How do the elderly eat dinner? 1, it should be light.
Dinner should not be too greasy, but light, and you can eat more rice noodles and vegetables. Rice flour can provide enough protein for human body, while vegetables provide enough vitamins and cellulose to moisten the stomach. Eating too much meat at dinner will increase the cholesterol content in the body, and too much cholesterol will accumulate on the blood vessel wall, which will easily induce diseases such as arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease over time.
Due to the digestive cycle of human stomach, early dinner time will lead to hunger at night, and too late will lead to incomplete digestion of food and affect the function of stomach. Therefore, it is best to have dinner between 5 ~ 7 pm, and it is best not to fall asleep within 3 ~ 4 hours after eating.
Step 2 eat well early
Eating dinner early can greatly reduce the incidence of urinary calculi in middle-aged and elderly people. The peak of calcium excretion is usually 4-5 hours after eating. If you eat dinner too late, when the peak of calcium excretion comes, people have gone to bed and fallen asleep, and urine will remain in the urinary tract such as ureter, bladder, urethra, etc., which will not be excreted in time, resulting in an increasing calcium content in urine and easy deposition to form small crystals. Over time, it will gradually expand and form stones. Therefore, it is suitable for the elderly to have dinner around 6 pm.
Step 3 don't drink
It's best not to drink. If it is unavoidable, it is best to ensure that you don't fall asleep within 3 to 4 hours after drinking. If you have inevitable social intercourse, you should learn to adjust your state appropriately to reduce the harm caused by alcohol. For example, drinking green tea can decompose alcohol in the body and relieve the discomfort caused by drinking. Milk can not only dissolve alcohol, but also protect the gastric mucosa and reduce the pressure on the stomach caused by eating at night. So drink more green tea and milk when you are drunk.
4, but not meat
People who often eat meat for dinner have a blood lipid 3-4 times higher than those who often eat vegetarian food. Eating too many calories at dinner can easily lead to an increase in cholesterol, and over time, it will induce arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease.
5, not too sweet
It is not advisable to eat sweets often after dinner and dinner, because sugar is easily absorbed by the human body and converted into fat. Rest immediately after meals, insulin secretion increases, sugar is more easily converted into fat, and the concentration of neutral fat in the blood increases, which makes it easy to get fat.
Matters needing attention in dinner for the elderly 1. Avoid overeating.
If the abdomen is full, the diaphragm will move up, affecting the normal activities of the heart and lungs. In addition, more food needs to be digested, and a large amount of blood will be concentrated in the gastrointestinal tract to help, resulting in reduced blood supply to the heart and brain, which is easy to cause symptoms such as acute gastroenteritis, acute pancreatitis, angina pectoris and stroke.
2. Avoid gluttony and binge drinking.
Drinking too much at night can easily lead to acute alcoholism, which will hurt the stomach, liver and brain.
3, avoid fatty, sweet greasy
Too much greasy food will stimulate intestinal mucosa, cause indigestion, affect the absorption of nutrients and aggravate the deposition of fat. Dinner should be light, which is beneficial to stomach, body fluid and sleep.
4, avoid eating too salty
Sodium in salt can lead to water retention in the body, increase the burden on the heart and kidneys, and cause high blood pressure, fatigue and stroke.
5, avoid drinking strong tea
Drinking too much tea will increase frequent 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 makes people constipated. Moreover, drinking too much tea in a short 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, avoid cold diet
Eating cold drinks and cold dishes will cause vasoconstriction of gastric mucosa and decrease the secretion of gastric juice, leading to loss of appetite and indigestion.
7. Avoid eating
Chew slowly to facilitate the digestion and absorption of nutrients. Old people should not take eating as the only purpose of maintaining life and filling their stomachs. In fact, a correct and reasonable diet is the most valuable shortcut for the elderly to supplement and strengthen their health, and it is also the most beneficial and effective fitness method.
Recipes suitable for the elderly 1, fried shredded pork with bitter gourd
Ingredients: bitter gourd, fat meat and lean meat.
Seasoning: dried pepper, vegetable oil, garlic slices, salt, chicken essence.
Practice: Wash bitter gourd, cut two petals, remove pedicels and seeds, and cut into filaments. Fat meat and lean meat are cut into filaments. Heat oil in a pot, add shredded pork, stir-fry until it is 80% cooked, add garlic slices and dried peppers, add shredded bitter gourd, add salt and monosodium glutamate, and stir-fry until it is cooked.
2. Braised ribs with kelp
Ingredients: 250g sparerib, kelp knot100g, white radish100g.
Seasoning: salt, soy sauce and ginger.
Practice: wash the ribs with boiling water, put them in a pot, add water to the ribs and boil them. Pour off the water or remove the floating foam. Wash the kelp knots and soak them in warm water until soft. Cut the white radish into small pieces. Add water and pre-cooked ribs into the pot, bring to a boil with high fire, and cook with low fire 1 hour. Add kelp and cook for about 30 minutes, add radish, ginger slices, salt and soy sauce, and continue to simmer.
3. Mushroom tofu
Ingredients: south tofu, mushrooms, magnolia slices.
Seasoning: salt, monosodium glutamate, onion, sugar, wet starch, sesame oil and broth.
Practice: Cut the tofu into small squares, blanch it in a boiling water pot, and take it out to dry. Water the sliced mushrooms and magnolia officinalis, remove the roots of mushrooms, and slice magnolia officinalis into filaments. Heat the pan and drain the oil. Stir-fry chopped green onion first, then add mushrooms, Flos Magnoliae, salt and broth. After boiling, add tofu, add monosodium glutamate, sugar, thicken and drizzle with sesame oil.
Health care for the elderly after meals 1, rinse your mouth first.
Zhang Zhongjing, an ancient medical scientist, pointed out, "Washing your teeth after meals makes your teeth unbeaten and tastes good." Gargling can remove food residues and some soft dirt in the mouth, reduce the number of bacteria in the mouth, and thus reduce the incidence of gastrointestinal diseases.
Step 2 take a break
"When you are full, you will get sick." Many elderly people dare not lie down immediately after meals and choose to take a walk, but this is not healthy. The correct way is to rest for 30 minutes after meals, which is helpful to promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and secrete gastrointestinal digestive juice.
3, rubbing the abdomen
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that navel and abdomen are equivalent to intestinal glands of pyloric gland of stomach. Regular rubbing can accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, increase gastric juice, help digestion and normal excretion.
Step 4 listen to a ditty
"Shou Shi Bao Yuan" said: "The spleen is good at music, and the sound will move." Especially for elderly friends, enjoying light music after meals is good for your health.