"Eat Wrong, Life Changes": 5 Diet Groups That Older People Should Reduce / Bypass

# CapCut✨ "Eat Wrong, Life Changes": 5 Diet Groups That Older People Should Reduce / Bypass

For the elderly, the modification of eating habits is particularly important, as the body's working systems begin to deteriorate, digestion, metabolism, and risk of chronic diseases increase. Reducing or bypassing certain foods can improve health.

In summary, the food groups that older persons should reduce or bypass are as follows:

1. 🧂 Tasterful food (extremely sweet, extremely salty, oily)

- Extreme Salty / High Sodium Tastes: High Sodium Foods such as Salty Seasonings (Fish Juice, Soy Sauce, Salt, Seasoning Sauce), Processed Foods, Canned Foods, Marinated Foods (e.g., Clavicle, Salted Fish, Lettuce)

- Effects: Increased risk of hypertension and burden on the kidneys, whose performance decreases with age. Excessive sodium exposure can cause edema.

- Super Sweet / High Sugar Flavor: All kinds of sweets (cakes, Thai sweets, candies, ice cream), sweetened drinks, juices (higher sugar than fresh fruits)

-Effects: Increases the risk of diabetes and causes weight gain. It also damages dental and bone health.

- High Fat / Oily Arranged: Fried Food, Oil-intensive Stir-fried Food, Addicted Meat, Trans Fat Food (Margarine, Fast Food)

- Effects: Difficult to digest, easy to flatulence / tighten stomach, increased levels, high blood lipids (cholesterol), risk for cardiovascular diseases, including lipid obstruction.

2. 🥓 Processed food and semi-finished food

- Sample: Sausage, Meatballs, Yeo Pig, Tong, Instant Noodles, Canned Food

- Effects: These foods are usually high in sodium (for food preservation), high in fat, may contain preservatives, and flavoring chemicals, flavors, odors, which are not good for long-term health and low in nutritional value compared to fresh foods.

3. 🍲 Difficult to digest

- Examples: sticky meat (e.g. tendon-addicted beef), food with too coarse fiber residue, or oil-rich fried food.

-Effects: The elderly have reduced digestive fluid secretion, and slower gastric and intestinal movements. Eating a hard-to-digest diet will cause symptoms, bloating, diarrhea, stiffness, and possibly constipation.

4. 🥃 Alcohol and caffeine (in large quantities)

Alcoholic beverages:

-Effects: Increased risk of hypertension, cirrhosis, and multiple cancers. It also increases the risk of bad balance accidents in the elderly.

Caffeine (coffee, tea): The amount should be limited.

- Effects: May interfere with sleep and cause the heart to beat fast.

5. 🥭 Very sweet and high-volume fruit.

- Example: durian, longan, ripe mango

- Effects: Although it is a useful fruit, it is very high in sugar, which can affect the blood glucose levels of the elderly who are diabetic or at risk of diabetes. Dosage should be limited and fruit with unsweetness and high fiber should be selected instead.

- In summary, eating choices that are mild to the digestive system (soft, easy to digest), unorganized taste (reduce sweet, oily, salty) and emphasize high nutritional value (good protein, variety of vegetables, good fat) will help the elderly to have a better quality of life and reduce their risk of diseases.# Aging food # How to eat, look younger than real age # Eat old # Good health that wants to share