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Four elderly people do not digest food nutrition

There are many elderly people attach importance to tonic, but because of the decline of old digestive function, and some food with high nutritional value, eat not only cause indigestion, and even physical health also causes harm. The following four food elderly should not eat.

1. Tremella

Tremella nutrient-rich, as well as kidney, lungs, fluid and so effective, popular old favorite, but in clinical practice occur because of improper eating fungus is also more common intestinal obstruction in the elderly. This is because the elderly poor digestive function, Tremella not good digestion, eating too much if one or more consecutive meals, it will cause intestinal obstruction, manifested as paroxysmal abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, constipation, anal stop the exhaust, and some seriously ill or require surgery.

2. Roe

Caviar is a nutrient-rich foods, including plenty of protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins and riboflavin, also rich in cholesterol, is the human brain and bone marrow of good supplements, nourishing agent, but the elderly as much as possible Eat less, because the roe is rich in cholesterol, the elderly eat more than good.

In addition roe, though small, is difficult to cook ripe, eat it very difficult to digest, easy to indigestion after eating, resulting in diarrhea. Therefore, roe to cook cooking cooking, eating and do not eat too much.

3. Sunflower seeds

Although sunflower seeds nutritious and delicious, but not suitable for the elderly.

First, high oil content sunflower seeds, and most of these fats are unsaturated fatty acids, eating too much will not only consume the body of choline, so that the body fat metabolism disorders, fat deposition in the liver and affect the normal function of liver cells, causing liver dysfunction, also easily lead to connective tissue proliferation, and even induced liver necrosis or cirrhosis.

Secondly, some sunflower seeds when used in frying spices such as cinnamon, pepper and other stomach has a certain stimulating effect.

4. Tofu

Tofu is a common food, and its high nutritional value, but older people also should not eat.

Tofu contains very rich in protein, but also contains phytic acid and flatulence factors, if an excessive consumption will not only hinder the body’s absorption of iron, protein is also easily lead to indigestion, abdominal distention, diarrhea and other symptoms. In addition, the production of tofu, soy contains a substance called saponin, which not only can prevent atherosclerosis, but also promote excretion of iodine in the body, causing the body’s iodine deficiency.

Chinese medicine, tofu Partial cold, so cold stomach and vulnerable diarrhea, abdominal distension, spleen, and often there are those who have nocturnal emission of kidney deficiency should not eat.

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