Four nutritional diets that are difficult for the elderly to digest

Many elderly people nowadays attach importance to tonic, but due to the decline in digestive function of the elderly, some foods with high nutritional value will not only cause indigestion but also cause harm to their health. The following four kinds of food elderly should not eat more.

1, Tremella

Tremella is rich in nutrients, but also has kidney, lung, Sheng Jin and other effects, quite popular with the elderly, but in clinical practice, due to improper eating white fungus and intestinal obstruction occurs in older people are more common. This is because the digestive function of the elderly is poor, and white fungus is not very easy to digest. If one eats too much food or eats multiple meals at a time, it will cause intestinal obstruction, manifested as abdominal paroxysmal cramps, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension and constipation. Anus stop exhaust, etc., some of them are in serious condition and even require surgery.

2, caviar

Caviar is a nutrient-rich food, which contains a lot of protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins, and riboflavin. It is also rich in cholesterol. It is a good supplement and nourishing agent for the human brain and bone marrow, but the old man wants to Eat less, because the fish is rich in cholesterol, the elderly eat more useless.

In addition, although the fish roe is very small, it is difficult to cook well, it is difficult to digest it, and it is easy to indigestion after eating, causing diarrhea. Therefore, cook the fish and cook it thoroughly. Don't overeat when eating.

3, sunflower seeds

Although sunflower is rich in nutrition and delicious, it is not suitable for the elderly.

First of all, sunflower seeds have high oil content, and most of these fats and oils are unsaturated fatty acids. Excessive consumption not only consumes choline in the body, but also causes fat metabolism in the body. Fat deposits in the liver, affecting the normal function of liver cells and causing liver dysfunction. Also easy to cause connective tissue proliferation, and even induce liver necrosis or liver cirrhosis.

Second, some sunflower flavors used in frying, such as cinnamon and pepper have a certain stimulating effect on the stomach.

4, tofu

Tofu is a common food, its nutritional value is high, but the elderly should not eat more.

Tofu contains very rich protein, but also contains phytic acid and flatulence factor. If you eat too much at a time, it will not only hinder the body's absorption of iron, but also easily cause protein indigestion, abdominal distention, diarrhea and other symptoms. In addition, soybeans that make tofu contain a substance called saponin that not only prevents atherosclerosis, but also promotes the excretion of iodine in the body, resulting in iodine deficiency in the human body.

Chinese medicine believes that tofu is cold, so those with cold stomach and diarrhea, bloating, spleen deficiency, and kidney deficiency who often appear to have nocturnal emission should not eat too much.

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