"Light diet" over-beware of malnutrition

With the increasing awareness of health preservation, many elderly people pay great attention to the issue of "nutritious diet"

The 70-year-old Liu Apo is very concerned about her daily diet.

The nutritionist reminds that the elderly should not excessively "light diet" or even fall into a misunderstanding.

It’s not good to eat too lightly

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 dietary mistakes

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Liu Jia believes that although vegetarian food can also be combined with a balanced diet, it is difficult for the elderly to eat all kinds of beans and nuts because of their poor teeth, and poor gastrointestinal function and appetite.

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Many elderly people are very resistant to oil, cooking food too much and less oil, even wishing not to put a drop of oil

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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 of them cause constipation due to excessive intake of crude fiber

Malnutrition is harmful

With the improvement of living standards, many elderly people worry about overnutrition, but they do not realize that the incidence of malnutrition also increases with age

Malnutrition harms the health of the elderly over time.

How to preliminarily judge whether there is a nutritional risk for the elderly at home? Liu Jia reminded that if the elderly in the family have involuntary weight loss, reaching a weight loss of ≥10% within 6 months (or within unknown time) or a weight loss of ≥5% within 3 months, they should be vigilant; those with underlying diseases For the elderly, compared with the daily food intake, the oral intake of food is reduced, so they should go to the nutrition department for nutrition screening and evaluation as soon as possible.