(1) I am full and hungry. Eating too much is harmful to health, and malnutrition is also harmful to health. "Bao Puzi" said: "Health depends on diet, but diet makes you drunk and strong, full and strong, and there is nothing that does not harm your health."
Du Fu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, died of a sumptuous roast beef sent by Leiyang county magistrate. During the Shunkang period of the Qing Dynasty, Ma Qi, a senior minister of the household, lived with his grandfather IV, including five centenarians, and Ma Qi himself died at the age of 88. It is said that the Ma family is mainly good at diet, insisting that "breakfast is light, lunch is thick and full, and dinner needs less". But some people eat too little because they are eager to lose weight, which seriously damages their health. This is not desirable. The health motto says, "If you are full, you will not die without illness." Food restriction can reduce the burden of gastrointestinal tract and organs, improve immunity, reduce diseases and prolong life.
(2) vegetarian food. Can not be absolutely vegetarian or non-vegetarian, should be reasonably matched. Only a light vegetarian diet is good for health. The first of the four cornerstones of health is "reasonable diet". It is right for the elderly to focus on vegetarian and light diets. The food is low in fat and cholesterol, and can effectively prevent or slow down the occurrence and development of common diseases such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and fatty liver. But you can't absolutely refuse to eat meat. Because fat and cholesterol are also indispensable nutrients for human body, such as a variety of unsaturated fatty acids, which not only strengthen the brain, but also protect the heart, and cholesterol plays an important role in anti-cancer. It can be seen that vegetarian food is better with vegetarian food, supplemented by vegetarian food.
(3) Dynamic and static. "Health Motto" said: "Sedentary, easy to hurt blood gas, brain should be cautious; If you play too much, it is easy to quit your internal organs and physical strength. " Therefore, it is neither painful nor itchy to say that there is movement nor stillness. Scientists from NASA have confirmed that a person will lose the maximum muscle strength of 1/5 after three days of inactivity. A report in Zhejiang province shows that the immune function of people who exercise is obviously improved, and the incidence rate is only 1.9%, while the incidence rate of people who lack exercise reaches 1 1. 1%. However, exercise must be moderate. Overloaded exercise accelerates the "wear and tear" of some organs in the body, causing diseases and shortening life span.
(4) Sleep more and sleep less. Ancient health care experts believed that "lack of sleep is a big problem for the elderly." Some people put forward the theory of "sleep for health", thinking that good sleep can prolong life, but the more sleep, the better. The American Heart Association found that people who sleep 10 hours a night are twice as likely to die of heart disease as those who sleep only 7 hours, and three and a half times as likely to die of stroke. As the saying goes, "Early to bed and early to rise, nothing bothers you" is reasonable. Lack of sleep is harmful to health, which not only affects work and study, but also affects physical and mental health and causes various diseases.
But too much sleep is also harmful. Too much sleep, the body's various functions are sluggish, and it will get sick over time.
It can be seen that sleep is indispensable but not greedy.
(5) indulgence and abstinence. Many emperors in the past dynasties did not live long, which was related to their indulgence. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, said, "If you indulge your lust, you will eventually find morning dew. If you get well, you will get sick, and if you get well, you will die. " In the Ming Dynasty's Eight Records of Health Preservation, it was said: "Harmony of Yin and Yang, moderate connection, can prolong life." A survey of 600 people by American researchers found that keeping active sex life for the elderly helps to maintain vitality and strong memory for a long time. If the elderly give up sexual relations, their intelligence will decline rapidly. Obviously, indulgence is harmful to health, as is abstinence. Abstinence is undoubtedly the best choice.
(6) Happiness and sadness. Some elderly people often feel depressed because they have no spiritual sustenance after retirement, which is extremely unfavorable to their health. "Soul Pivot" said: "Sadness makes the heart move, and the heart moves the five internal organs." If you can participate in social interaction through various forms, such as playing poker, chess and other entertainment games, it will help to eliminate loneliness and increase the fun of life. But some people indulge in it all day, leading to mental imbalance and even sudden death under the mahjong table, which is even more tragic. As "Health Motto" said: "Entertainment is moderate, and if you don't control it, you will be exhausted; Happiness is measured, and if it is lost, it will be extremely sad. "
(7) hot and cold. Cold water bath is a good way to keep healthy. The stimulation of low-temperature cold water can improve the excitability of human nervous system, enhance substance metabolism and the activities of various organ systems, accelerate breathing, strengthen heartbeat, accelerate blood circulation, raise blood pressure, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis, and enhance the body's temperature regulation function. At the same time, under the mechanical impact of water on the skin and the chemical action of some minerals on the human body, it can also increase the resistance of the skin and greatly reduce the incidence of skin diseases. Hot bath and sauna can dilate skin pores and capillaries under the action of high temperature, effectively dissipate heat in the body, and take away some dirt and toxic substances existing on the skin surface, and the health care effect is also quite good.
Whether it is better to take a cold bath or a hot bath depends on people's physique and habits, but the most basic daily water use should be folk proverbs: washing your face with cold water, beauty care, brushing your teeth with warm water, and washing your feet with hot water, such as taking tonic medicine.