When people reach old age, the functions of body organs begin to deteriorate and the body's resistance becomes weak. It is easy to get some chronic diseases at this time. The elderly should pay more attention to physical exercise and health preservation at ordinary times, and besides, they should make more efforts in diet, because the three highs of the elderly have a lot to do with bad diet. If we pay more attention to diet, it is of great significance to reduce or reduce various chronic diseases. So how should the elderly eat?
Experts pointed out that the diet of the elderly should pay attention to the three lows, that is, low sugar, low fat and low salt, which is beneficial to the health of the elderly.
1, low salt
Old people don't exercise enough, sweat less and eat less salt, so the amount of salt should be less, not more than 8 grams a day. When suffering from diseases such as hypertension, nephritis, liver disease and heart failure, the diet should be light, and the amount of salt should be 2 to 4 grams per day. This is because salt is the main source of chlorine and sodium in human body, but often eating salty food will make water stay in the body, increase cardiac output, and easily cause kidney disease and hypertension.
2, low fat
Eating too much oil is harmful to health. High-fat diets, especially those with high animal fat content, are closely related to cardiovascular diseases, cholecystitis and pancreatitis.
When the average daily intake of animal food reaches 150g, the amount of edible oil should be controlled at about 20g. The elderly have less activities and less fat intake, so they should eat less, especially animal fat. If the diet is mainly vegetarian, you can add a little fat in moderation.
3, low sugar
The elderly often eat high-sugar foods, which do more harm than good, because the elderly consume less energy and their blood sugar regulation function is gradually weakened. Eating sweets and sweets often leads to dental caries, calcium deficiency, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and so on.