What should the elderly pay attention to in their summer diet?

　　elderly What to pay attention to in summer diet ? Many netizens asked this question. The weather is hot in summer. If you don't pay attention to diet and nutrition, you will have symptoms such as dizziness and weakness in the limbs, which will cause your physical fitness to decline rapidly. Experts suggest that you should pay attention to "three more and three less" in your summer diet to help improve symptoms such as loss of appetite and decreased digestive function.

　　Eat more fruits and vegetables: tomato , loofah, pumpkin, cucumber, watermelon, etc., all have the effect of cooling and dispelling heat, so you should eat more. Take watermelon as an example. Watermelon has the effects of "quenching thirst, relieving heat, treating sore throat, relaxing Qi, curing blood dysentery, detoxifying alcohol, and containing juice to treat aphthous sores." Watermelon can not only be eaten raw, but can also be used to stir-fry, make soup or stuffing with its rind. It is also very light and delicious.

　　Drink more soup: Drinking more soup in summer can adjust taste, replenish body fluids and enhance appetite. Summer soups can be cooked according to personal tastes and preferences, such as broth, bone soup, egg drop soup, mung bean soup, kelp soup, tofu soup, seaweed soup, tomato soup, winter melon and rice soup, etc., which can achieve the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, anti-aging and curing diseases.

　　Eat more bitter vegetables: You should eat more bitter foods in summer. Bitterness can not only stimulate people's taste nerve , it can increase people's appetite, whet their appetite, and has pharmacological effects such as laxative heat in the five internal organs, diuretic relief, clearing away heat and detoxification, reducing inflammation and reducing fever, promoting blood circulation, and relaxing blood vessels.

　　Eat less greasy food: The diet in summer should be light and moderate. Eating a lot of greasy food will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, causing a large amount of blood to stay in the gastrointestinal tract, and the blood transported to the brain will be relatively reduced. This will cause abdominal distension, no desire to eat, and the body will feel more tired.

　　Eat less sugar: In summer, if a large amount of sugar enters the body, it will increase blood sugar. When blood sugar is too high, on the one hand, it will promote the formation of sweat-contaminated cells. skin Bacterial growth can easily cause skin inflammations such as boils, prickly heat, and carbuncles.； On the other hand, a large amount of acidic substances will be produced, breaking the acid-base balance of the blood, causing the body to become acidic, thereby reducing immunity and weakening resistance.

　　Eat less cold food: The weather is hot in summer. Although cold food can temporarily relieve the heat, eating cold food will cause the mouth to be irritated by the cold, which can easily cause the salivary glands, tongue taste nerves, and periodontal nerves to rapidly cool down, and sometimes even lead to paralysis.； It will irritate the throat and cause adverse reactions such as pharyngitis or toothache. It will also irritate the spleen and stomach, affect the secretion of gastric juice, cause loss of appetite, and cause indigestion, anorexia, abdominal pain, etc. distended pain、diarrhea gastrointestinal tract disease。

　　Warm reminder: Many elderly people must pay attention to dietary restraint in summer, because the intestines of the elderly are inherently fragile, so they must eat lightly in summer.