What snacks should the elderly eat?
If the elderly want to have a healthy life and body, they will be influenced by many aspects, and diet is one aspect. Only a scientific and healthy diet in the daily life of the elderly is most conducive to the health care of the elderly. In addition to three meals a day, eating healthy snacks properly helps to supplement energy and nutrition.
Nutrition experts point out that it is timely and suitable for the health of the elderly to eat some healthy snacks for the elderly over 65 years old. The appropriate time is 90: 00 in the morning, 3: 00 or 4: 00 in the afternoon and 8: 00 or 9: 00 in the evening. The food you choose must be nutritious, but the calories should not be too high, mainly fruit, milk, soybean milk and a small amount of dry pasta. Occasionally, you can choose nuts in moderation, such as peanuts, melon seeds, pistachios, hazelnuts and walnuts.
Blueberries keep elastic: 1999, the Meyer Human Nutrition Research Center of Tufts University conducted an experiment, and they fed mice blueberry extract for quite a period of time, equivalent to ten years of human beings. It was found that the mice that ate blueberries had a better sense of balance and physical coordination than ordinary mice when they were old. This also confirms that the compounds in blueberries can help reduce inflammation and oxidative damage, thus improving memory and limb flexibility in old age.
Jujube: Old people can eat red dates as snacks. On the one hand, rich carbohydrates in red dates can replenish energy when we are hungry, so that we can maintain a good "fighting capacity", and rich dietary fiber can provide a sense of fullness and help alleviate hunger; On the other hand, compared with biscuits, bread, cakes, egg yolk pies and other snacks, although they all contain a lot of carbohydrates, red dates basically contain no fat, trans fatty acids and food additives, and are rich in dietary fiber. Old people eat red dates as snacks, and health will not consume too much energy.
Chestnut: Chestnut is known as the "king of thousands of fruits", and its mellow and sweet taste is always unforgettable. With the growth of age, the physical function of the elderly declines. Chestnuts can strengthen the spleen and stomach, promote blood circulation and stop bleeding, and also have a good effect on kidney deficiency, which is very helpful for elderly diabetic patients with kidney deficiency. Therefore, sugar fried chestnuts are a good snack for the elderly.
Peanut: The ancients called peanuts the fruit of longevity. Every 100 gram of peanut contains folic acid 104.9 micrograms, and adults consume 60 micrograms of folic acid every day, which can meet normal physiological needs. Therefore, peanuts have the effects of nourishing the spleen and stomach, moistening the lungs and resolving phlegm. For the elderly with hypertension and arteriosclerosis, jealous soaking peanuts is beneficial to lowering blood pressure and softening blood vessels. Catechin and lysine contained in peanut fruit have anti-aging effect on human body. The content of zinc in peanut fruit is generally higher than that in other oil crops. It can enhance the memory function of the brain, activate the brain cells of middle-aged and elderly people, delay premature aging and resist aging.
What precautions should the elderly pay attention to when eating snacks?
1. Snacks that should not be eaten too much are not like meals, but just a supplement. So don't overdo it, or it will affect your health.
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2. Grasping the time to eat snacks should be between meals or when you feel hungry after work and study at night, so as to supplement the lack of dinner and eat easily digestible snacks.
Don't eat smoked and fried snacks. After food is smoked and fried, it is easy to produce harmful substances, which are harmful to health and even lead to poisoning or cancer.
It is best for the elderly not to eat cold snacks, because these snacks are too cold, which will stimulate the gastrointestinal blood vessels of the elderly and cause contraction. At the same time, it will also affect the digestive function of the elderly and even induce diseases such as gastroenteritis. Therefore, for the sake of the gastrointestinal health of the elderly, cold drinks should be eaten with caution.