It is recommended to eat vegetables with low glycemic index such as cucumber, tomato, green vegetables and celery. Fruits, such as grapefruit, kiwi, strawberry and green apple. Choose high-quality protein such as lean meat, milk and fish. The staple food is best to choose steamed bread made of coarse grains such as corn flour, buckwheat flour and oat flour, but everyone should pay attention.

General elderly patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease. Generally speaking, they need a low-fat diet that is easy to digest. Don't overeat, eat more crude fiber food and keep your stool unobstructed. If you have diabetes, it may be stricter. You should have a balanced diet, that is, under the premise of controlling the total calories, try to make all kinds of cereals, meat, eggs, milk, vegetables and fruits complete to obtain balanced nutrition.

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Old people should pay attention to their diet.

1. Adapting to personal characteristics: Due to differences in gender, age, physical condition and personal living habits, the choice of health food cannot be unified. The same food may be effective for some people, but it may be counterproductive for others.

For example, milk is an ideal nutritious food for most people, but a few people will feel uncomfortable and have diarrhea after eating because of the lack of lactase in their bodies; Eating the same longan meat, some people can sleep well, and some people will get angry and lose sleep. In addition, the elderly with weak constitution should pay attention to the difference between yang deficiency and yin deficiency when taking food supplements, and those with yang deficiency should choose mutton and dog meat as supplements; People with yin deficiency should eat nourishing yin foods such as turtle meat, nail fish meat and mussel meat.

2, pay attention to the sexual ambiguity in the diet: food has four characteristics: cold, hot, warm and cool, sour, bitter, sweet, spicy and salty. General cold food has the functions of clearing away heat, purging fire, detoxifying and diminishing inflammation, and is suitable for people suffering from febrile diseases in spring and summer. This kind of food includes cereals, mung beans, red beans, pears, bananas and persimmons. Warm food has the functions of warming middle warmer, tonifying deficiency and dispelling cold, and is suitable for people with deficiency and cold in autumn and winter. This kind of food includes glutinous rice, meat, crucian carp, eel and so on.

Different tastes of food also have different functions. Pungent taste can dispel dampness, dredge blood, activate qi and blood, strengthen bones and muscles, and enhance the body's resistance. Sweet ignorance can nourish and relieve pain. Sour taste has astringent effect, and it can nourish yin and moisten dryness when combined with sweet taste. Bitter taste can reduce fire, dry dampness, strengthen yin, combine with sweet taste, and have the functions of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, eliminating dampness and detoxifying. Salty taste has the effect of softening and resolving hard mass and diarrhea. And light food has diuretic effect.

3. Choose food flexibly according to time and place: the temperature in spring, hot in summer, cool in autumn and cold in winter all year round, and the climate change will have a certain impact on human physiological functions. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that diet can keep up with the changes of the four seasons, and can maintain Yin, Yang, Qi and blood in the body, so that "healthy qi exists inside, but evil qi cannot exist".

It is generally believed that the climate in spring is warm and everything is full of vitality, which is suitable for a light diet. You should eat more porridge, such as shepherd's purse porridge. In summer, the climate is hot, rainy and humid, so it is advisable to eat something sweet and cool, such as mung bean soup, lotus leaf porridge, mint soup, watermelon and wax gourd. In autumn, the climate turns cool and dry, so it is advisable to eat foods that can produce saliva, such as lotus root porridge. It's cold in winter, so the food should be warm. Eight-treasure rice, instant-boiled mutton, longan and jujube porridge can all be eaten to warm and replenish essence.

At ordinary times, it is suggested that Xiaojiang tea, a traditional Chinese medicine prescription with the same origin of medicine and food, can be used as tea, which can play a good conditioning role. Different geographical environments also have a great influence on food structure, such as improper diet, which will also lead to acclimatization, so it should be adjusted according to individual differences.