In view of the diseases that the elderly are prone to occur in autumn, the Nutrition Department has prepared relevant nutrition and prevention knowledge education, and given suggestions from the aspects of autumn health preservation principles, precautions and what patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should pay attention to, hoping to help the elderly improve their self-care awareness and spend every day in the cold season healthily and happily.
Autumn is a transitional period in which yang disappears and yin grows. Therefore, following the natural characteristics of autumn to keep fit can get twice the result with half the effort. Specifically, we should do the following:
First, a healthy diet: the autumn diet should be based on nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, and eat more sour fruits and vegetables;
Second, regulate the spleen and stomach: try to avoid cold food;
Third, prevention of autumn deficiency: proper physical exercise;
Fourth, prevent autumn dryness: eat less spicy and greasy food;
5. Prevent colds: appropriately increase or decrease clothes and keep the room clean;
Sixth, go to bed early and get up early: getting up early properly can reduce the formation of thrombosis;
Seven, strengthen exercise: properly let the body feel cold, can better adapt to seasonal changes;
Eight, appropriate tonic: advocate food tonic, avoid eating drugs;
Nine, pay attention to nourishing yin: ensure daily drinking water and avoid strenuous exercise.
When it comes to complementary food, many people will find it very troublesome. The ingredients you may need to buy are very special, and some people can't stand adding Chinese medicine to their diet. In fact, there are many daily ingredients suitable for autumn tonic, such as tremella, sugar cane, pear, sesame, lotus root, spinach, black-bone chicken, pig lung, soybean milk, duck eggs, honey, olives, sesame seeds, walnuts, glutinous rice, sugar cane and so on. And moderate intake will have the effect of nourishing yin, moistening lung and nourishing blood; Eat sour fruits and vegetables, such as apples, pomegranates, grapes, mangoes, cherries, grapefruit, lemons, hawthorn and tomatoes. It can tonify liver qi and prevent liver and spleen from being damaged by excessive liver fire; Fish, lean pork and chicken are all good choices for a balanced diet in protein.
Common sense of autumn health care for the elderly
Replenish water to drive away autumn dryness.
The weather is dry in autumn, and the most important thing in autumn is to replenish enough water. Keeping in good health in autumn focuses on nourishing the lungs. Therefore, you should always eat lotus root, lily, white radish, yam, ginkgo and other foods in autumn.
Diet conditioning, nourishing yin and moistening lung
In autumn, the elderly should eat more sesame seeds, walnuts, glutinous rice and honey. It can nourish yin, moisten lungs and nourish blood, and eat less spicy and irritating foods such as onions, ginger, garlic and peppers. For the elderly with bad stomach, getting up early to drink porridge can play a role in benefiting bones and promoting fluid production.
Reasonable diet
The elderly have poor ability to control hunger and satiety. Hunger is prone to hypoglycemia, and satiety will increase the burden on the heart. So eat less and eat more on time. The interval between three meals a day is 4 to 6 hours, and the interval between supplementary meals and main meals is 1 hour. Complementary food can choose soybean milk, peanut paste, walnut crisp, soft cake, fruit and other foods.
Multi-purpose brain to prevent Alzheimer's disease
Most of the induced causes of Alzheimer's disease are cardiovascular diseases. When the weather turns cold in autumn and winter, cold stimulation will cause coronary artery spasm, affect heart blood supply insufficiency, and induce angina pectoris or myocardial infarction. Old people should cultivate more hobbies to keep the cerebral cortex excited and active, so that nerve cells will not shrink so quickly. Playing chess and mahjong is an effective way to exercise the brain, which can prevent the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease.
Autumn and winter alternate, the climate is changeable, the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, and the probability of catching a cold is greatly increased. Patients with cardiovascular diseases are prone to relapse or aggravate their condition, so they should pay more attention to maintenance than usual. Usually, we should avoid too hasty action, too excited mood, overeating, too low pillow position, taking medicine and monitoring blood pressure. If you can do the above, I believe you can enjoy life better every day in the future.