1, eggplant
Eggplant is also called Russell. Contains a variety of vitamins, especially vitamin P, which has a good effect on enhancing cell adhesion, improving microvascular elasticity and preventing microvascular hemorrhage. Modern medicine has found that eating eggplant regularly can effectively reduce the cholesterol in the human body and play an important role in preventing the elderly from suffering from diseases such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia and cerebral hemorrhage. Old people can often eat eggplant.
2. Hawthorn
Hawthorn is rich in vitamin C, bioflavonoids and other nutrients, which can play a good role in dilating blood vessel wall, lowering cholesterol and lowering blood pressure. At the same time, maslinic acid, citric acid and other substances also have a good antihypertensive effect.
However, some elderly people will have gastrointestinal discomfort after eating hawthorn, so they can eat less hawthorn.
3. Cucumber
Cucumber contains a lot of cellulose, which can reduce the absorption of cholesterol by human body, and at the same time, it can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat in the body, which has obvious effect on controlling human blood lipid.
4, peanuts
Peanut contains a lot of unsaturated fatty acids, which can play a very good role in lowering cholesterol. This is because peanuts need to be in contact with bile during digestion to absorb cholesterol in bile, thus reducing cholesterol content.
In addition, peanuts are also rich in vitamin E, which has a good effect on strengthening the contraction ability of capillaries and reducing the deposition of platelets on the blood vessel wall. For the elderly with coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia and other diseases, you can eat some peanuts appropriately.
5.sweet potato
Sweet potato contains more mucus and polysaccharide, which has a good effect on maintaining vascular elasticity and preventing lipid deposition and atherosclerosis in cardiovascular system.
6. Mung beans
Mung bean is not only a sharp weapon to relieve summer heat and thirst, but also has a good effect of lowering blood fat, protecting heart and preventing coronary heart disease. Regular consumption of food made of mung beans or mung bean powder can play a very good role in lowering serum cholesterol and low-density protein.
The above are several foods with good blood lipid lowering effect, and the elderly can eat more of these foods in their daily lives. But the digestive system of the elderly is far less than that of adults, so it is best to eat less and eat more at a time.