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What if the old man loses weight?

What if the old man loses weight? This article introduces: How should old friends eat when they are thin? What are the diet methods? Let's take a closer look.

(1) Find out the reason, whether there are potential chronic diseases, such as tumors, diabetes, chronic liver diseases, chronic gastrointestinal diseases, etc., increase consumption or affect absorption, and then treat them in time. Digestion and absorption disorders caused by aging, tooth loss, taste loss, etc. Should be increased, chopped and stewed to stimulate appetite, easy to digest and absorb.

(2) Increase the intake of protein, especially animal protein. At this time, it is not appropriate to care too much about cholesterol content and control meat food.

(3) Sweets are easy to absorb and high in fat and calories, so you should eat more appropriately.

(4) Foods rich in cellulose not only occupy the volume, but also affect the absorption of other nutrients, which should be properly controlled.

(5) Eat more meals every day and try to increase the total food intake.

(6) Supplementing multivitamins and regulating the function of the whole body organs. Add some zinc properly to improve appetite.

Examples of angular dietary prescriptions:

(1) Shenqi Stewed Chicken: Codonopsis pilosula 30g, Astragalus membranaceus 30g, hen 150g, 5 pieces of red dates and 3 pieces of ginger, put in a bowl, cover with water, stew for two hours, season with salt and monosodium glutamate, eat meat and drink soup. Suitable for people with thin body, shortness of breath, spontaneous sweating and easy to catch a cold.

(2) Danggui Ginger Mutton Soup: Danggui 30g, Ginger 15g, Mutton 150g. Add a proper amount of water, cook until the mutton is rotten, add salt to taste, eat meat and drink soup. Suitable for people with emaciated body, dark complexion, dizziness, palpitation and insomnia, numbness of limbs and fear of cold.

(3) Soft-shelled turtle bone marrow soup: soft-shelled turtle 1 piece (viscera removed, claws removed), pig spinal cord 150g, and 3 slices of ginger, one of which is put into a pot, and appropriate amount of water is added, then boiled with strong fire, seasoned with salt and served with soup. Suitable for people with thin body, upset and fever, backache and nocturnal emission, weakness of feet, dry mouth and sore throat.