourishing blood, benefiting the heart and calming the nerves.
4. Braised bamboo shoots in oil
Practice: spring bamboo shoots are shelled and the tender stems are cut into hob blocks; Cut some shallots and a little chopped green onion; Heat cooking oil, stir-fry onion, add bamboo shoots, stir-fry for a while, add soy sauce, sugar and fennel, continue to stir-fry, add a little water to boil, cover and stew for 10 minute; Collect thick soup over high fire, take out onion segments, sprinkle with fresh chopped green onion, and take out the pan and plate.
Efficacy: Spring bamboo shoots conform to the solar terms, benefit nine orifices, dredge blood vessels, eliminate phlegm and promote digestion. It is a nutritious food with high protein, low fat, low starch and crude cellulose.
Pay attention to the diet of the elderly in spring
1, spring diet should conform to the characteristics of solar terms, people who usually like to eat acidic food should eat less at this time, because spring is the season of divergence, and acidic food has the function of convergence. If you continue to eat more acid, it is not conducive to the vomiting of the body and will damage the spleen and stomach. People who like sour food, eating more sweets can replenish the spleen and stomach.
2, the elderly should have good eating habits in spring, food diversification, thick and thin collocation, eat high-protein food properly, and control salt intake.
3. In spring, the elderly should avoid greasy, sour and cold things, and don't drink too much.
4. Generally, the tonic for the elderly who are sick or recovered from illness should be based on cool, light, delicious and digestible foods, and rice porridge, glutinous rice porridge, red bean porridge, lotus seed porridge, green vegetable paste and pork floss can be selected. Avoid eating foods that are too sweet, fried, cold and indigestible, so as not to damage gastrointestinal function.
Dietary taboos of the elderly in spring
1, not difficult
The elderly should not eat greasy, fried, hard and irritating food, otherwise it will strain the spleen and hurt the stomach, leading to indigestion and indigestion.
2, not early
Modern medical research believes that after a night's sleep, most organs of the human body have been fully rested, but the digestive system is still very busy at night, nervously digesting the food left in the gastrointestinal tract all day, and will not rest until the morning. It takes at least 2-3 hours for the digestive system to return to normal function. The functions of various tissues and organs of the elderly are gradually aging. If you eat too early, the body's energy will be transferred to digest food, and the natural cycle will be disrupted. Metabolites can not be eliminated in time, and accumulation in the body will become the inducing factor of various diseases in the elderly. Therefore, the breakfast of the elderly should generally be between 8: 30 and 9: 00.
3, should not be more
Eating too much exceeds the digestive capacity of the stomach, and the food cannot be digested and absorbed. Over time, it will reduce digestive function and cause gastrointestinal diseases. In addition, a large amount of food residues are stored in the large intestine and decomposed by bacteria in the large intestine. Among them, phenol, the decomposition product of protein, enters human blood through intestinal wall, which is very harmful to human body, easily causes vascular diseases and promotes aging.