First, don't make up for it if you are not sick, which not only increases your expenses, but also harms yourself. If you take too much cod liver oil, it will lead to poisoning. If you take glucose for a long time, it will cause obesity, increase blood cholesterol and easily induce cardiovascular diseases.
Second, don't distinguish between reality and reality. The treatment principle of traditional Chinese medicine is to replenish deficiency. It does not mean that patients with asthenia should not use tonics. Deficiency is divided into yin deficiency, yang deficiency, qi deficiency and blood deficiency. Only symptomatic medication can make up the body, otherwise it will be counterproductive and hurt the body. Although health care is not as strict as treating diseases, at least the dining objects should be divided into two categories: cold and heat. Slightly cold people are afraid of cold and like heat, their hands and feet are not hot, their mouth is pale and drooling, their stools are loose, their urine is long, their tongue is pale, and their pulse is heavy and thin. Fever often has fever in hands and feet, dry mouth, bitter taste, bad breath, dry stool, short and red urine, red tongue and rapid pulse. If you don't distinguish between cold and heat, it's easy to add fuel to the fire, which is harmful to your health.
Third, don't take too many tonics. Eating too much tonic is harmful. It is considered that it is not advisable to "take more tonics, treat diseases and strengthen the body without diseases". If you take ginseng antler supplements too much, it will cause bloating and not think about diet; Taking too much vitamin C can cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
Fourth, don't use meat instead of animal food. It is undoubtedly a good medicine for tonic. It is not only nutritious, but also delicious. However, meat is not easy to digest and absorb. If you take it for a long time, it will often be crushed by the elderly with weakened gastrointestinal function. Some "by-products" in the process of meat digestion, such as excessive lipids and sugars, are often the causes of common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases in the elderly, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and cancer. A light diet is not without supplements, especially vegetables. Modern nutrition believes that fresh fruits and vegetables contain a variety of vitamins and trace elements, which are indispensable nutrients for human body.
5. Don't treat medicine as a tonic. It's not advisable to treat medicine lightly. As we all know, many foods are also therapeutic drugs. Eating more celery can prevent and treat hypertension; Eating more radishes can strengthen the stomach, promote digestion, smooth the qi, broaden the chest, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough; Eating more yam can replenish the spleen and stomach. Daily use of walnuts, peanuts, red dates, lentils, lotus roots and so on. It is also a good supplement.
6. Don't go in again. With the improvement of people's living standards, many families have meat and fish every day, and the food is too greasy. The acidic toxic substances produced by these foods need to be discharged in time, and the accelerated pace of life makes many people have irregular defecation and even constipation. Therefore, in recent years, health experts have put forward a new concept of health care that pays attention to "negative nutrition", which not only pays attention to the discharge of human excreta and reduces the retention and absorption of "enterotoxin", but also advocates timely and unobstructed defecation while supplementing.
Seven, don't use a single tonic for a long time. Some people like to take some tonic according to their own tastes, and then develop from constant for many years to partial eclipse, which is not good for their health. Because drugs and food not only have health care and therapeutic effects, but also have certain side effects, long-term use will affect the nutritional balance in the body. Especially for the elderly, not only the functions of various organs have declined to varying degrees, but also they need comprehensive and systematic conditioning, and they also have different demands for health care drugs and food in different seasons. Therefore, it needs to be adjusted according to different situations.
Eight, don't divide the high and low, the rare is the most expensive. Those noble traditional foods such as bird's nest and shark's fin have no peculiar therapeutic effect, but very common foods such as sweet potatoes and onions have therapeutic value worthy of attention. In addition, all dietotherapy has certain objects and indications, so the medicated diet should be determined according to the needs, and what is missing and what is supplemented. Don't divide high and low, especially the elderly, but take practical low price as the principle.