have a healthy diet
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No matter what age, trying to avoid big fish and big meat is always the main tone. Light can ensure no irritation to gastrointestinal mucosa, thus maintaining the integrity and continuity of gastrointestinal mucosa function.
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At the same time, it is also very necessary to eat regularly and not overeat. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that deficiency and excess will cause imbalance of qi, blood, yin and yang. Eating too much or too little is not conducive to the maintenance of health.
Avoid supercooling and overheating.
In addition, the diet should not be too cold or too hot, too cold will hurt the stomach yang, too hot will hurt the stomach yin, both of which can cause chronic gastrointestinal diseases.
Drink wine/alcohol
As for drinking alcohol, generally speaking, patients with liver disease are absolutely forbidden to drink alcohol, but for patients with chronic gastroenteritis and hypertension, drinking alcohol will aggravate their illness and even endanger their lives.
drink water
Water is the source of life, accounting for more than 60% of the human body, but this does not mean drinking a lot of water every day. Everyone's drinking water should be determined according to their weight and health.
Drinking too much water will lead to water retention and yang weakness, especially for middle-aged and elderly patients. Deficiency of both lungs and kidneys and weakness of vitality will lead to decreased physical function and shortened life span.
Generally speaking, patients with liver cirrhosis, heart failure and kidney disease should consult a doctor and have regular check-ups when drinking water.
Exercise health
Life lies in exercise. Although exercise can enhance physical fitness, improper exercise is not only harmful to health, and some even cause diseases.
1, to exercise
For middle-aged and elderly people, we should first exercise, especially insist on exercise. Only by exercising for one day for many years can we achieve the cumulative effect of exercise.
2. Don't be too intense
Secondly, don't be too intense. Older people generally have loose bones and tendons that are not as tough as when they were young. Intense exercise can easily lead to dislocation, wear, relaxation, even inflammation and edema of these aged joints and bones.
At the same time, due to the aging of viscera, strenuous exercise easily exceeds the tolerance of viscera, leading to the onset of various diseases.
3. Recommend moderate and continuous exercise.
Such as Tai Ji Chuan, Baduanjin, and Health Stake. Exercise combined with breathing is not only beneficial to the circulation of qi and blood in limbs, but also has a regulating effect on qi, blood, yin and yang in viscera.
4. It is best to choose daytime exercise.
Especially at noon, the sun is strong. At night or early in the morning, the yin of the human body is strong and the yang is weak, because exercise is easy to disturb the operation of qi, blood, yin and yang of the elderly.
sleep
Middle-aged and elderly people's yin and yang qi and blood become worse, and their sleep will be worse, so they should sleep more. If they don't sleep well, they should go to the hospital as soon as possible.
The sleep of the elderly is related to the decline of brain cell function. It is more important to abide by the sleep rules, and at the same time worry less, not to be overworked and overstimulated. Because once sleep disorder, it is difficult to recover in a short time. In addition, keeping the sleeping environment comfortable and quiet is also a way to promote sleep.
Emotional health
Chinese medicine believes that people's emotions, sadness and fear will affect the viscera and yin and yang of the human body.
Clinically, irritable middle-aged and elderly people are not only more prone to discomfort, but also more difficult to treat. Middle-aged and elderly patients are relatively weak in qi, blood, yin and yang, and their balance is easily broken. Frequent and repeated emotional disorders can easily lead to the balance of yin and yang and the dysfunction of zang-fu organs. Thereby leading to the onset or aggravation of the disease.
Therefore, the elderly should maintain a peaceful attitude, be indifferent and empty, maintain an optimistic and positive attitude, and at the same time increase their tolerance for adverse events. Only in this way can they have a calm mind and keep a healthy mind.
Misunderstanding of health preservation
(1) Don't over-supplement: Over-supplement is a misunderstanding of modern health care for the elderly. Senile qi deficiency, yin and yang weakness, weakened transport, if excessive tonic, easy to breed phlegm-dampness, metaplasia and blood stasis, and then lead to meridian obstruction and viscera imbalance.
(2) Don't use drugs blindly: blindly, following the trend, and using drugs at will will lead to inaccurate drug use, increase the side effects of drugs, and delay the illness. For example, many people now use health care products such as Tianqi powder, Dendrobium, ginseng and so on for a long time, which damages the human yang.
(3) Don't blindly take food supplements: food supplements are not only economical, but also help to maintain health. However, the elderly are aging, and the choice of materials for food supplement, as well as the nature and dosage of food, should be decided according to their own health status. Don't follow the trend and eat supplements at will. For example, nowadays, many people eat fruits, beans, miscellaneous grains and honey in large quantities regardless of their personal physique, which will aggravate gastrointestinal diseases and damage human yang.