Diet of the elderly with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

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Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease is the general name of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Also known as the "three high disease" of "wealth disease". According to the statistics of Ministry of health in 2007, about 50% of diabetic patients have a variety of elderly diseases such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia. Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are characterized by "high incidence rate, high disability rate, high mortality rate, high recurrence rate, and many complications".

Diet of the elderly with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

One: control the total calories, maintain the standard weight: the calories in the diet, mainly supply the body's needs of heat consumption. The elderly have less activity and lower energy needs than young and middle-aged people. If they don't control their food intake, they will gain weight (body fat accumulation) and increase the burden of heart. Proper intake of calories is based on maintaining the ideal weight. The method is to pay attention to proper physical exercise, measure the weight every half month, and adjust the diet according to the weight.

Second, the quality of protein should be appropriate: protein is the most important nutrient to maintain physiological function. The elderly need a certain amount of high-quality protein, so the quality of protein intake should be appropriate.

Third: strictly limit the total amount of fat and saturated fatty acid intake: hyperlipidemia is one of the main risk factors of coronary heart disease, so we should pay attention to prevent excessive intake of high-fat foods, such as fat meat, a large number of lean pork, egg yolk, cream, etc., cooking should also try to use vegetable oil, less animal oil.

matters needing attention

The importance of low-fat and low calorie diet for the elderly should be emphasized, and the foods rich in protein, vitamins, trace elements and crude fiber should be given priority to. In recent years, some people think that low salt diet can reduce the degree of osteoporosis, restore the stiffness of the artery, and emphasize the importance of low salt diet in the prevention and treatment of hypertension. Therefore, low salt diet is also one of the conditions for the prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in the elderly.