1, 9 long method
1, eat less Might as well eat less. Lu Lao's recipe for three meals is this: drink 1 bowl of thick porridge for breakfast, whole grains, walnuts and peanuts can be put into porridge, and then eat two tea eggs. Lunch is 1 small bowl of rice or 1 steamed bread with some vegetarian dishes. Never eat staple food for dinner.
2. Eat slowly. If you want to eat calmly, you can only taste it slowly. Don't eat when you are angry, and don't be angry when you eat.
3. chew more. Lu Lao's breakfast porridge contains whole grains and is very chewy. He believes that the elderly should not drink too thin porridge, even if their teeth are not very good, they should eat some "dry goods" such as rice and steamed bread and chew more. Chewing more can greatly reduce the burden on the stomach.
4. Eat eggs. Eggs are rich in nutrition, and yolk is rich in lecithin, which has a good brain-strengthening effect.
5. Alcohol and tobacco are not taboo. Lao Lu often drinks a can of beer. When the weather turns cold, you can cook a bowl of yellow rice wine or drink some wine. But smoking and drinking are absolutely discouraged. Have a good smoke. When only one person smokes, the others don't smoke. Drinking is also a person's wine, not compared with others.
6. Bite your teeth and swallow Tianjin. Saliva is particularly important to the human body and can resist aging. Traditional Chinese medicine calls it golden jade liquid. Lao Lu tonifies the kidney and nourishes the essence by knocking on his teeth and swallowing fluid.
7. Do exercises regularly. Wake up every day and rub your hands on your face and behind your ears; Do the same at night for 10 minutes to make your body sweat slightly. This makes you feel comfortable and helps you sleep.
8. "People get old when they get old." Lu Lao himself has a simple "joint exercise": hold the table with both hands, lean forward, stand on tiptoe, then return to the ground and let the body move up and down repeatedly. The foot is the farthest place from the brain, and the blood circulation of the lower limbs is not good. Standing on tiptoe can make the blood flow in the legs smoother.
9. Tap the entire head with 10 fingertips, from the front hairline to the back hairline. Tap repeatedly for 2 minutes, and then comb your hair with the tips of 10 fingers for 2 minutes, also from the front hairline to the back hairline. There are many acupoints in the head meridian, so you can massage with your fingers frequently, which can play a health care role.
2. What can you eat to live longer?
1, drink porridge
Judging from the eating habits, long-lived old people like to drink porridge. Ma Yinchu, a famous economist, and his wife Zhang are both centenarians, and they both like porridge very much. Every morning, 50 grams of oatmeal is added to 250 grams of boiling water and brewed for two minutes to make porridge. Every day, never stop.
2. Millet is the best tonic
Old people like millet best and regard it as the best tonic. Sick old people often use millet to nourish their bodies. Millet benefits the five internal organs, thickens the stomach, nourishes body fluid and strengthens bones and muscles. A famous doctor in Qing Dynasty said: "Millet is the most nourishing. Rice oil when cooking rice porridge is better than ginseng chicken soup. " It can be seen that it makes sense for long-lived old people to like millet.
3. Corn is the staple food
Corn is the staple food of the long-lived elderly. The American Medical Association conducted a survey and found that none of the native Indians in the United States suffered from hypertension and arteriosclerosis. They used to eat old corn. Doctors found that old corn contains a lot of lecithin, linoleic acid, grain alcohol and vitamin E, so it is not easy to get high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis.
4. Drink milk every day
Drinking milk is a common habit of long-lived old people, especially the birthday girl who lives in the city. It is said that there are 25,000 centenarians in the United States, 80% of whom are women, and their eating habit is generally to drink milk. Benin, the birthday girl of 100 years old, drinks two glasses of milk every day, sometimes more, so when she is 100 years old, she still shows no signs of osteoporosis.
5. Eat an egg every day.
Eating an egg every day has become a common habit of long-lived elderly people. According to the arrangement of nutrition, Dr. chen hansheng, a centenarian and famous economist, insists on "three ones" in diet every day: "Eat an egg in the morning, drink a glass of milk at night and eat a big apple in the middle." He is vegetarian for three meals a day, eats less meat, has a scientific diet and eats healthily.
6. prefer sweet potatoes
Eating sweet potatoes is a big hobby of long-lived old people. According to medical experts, sweet potato has five functions: 1. It nourishes the blood and the middle energizer, and is rich in nutrition; 2. Wide bowel ventilation to promote defecation; 3. Yiqi Jinsheng, enhance immunity; 4. It contains anticancer substances, which can prevent cancer and fight cancer; 5. Anti-aging and prevention of arteriosclerosis.
Doctors say that sweet potato contains a lot of mucin, so it can prevent the atrophy of liver and kidney connective tissue and enhance human immunity. It also has the function of scavenging active oxygen and avoiding cancer induced by active oxygen. Because sweet potato contains more calcium and magnesium, it can prevent osteoporosis.
7. Everyone loves tofu.
Old people generally like to eat tofu. They said, "Fish makes a fire, meat produces phlegm, and cabbage and tofu keep you safe." "Life Taste Diet Spectrum" said: "It can be made anywhere, and the rich and the poor are easy to get together. Please consult the vegetarians. You can also eat meat. Those who are frozen in winter and moon taste You Mei. "
The main components of tofu are protein and isoflavones. Tofu has the functions of supplementing qi and deficiency, reducing blood lead concentration, protecting liver and promoting metabolism. Eating tofu regularly is good for health and intellectual development. The elderly often eat tofu, which has a good therapeutic effect on arteriosclerosis and osteoporosis.
8. like Chinese cabbage
Chinese cabbage, ordinary dishes, old people, favorite. Mr. Qi Baishi, a master of Chinese painting, has a picture of Chinese cabbage, which he thinks is "the king of Chinese cuisine" and praises "a hundred dishes are not as good as Chinese cabbage". The old man often says, "After eating cabbage for half a year, the doctor enjoys leisure." Chinese cabbage contains minerals, vitamins, protein, crude fiber and carotene. From the medicinal efficacy, Chinese cabbage has seven functions, such as nourishing the stomach and benefiting the intestine, relieving hangover and relaxing bowels, reducing blood fat, clearing away heat and preventing cancer.
9. Don't leave the radish in winter
Longevity old people can't eat without carrots in winter. They said, "Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer will keep you safe and healthy all year round." Zheng Banqiao, one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou", once wrote a couplet: "Vegetable, radish, brown rice, casserole, Tianshui chrysanthemum tea." "Radish is tea" is Mr. Zheng Lao's way of keeping in good health.
Radish is an out-and-out health food for the elderly. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can eliminate stagnation, digestion, aphonia, hematemesis, thirst, dysentery, headache and urination. Raw food can quench thirst, clear fire, resolve phlegm and relieve asthma, and help digestion. Steamed food can help digestion and strengthen the spleen, and has a nourishing effect.
10, carrot
Carrots are also the favorite of the elderly. Carrots are rich in vitamin A and carotene. Studies have shown that carrots can provide various nutrients needed to resist heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis.
Carotene can only be absorbed by human body if it is dissolved in oil. Therefore, experienced old people often slice or fry carrots, so that the preservation rate of carotene can reach more than 79%. The preservation rate of carotene was as high as 95% when sliced and stewed with meat. Carrots can also promote material exchange in the brain and enhance memory. Eating a plate of fried shredded carrots before reading and studying is conducive to consolidating memory.