With the increasing awareness of health preservation, many elderly people pay great attention to the issue of a "nutritious diet".
The "light diet" recommended on the Internet, eating more vegetables and less meat for three meals a day all the year round can cause mild anemia and severe malnutrition.
The nutritionist reminds that the elderly should not overly "light diet" or even fall into a misunderstanding in their daily life, and be careful that it can cause varying degrees of malnutrition for a long time.
Eating too light is not good
It is said that the elderly should have a light diet when they are older, but many elderly people have over-understood the concept of "light diet" and have gone into eating mistakes. Many elderly people need to pay attention to their diet due to diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, osteoporosis, anemia, etc. However, due to a lack of nutritional knowledge, they are often "wrong taboos". In daily life, common nutritional misunderstandings among the elderly include:
1. Eat too vegetarian
Although a vegetarian diet can also be combined with a balanced diet, the elderly cannot eat all kinds of beans and nuts due to poor teeth, poor gastrointestinal function, poor appetite, and insufficient intake of food types. Get adequate nutrition in your diet. Fish, poultry, eggs and lean meat are all animal foods and are a good source of human high-quality protein, lipids, fat-soluble vitamins, B vitamins and minerals and an important part of a balanced diet. Therefore, according to the nutritional needs of the elderly, try not to eat too vegetarian.
2. Less or no oil
Many elderly people are very resistant to oil, cooking food too much and less oil, even wishing not to put a drop of oil. Less oil also has a degree, because fat is an important source of human energy, can provide essential fatty acids, and at the same time is a solvent for fat-soluble vitamins. Vitamin E, vitamin A, vitamin D, and vitamin K require oil for digestion and absorption. Therefore, she recommends that in addition to the fat contained in the food itself, the elderly should control their daily cooking oil intake at 20-25 grams. Too high or low is not good for health.
3. Excessive intake of whole grains
Hearing that coarse grains are good for health, some elderly people go to extremes and eat coarse grains almost all at once, resulting in indigestion, and some constipation due to excessive intake of crude fiber. No matter how good whole grains are, the intake should be moderate, not more is better.
Malnutrition is harmful
With the improvement of living standards, many elderly people are worried about overnutrition, but they do not realize that the incidence of malnutrition increases with age. Many elderly patients suffer from malnutrition.
Malnutrition harms the health of the elderly over time. It can lead to varying degrees of loss of appetite, weight loss, and weakened immunity in the elderly, or weaken the therapeutic effect of the original disease, or even aggravate the condition in severe cases. Elderly malnutrition can also cause or aggravate sarcopenia, and then develop the debilitating syndrome, which reduces the ability of the elderly to live independently.
How to preliminarily judge whether there are nutritional risks for the elderly at home? If the elderly in the family have involuntary weight loss, a weight loss of ≥10% within 6 months (or within unknown time) or a weight loss of ≥5% within 3 months should cause vigilance; elderly people with underlying diseases should be vigilant. Compared with the food intake, the oral intake of food is reduced, so you should go to the nutrition department for nutrition screening and evaluation as soon as possible. Once malnutrition is found, it should be corrected in time.
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