What can the elderly eat to stay healthy and live longer?

　　1. Like to drink porridge

　　From the perspective of eating habits, all long-lived elderly people like to drink porridge. The famous economist Ma Yinchu and his wife Zhang Guijun, both centenarians, especially like to drink porridge.

　　Every morning, add 50 grams of oatmeal to 250 grams of boiling water and brew for 2 minutes to make porridge. This happens every day, without interruption. Mr. Su Juxian, a centenarian in Shanghai, drinks rice porridge for three meals a day, thin porridge in the morning and evening, and slightly thicker porridge at noon. Each meal is rationed to a shallow bowl, which has formed a habit. They said: "Eating porridge makes you feel comfortable and good for your body. ”

　　Doctors and health experts throughout the ages have highly recommended porridge for the elderly. "Suixiju Diet" says: "Porridge is the most nutritious food in the world. ”Porridge is easy to digest and absorb, can harmonize the stomach, nourish the spleen, clear the lungs and moisten the lower intestines. Cao Cishan, a health expert in the Qing Dynasty, said: "In old age, if you eat porridge every day, you can stay strong and live a long life, regardless of meals. ”He compiled more than 100 kinds of porridge recipes for the elderly to choose from. elderly welcome.

　　2. Millet is the best supplement for the elderly

　　The elderly like millet the most and regard millet as the best nourishing food. Millet is the granular grain after peeling the millet. It has always been known as "all kinds of grains, with millet as the first". Frail and sick elderly people often use millet to nourish their bodies. Chinese medicine believes that millet benefits the five internal organs, thickens the intestines and stomach, fills body fluids, strengthens bones and muscles, and grows muscles. A famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty said: "Millet nourishes people the most. Rice oil when cooking rice porridge is better than ginseng soup. ”It can be seen that it makes sense for long-lived old people to like "rice".

　　3. Pearl corn as staple food

　　Corn, also known as corn, corn, pearl jade, etc., is known as the world's three major crops along with rice and wheat. It is a world-recognized "golden crop" and is also a staple food that long-lived people cannot live without. The American Medical Association conducted a census and found that none of the indigenous Indians in the United States had high blood pressure or arteriosclerosis.

　　It turns out that I eat old corn. Medical scientists found in research that old corn contains a large amount of lecithin, linoleic acid, cereal alcohol, and vitamin E, so it is not prone to high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis. Judging from the physique of long-lived elderly people, they rarely have high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis, which is closely related to their eating corn as their staple food.