The older you get, the more meat you should eat?

Nowadays, many elderly people do not like to eat meat, even less meat than young people who are on a diet, and they do not eat meat to lose weight.

They don't eat meat to lose weight. The body's various functions and organs have all begun to deteriorate, with the most obvious being the decline in metabolic and digestive functions.

Older people themselves feel that their digestive functions are declining as they age, so they bear the brunt of reducing their meat intake.

In addition to this, many people who are not particularly busy in their old age will seek a healthier lifestyle by reducing their intake of fatty foods and becoming vegetarian for a long time.

I was on outpatient duty and when I saw this grandmother, I felt that her breath was faint and she was pale, and it was her partner who helped her to the clinic.

The examination showed that in addition to anemia, she was also obviously malnourished, with sunken eyes and weak limbs.

I carefully asked Grandma Li about her recent nutritional status and what she was usually eating to find out the reason for this.

"I was a bit fat before I retired, and when I had my annual medical check-up, the doctor said my blood lipids were high and suggested I lose a bit of weight", the old grandfather said, looking at Grandma Li apologetically: "The old woman felt sorry for me alone so she accompanied me on my vegetarian diet, saying it was for my health".

"I never thought I'd drag her down with me!" The old man was also very chagrined.

In fact, for the elderly, a proper vegetarian diet is also beneficial to their health, but two elderly people do not have a comprehensive knowledge of hyperglycemia as a disease, which is why they blindly eat vegetarian food to achieve fat reduction.

From what we usually see and hear, there are many people other than Grandma Li who have also been vegetarian for a long time, more or less because they have been given some misinformation and see the advice to eat vegetarian as only vegetarian.

For people who are on a diet, vegetarianism can reduce the accumulation of fat and prevent obesity, as well as properly lighten the body's load.

There are even studies that show that eating vegetarians can also prevent the body's cells from becoming cancerous, as confirmed by foreign experts and also by domestic experts who collected a lot of data in the 1980s and found that those who ate vegetables more than 14 times in a week were much less likely to have cancerous cells than those who ate vegetables less than twice.

We need to have a sensible view on this matter of weight loss. Eating a vegetarian diet for a long time without meat intake to lose weight can lead to a deficiency of a certain element in our body.

The grandmother in the clinic was malnourished as a result of her long-term vegetarian diet, but our bodies still need most of the nutrients from meat, and every element has its place.

Although we can get some of the trace elements we need from vegetables, as mammals, we get them better from meat.

As the body's resistance decreases with age, eating meat may increase our metabolic burden. These are some of the types of meat that we recommend older people consume appropriately after the age of 55, which is good for our bodies.

I. The benefits of eating meat for our body

The older we get the more meat we eat, and the more we need to consume meat in a proper and high-quality way to ensure balanced nutrition for our body without increasing our body burden.

1. Meat contains the trace elements we need

100 g of pork contains 16.9 g of protein and 29.2 g of fat, which is relatively high, but after steaming the fat content of pork will be lost in large quantities, especially lean meat, we absorb very little fat content.

Pork also contains high levels of vitamin B, which helps the body to maintain normal metabolism. In addition to this pork contains many trace elements that our bodies need, such as potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, and iron, all of which are essential for our bodies.

Pork can also provide organic iron, iron can promote the production of red blood cells, so Chinese medicine says that pork can nourish Yin and moisten dryness, provide hemoglobin, and more meat can also make our complexion look rosy.

2, meat can also increase muscle

Some meat is rich in amino acids, for some need to increase the muscle of the exercise crowd, these meats are a very good choice, for example, beef, and beef lean meat more, not only can increase muscle, and the fat content is low.

And because the unsaturated fatty acids contained in these meats are more conducive to the body's metabolism out of the body, it reduces the accumulation of fat and prevents weight loss people from gaining fat.

Eating more meat, which contains iron than we get in the vegetables inside the iron is better absorbed, followed by the amino acids contained in the meat can also help the fitness crowd, and increase muscle energy.

3, eat meat can also improve the immune system

After the age of 55, people's body functions in all aspects are declining, and young people are also more prone to disease, Eating more meat can improve immunity.

Meat is rich in protein, which can help improve our body's immunity, but also with appropriate exercise, to promote absorption.

Older people's body functions are degenerating, more need to obtain energy from external assistance to supplement, they should ensure balanced nutrition, not a single intake of a particular kind of energy, the following kinds of we recommend that older people can be more intake.

Second, these kinds of meat more to eat to help the elderly nutrition balance

Eat more of these kinds of meat, from many aspects to ensure the intake of nutrition, more conducive to the elderly having a healthy body.

(1) Beef

Beef contains high protein, protein is our body tissue metabolism, cell renewal and cell tissue repair of the main raw materials, is also the body transport oxygen one of the main ways, is also the body immune cells are also required to participate in the protein.

In addition, protein is one of the main sources of energy and is the main raw material for the amino acids that regulate hormone levels in the body.

Iron in beef is organic iron, which is more easily absorbed by the body than the iron in vegetables, and iron is one of the main raw materials for the production of hemoglobin in the body.

Beef contains vitamin B, which is water-soluble and does not easily remain in our bodies, and vitamin B is also involved in most of our body's metabolic functions, and secondly, it can promote protein synthesis, which improves immunity while not increasing the body's burden.

(2) Chicken

Chicken is high in protein and low in fat, so it is less of a digestive burden for the elderly, and secondly, it is less expensive, making it more suitable for the elderly who love to save.

Chinese medicine says that chicken warms the middle of the body and benefits the q, which is a very common material that Chinese medicine practitioners like to use in joint dietary therapy. Chicken contains very low cholesterol and is not prone to gallstones and other diseases after use.

Chicken also contains a large amount of vitamin A, which can prevent the deterioration of the eyesight of elderly people after the age of 55.

Secondly, chicken also contains the trace element selenium, which can clean out the free radicals in our body, and has the effect of anti-sun aging, and can prevent cancer.

(3) Fish

Fish is a type of food that contains high protein, which can increase the immunity of the elderly.

Unsaturated fatty acids can help the elderly reduce triglycerides and serum cholesterol, both of which are the main indicators of hyperglycemia, so the elderly can eat more fish, which can properly alleviate the occurrence of hyperglycemia.

Fish itself has a softer flesh and will be more friendly to elderly people with a lack of teeth, which can be absorbed more quickly and the metabolic burden is still relatively small.

Fish, beef, and chicken all contain high levels of protein, which can help to strengthen the immune system of older people, and secondly, meat contains trace elements that are more beneficial for older people to absorb the vegetables contained within.

The older we get, the more we need to eat good meat. In addition to ensuring our nutritional balance, there are many substances in meat that we cannot get by eating vegetables and that our bodies need.

Some foreign experts say that eating vegetables is more conducive to a long life, many older people take it out of context and only eat vegetables, just like Grandma Li who only ate vegetarian food to encourage her partner to lose fat, which led to malnutrition in the end.

A balanced nutritional intake is more conducive to a long and healthy life.

Apart from taking extra care of what they eat, older people should also take care of all aspects of their health.

Firstly, older people should have regular annual medical check-ups to prevent illnesses from becoming irreversible when they occur.

Secondly, elderly people should keep proper exercise and exercise all aspects of their body functions, especially those suffering from cardiovascular diseases. Proper activities can keep the body and mind relaxed and lubricate the blood vessels to prevent them from becoming blocked and causing heart attacks and brain attacks.

The older you get, the more you should not be a vegetarian. A balanced nutritional intake is a key to maintaining good health, not just being a vegetarian makes you healthy and you end up becoming like Grandma Li who came to the hospital and suffered unnecessarily.