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Honey

Honey is very suitable for the physiological needs of the elderly nutritional treasures, it not only provides energy and nutrients for the body, but also for the body to provide a most suitable to save the protein of the carbohydrates, which may be a lot of elderly people like to eat the honey of the theoretical basis. Honey strengthens the resistance of the elderly and has a preventive effect on age-related diseases. Regular consumption by the elderly can prevent and control coughs, insomnia, vascular disease, indigestion, gastrointestinal ulcers, constipation and dysentery.

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Vegetables and fruits

Because vegetables and fruits are rich in vitamins, minerals, but also rich in dietary fiber, which can prevent constipation, but also reduce the harmful substances in the feces on the intestinal wall of the damage, to prevent intestinal cancer.

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Starchy food

Starchy food can inhibit intestinal cancer in two ways: First, when starch enters into the intestine, a series of reactions will help to increase the feces, prompting the colon to excrete, and accelerating the discharge of carcinogenic metabolites from the body. Secondly, starch will produce a large amount of butyrate by the action of fermentation enzymes in the intestine. Experiments have proved that butyrate is an effective cancer cell growth inhibitor, which can directly inhibit colon bacterial reproduction and prevent the production of potentially carcinogenic cells in the lining of the colon.

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Grains

In addition to cereal breads, staple foods such as noodles, cold noodles, pancakes, steamed dumplings, and rice made from buckwheat are also good choices. B vitamins, vitamin E-rich grains and cereals porridge, such as Lapa congee, eight treasures of lotus seed porridge, lotus leaf porridge and so on is more suitable for middle-aged and elderly people to eat.

Fruits for the elderly

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Oranges

Oranges are rich in Vitamin C, which helps to reverse sunlight and pollution-induced skin damage, reduces wrinkles, and improves the overall texture of the skin.

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Pears

Pears are the seasonal fruit of the fall and winter, because the dietary fiber in pears is much more than other fruits, so consuming it will help us to discharge carcinogens in the colon, thus reducing the chances of us developing colon cancer.

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Apples

The antioxidant quercetin contained in apples improves the overall health of the nervous system. Apples help protect nerve cells from oxidative stress, reducing the risk of people developing cognitive disorders.

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Bananas

The dietary fiber, potassium, vitamin C, and vitamin B6 found in bananas work in tandem to ensure that the heart works optimally.

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Grapes

Grapes are rich in resveratrol, which is particularly effective in burning fat. Researchers at the University of Georgia found that resveratrol causes fat cells to break down 2.46 times faster than normal.

Soup for the elderly

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Rice soup

Rice soup contains a certain amount of nutrients, the elderly, such as diarrhea and dehydration, drink frequently, to alleviate the symptoms of early recovery has a certain significance.

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Mung bean soup

Mung bean taste sweet, cool, into the heart, the stomach, can clear summer heat, water dampness, can cure the summer fever or self-consciousness of internal heat and injuries in the summer of all kinds of diseases. Summer often drink green bean soup, can cool summer.

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Vegetable soup

A variety of fresh vegetables contain a large number of alkaline substances and easily dissolved in the soup, often drink vegetable soup (a variety of fresh vegetables alternately), can make the body of the blood is a normal alkaline state, to maintain the pH balance, to prevent the blood from becoming acidic, but also increase the intake of vitamins, minerals and fiber, the human body's health is very beneficial.

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Tomato and egg soup

Tomatoes are sweet and sour, but also rich in a variety of vitamins, can be eaten raw and cooked, both fruits and vegetables eggs not only contain a high level of good protein, but also the digestive absorption rate of up to 95% or more, it is a good supplemental protein. The two do soup, yellow and red, both beautiful and delicious, is the ideal tonic.

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Fish soup

Fish soup is delicious, promote appetite, contains high amino acids and a large number of unsaturated fatty acids, has a healthy body and brain function. At the same time there is the prevention and treatment of dementia and cardiovascular disease in the elderly.

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Bone broth

People to middle-aged and old age, organs and tissues of the body began to gradually aging, coupled with microcirculatory disorders, prone to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Most of the elderly are deficient in calcium and suffer from varying degrees of osteoporosis. Bone broth is not only rich in calcium, but also contains special nutrients and collagen, which can unclog the microcirculation and replenish calcium.

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Winter Melon Job's tears soup

Take 50 grams of Job's tears, 500 grams of winter melon and drink the soup, can clear the heat, spleen diuretic, fire detoxification, is a good summer soup.