People often say that when you are old, you are afraid of being fat, so it is better to be thinner. Is it better to be fat or thin for the elderly? What effect will it have on the body? In fact, it is more appropriate to keep the fat content of the elderly at around 20%. Being too fat or too thin will have a negative impact on your health. First, the influence of thinness of the elderly is 1. If the body is too thin, the physical quality of young people is much worse than that of normal people, not to mention the old people. If the old man is too thin, he will feel that he has no strength in life, and even he will gasp for a long time when he goes up the stairs. Moreover, due to poor resistance, such elderly people will be more likely to get sick and easily get sick during the flu season. 2. Older people who are prone to skin diseases and people who are too thin will also have an increased chance of skin diseases. When they get older, their skin will become slack, and too thin for older people will lead to thinning and drying of the skin, and the secretion of sebaceous glands will also decrease, making them more prone to skin diseases. 3. the emaciation of the elderly who lack nutrition is easy to cause malnutrition in the body. When the intake of nutrients is insufficient, it will lead to the lack of daily nutrients in the body. Although we advocate that the elderly should eat more fruits, vegetables and digestible food, it is also harmful to health to eat only vegetarian food. Second, the influence of obesity in the elderly 1. Most of the elderly people who lead to vascular diseases and obesity have abnormal indexes, and the risk of vascular diseases in this group of people will be greater. Because the blood vessels in their bodies are hard and brittle, if blood pressure rises easily, the blood vessels may rupture and endanger their lives. 2. Obesity in the elderly with hyperlipidemia will increase the chance of raising blood lipids, especially abdominal obesity. When the body's fat can't be digested and absorbed by the body, it will cause excess fat to accumulate in the body, and then enter various organs through blood circulation, making the blood lipid higher and higher. 3. leading to fatty liver when there is too much oil in the body, it will accumulate in various organs. If the metabolism of fat exceeds the load of the liver, it will deposit, so fatty liver is the most common among obese elderly people. This article was originally produced by the new media of "Panda Medicine", and the pictures came from the Internet. The author is cold, please do not reprint the disclaimer without authorization: the above content comes from the Internet, and the copyright belongs to the original author. If there is any infringement of your original copyright, please let us know and we will delete the relevant content as soon as possible.