New coronavirus "hunts down" middle-aged and elderly people? Teach you some tips to prevent it!

We know that middle-aged and elderly people are relatively more susceptible to this new coronavirus.

During the Chinese New Year, a joke circulated on the Internet:

In 2003, the susceptible people to SARS were young adults aged 20-37. In 2020 The susceptible group of new pneumonia is middle-aged and elderly people aged 35-60 years.

Judging from the time calculation, don’t these happen to be the same group of people? It’s just a pursuit...

Putting aside the overly imaginative conspiracy theories, there is actually an important realistic factor as to why middle-aged and elderly people are more likely to be knocked down by the virus, and that is that middle-aged and elderly people are more likely to be knocked down by the virus. People are generally malnourished and have poor immunity.

Yes, you heard it right. Although Chinese people generally have no worries about food and clothing, due to various reasons such as dietary structure, most middle-aged and elderly people actually live in the same structure for a long time. A state of sexual malnutrition.

The "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" issued by the Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention of the National Health and Family Planning Commission in 2016 mentioned: Although the dietary energy supply of Chinese residents is sufficient and the physical development and nutritional status have generally improved, the dietary structure of residents is still There are unreasonable phenomena.

Specifically, the consumption of beans and milk is low, the intake of fat is too much, the problem of malnutrition still exists in some areas, the problem of overweight and obesity is prominent, and chronic diseases related to dietary nutrition The threat to the health of our residents is becoming increasingly serious.

Fu Ping, chairman of the Geriatric Nutrition and Food Professional Committee of the Chinese Gerontological Society, also said:

In accordance with the internationally accepted malnutrition screening standards, my country has targeted patients in Beijing and Shanghai A survey on the nutritional status of people over 65 years old in five cities including Guangzhou, Chongqing and Chengdu found that more than 50% of people were malnourished.

These five cities are already cities with relatively good economic development and relatively high living standards, but the proportion of malnutrition is still so high.

Then, the situation in other regions is likely to be even more severe.

The reason why the elderly are malnourished is not only due to the degradation of physical hardware facilities leading to a decrease in absorptive capacity, but also because of major problems in dietary structure.

Although many elderly people have the financial means to eat well and drink well, they believe in a light diet and believe that eating too much meat can easily lead to cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure. Therefore, they stop eating due to choking and think that vegetable and white porridge is the healthiest thing. of.

Over a long period of time, it leads to insufficient nutritional intake.

Chang Cuiqing, chief physician of the Sports Nutrition Research Office of Peking University Third Hospital, said when analyzing the causes of malnutrition in the elderly:

The anabolism of the elderly is declining, but the catabolism is increasing. Increase. Therefore, if the diet is not well matched and simply too vegetarian, it will lead to malnutrition. The main cause of malnutrition is protein deficiency.

Protein is one of the important nutrients needed by the human body. If the elderly lack protein, it will affect the operation of the organs in the body, causing the body to feel tired and prone to fatigue.

At the same time, a lack of protein can also lead to reduced immunity, making it easier to get sick.

Many elderly people will fall into anxiety because of this, and they will easily become superstitious about those sky-high-priced health care products, and they will not hesitate to spend their money to carry bottles and jars of health care products home.

But in fact, many health products are more of a psychological tax on IQ. If you change your dietary concepts and improve your nutritional intake in your diet, you may be able to improve your physical condition to a great extent.

Therefore, everyone must understand: eating light and being vegetarian are two different things.

When most countries formulate dietary guidelines for residents, they believe that an appropriate amount of meat should be included.

Meat, as one of the important sources of high-quality protein, is an essential part of a balanced diet.

Blindly eating vegetarian food will lead to protein deficiency on the one hand.

Except for beans, the protein content in plant-based foods is generally very small. If you follow a vegetarian diet blindly, your protein intake will definitely not be enough.

Lack of protein will lead to decreased immunity and malnutrition.

Malnutrition is actually a chronic disease, and many physiological functions will decline as a result. In severe cases, it may even be life-threatening.

On the other hand, blindly eating vegetarian food can also lead to a lack of vitamin B12.

Vitamin B12 must be obtained from non-vegetarian food. A lack of vitamin B12 can cause great damage to the nervous system.

After reviewing a large amount of relevant information, I have summarized this for everyone. This is how a correct light diet should be done.

First of all, a light diet also requires a variety of ingredients.

You must have all the meat, fish, beans, milk, vegetables, fruits, grains, potatoes, etc. you should have.

However, when it comes to the choice of meat, it is recommended to eat less red meat and more white meat.

Common red meat includes muscles, offal and products of livestock such as pigs, cattle, and sheep, while white meat includes poultry and aquatic products.

In addition, light meals have requirements on cooking methods.

The main thing is to control the amount of oil, salt and sugar. You can choose steaming, boiling, stewing, cold dressing, etc., and try to avoid frying.

Finally, if the elderly want to strengthen their risk resistance, in addition to correcting their dietary concepts at the physical level and eating a reasonable and balanced diet, it is also necessary to consider strengthening risk protection.

To do risk protection, we must first analyze the risks.

For the elderly, there are two main risks. One is accidents such as bumps and falls. An accidental bump can cause injuries to the muscles and bones. The other is that older people will suffer from many chronic diseases. The probability of illness is relatively high.

For the former, we can transfer risks through accident insurance.

For the latter, we can transfer it through critical illness insurance and medical insurance.

However, it is generally not recommended for the elderly to purchase critical illness insurance because it is easy for premiums to be inverted.

The purpose of buying insurance is to leverage it. If the accumulated premiums are similar to the insured amount, then there is no need to worry.

As for medical insurance, the requirements for health notification are relatively high. Generally speaking, it is difficult to buy health insurance for those in their 50s.

In this case, we can choose the next best thing and choose cancer insurance.

Cancer insurance has relatively loose health notification requirements, but the coverage is not that wide.

But there is nothing you can do about it. When you are young, it is people who choose insurance, and when you are old, it is insurance that chooses people. ?

So again, buy insurance as early as possible.