Prevention of dyspepsia in the elderly

summary

In fact, the digestive system of the elderly is gradually degenerating. One of the problems that elderly friends encounter in diet is indigestion. What should I eat? What can't you eat? We should pay attention to what we should pay attention to in the diet, so as to avoid repeated indigestion.

Prevention of dyspepsia in the elderly

First: eat the staple food first - the staple food is a kind of "natural digestive medicine". Rice, noodles and other staple foods are carbohydrates, easy to be digested, and easy to make people feel full. Eating first can avoid eating too much, and it is also conducive to stimulate saliva to secrete amylase, digest food, and then stimulate gastric acid secretion, enhance the digestive ability of the stomach. Roughage is the first choice of staple food, it is rich in fiber, can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, but also let the excess fat out of the body.

Second: don't eat fruit and drink tea immediately after a meal - eating fruit immediately after a meal will be blocked by the food eaten first, resulting in the abnormal digestion of fruit. And drink tea immediately after meals, tannic acid in tea will affect protein absorption, increase the burden on the stomach. Drink tea after meal should be after gastric emptying, about 2 hours after meal.

Third: dinner time should not be too late - dinner time has a great impact on the quality of sleep. Generally speaking, after dinner, it takes the stomach three hours to digest the food and finally empty it. If the dinner is too late and the stomach is still working hard to digest food, people will go to bed. The quality of sleep is often poor, and it is easy to have insomnia and dreams. As the best sleep time is around 22 PM, so dinner is best arranged between 18 and 19 PM.

matters needing attention

Compared with breakfast and Chinese food, it is better to eat less dinner. There is no other activity in the evening, or the time of eating is late. If you eat too much dinner, it can cause cholesterol rise, stimulate the liver to produce more low density and very low density lipoprotein, and induce arteriosclerosis. If you eat too much dinner for a long time, it can repeatedly stimulate a large amount of insulin secretion, which often leads to premature failure of insulin beta cells So as to bury the root of diabetes. In addition, dinner can make the elderly stomach bulge, causing pressure on the surrounding organs, stomach, intestines, liver, gallbladder, pancreas and other organs in the postprandial nervous work will transmit information to the brain, causing brain activity, and spread to other parts of the cerebral cortex, inducing insomnia in the elderly.