The rising demand for health care products is not only due to the increasing awareness of public health care at present, but also some influencing factors brought about by this year's epidemic. Everyone's health awareness has changed from passive treatment in the past to active prevention now. This year, from traditional festivals such as Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, the choice of holiday gifts has also been upgraded from nutritional products such as red envelopes or ordinary milk to higher-end and more targeted health care products.
What nutrition the elderly eat depends on their needs.
In fact, it is best to choose nutritional products according to the specific needs of the elderly. According to the current physical condition of the elderly, there are some very common and prominent problems, such as boring legs and feet, osteoporosis, muscle loss and so on. In fact, these aspects are closely related to muscles, because leg muscles are the key factors to assist skeletal joints and meridians to complete walking and jumping. The loss of leg muscles will lead to the weakening of leg strength, and the protection of bone joints will also be reduced accordingly. Therefore, once the leg muscles are seriously lost, the aging speed of the human body will accelerate, and even the elderly will be ill in bed for a long time, leading to organ failure.
Most middle-aged and elderly people will face the problem of muscle loss or atrophy, so middle-aged and elderly people need to prepare some nutrients to promote muscle health in addition to protein and other nutrients in their daily diet. Some clinical nutritionists have pointed out that adding 3 grams of HMB(β- hydroxy-β-methyl butyrate calcium) every day is helpful to prevent and reduce muscle loss.
HMB is a natural metabolite of leucine, which is an essential amino acid for human body. About 5% of leucine in diet is oxidized to HMB, which is the main metabolite of leucine and can effectively prevent the decomposition of muscle protein. Compared with leucine, HMB is more effective in reducing protein decomposition rate of muscle. The human body can naturally produce HMB, which also exists in some foods, such as beef, eggs and broccoli. However, it is difficult to maintain muscle health by relying on natural production and food intake, so HMB nutrition can be taken to supplement HMB.
Now HMB has begun to emerge in medicine, mainly because of its ability to promote muscle production. Clinically, HMB is mainly used for acute muscle loss caused by muscle atrophy, muscle loss caused by diseases of the elderly and severe trauma. Therefore, HMB, as a food raw material, is very suitable for nutrition. It can be used not only as a nutritional supplement, but also in food fields such as beverages, dairy products, chocolate products, sweets, baked goods, sports and nutritious foods.
Autumn and winter are nourishing seasons. What nutrition should the elderly eat? At the end of the year, not giving some effective scientific nutrition to the elderly, such as the nutrition containing HMB mentioned above, is of great help to prevent muscle loss and improve the immunity of the elderly. I believe these are more practical and healthier than giving other things. In addition, in addition to properly supplementing nutrition, it is also a major principle for the elderly to adhere to necessary physical exercise to maintain good health.