The health preserving methods of the elderly in daily life are as follows:

1. In terms of diet health, the elderly should give priority to a light diet, eat more green leafy vegetables and coarse grains, avoid eating foods that are too spicy and irritating, cold and cold, stiff or fresh, and eat less greasy foods, including big meat, broth, fried, grilled or fried foods. Food is diverse, mainly cereals; Eat more vegetables, fruits and potatoes; Often eat milk, beans or their products; Eat proper amount of fish, poultry, eggs and lean meat, and eat less fat and meat oil; Food intake and physical activity should be balanced to maintain a proper weight; Light and salt-free diet; Drinking should be limited; Eat clean, hygienic and non-perishable food. The proportion of carbohydrate, fat and protein is 70% for carbohydrate, 20% for fat, and 65,438+00% for protein. Old people's physique is weak, and their overall function declines, which determines that the nutrition they need is different from that when they were young.

2. Health exercise. Older people should do more outdoor physical exercise and get more sunshine at the same time, which will help to supplement calcium. Outdoor physical exercise includes jogging, jogging, cycling, mountain climbing, skipping rope and other related physical exercises.

3. The elderly should also do more preventive health care in health care. For example, some Chinese medicines can be used as tea substitutes at ordinary times, and daily use can also play a health care role. For example, medlar soaked in water or astragalus soaked in water or codonopsis pilosula soaked in water has a good effect.