There are many elderly people who believe that the lighter the diet, the better, and even say that they can live long. Their basis is that vegetarian foods can reduce the burden on the stomach and stomach and are easy to digest. They can also prevent heart attacks.
However, it turns out that people who eat too much light food can reduce their physical fitness, but the disease is more likely to attack the body. Even elderly people with heart disease must not forcibly diet must be light. A survey of Buddhist disciples shows that vegetarianism does not equate health. Most of them suffer from varying degrees of malnutrition. The reason is mainly because they are vegetarians for a long period of time, so that the dietary intake of protein, fat and other serious shortages, can not meet the needs of the body's metabolism.
In vegetarian diets, except for the fact that beans are rich in protein, the protein content of other foods is low, and their nutritional value is low, and they are not easily digested, absorbed and utilized by the body. While foraging such as chickens, ducks, fish, and meat can become an important source of nutrition, providing a large number of high-quality proteins and essential fatty acids for the body's growth and development and metabolic processes.
In fact, the main factor in people's physical health is not whether they eat quail or vegetarian food, but rather what they eat and how much they eat. That is, whether the nutritional components required by the human body are all or not. The ingredients and their quantities taken from foods are exactly what people need in their physiology and life, and they are one of the most fundamental principles for proper nutrient intake. For example, in seafood, most of them contain very rich high-quality proteins, as well as a variety of unsaturated fatty acids that can lower blood lipids, as well as vitamins and trace elements that are easily lacking in the human body. It is of great benefit to eat seafood at a certain level.
In 1987, China conducted a systematic nutritional survey among more than 140,000 people in 28 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions across the country. It found that the intake of protein, calcium, and riboflavin (vitamin B2) in the national diet was inadequate. The best way to deal with this problem is to eat a moderate amount of food. The diet of white meat and vegetables can promote the metabolism of the human body, promote the complete structure of the tissue cells to improve disease resistance, and delay aging and enhance health and longevity.
The elderly can eat rice, flour or grains as their staple food and drink milk or milk daily. The dishes are based on lean meat (about 50 grams per 1-2 days), eggs, fresh fish and other foods and various vegetables.