What should the elderly eat if they want to live longer?

The less meat “legs” the better

"Eating with four legs is not as good as eating with two legs, and eating with two legs is not as good as eating without legs." Many years ago, Chinese nutrition experts made the above statement about the way humans eat meat. This means that eating the meat of four-legged cows, sheep, and pigs is not as good as eating the meat of chickens, ducks and other poultry, and eating the meat of poultry is not as good as eating fish.

Professor Fu Shanlai of the Shanghai Health Care Committee pointed out that eating too much meat will cause excessive nutrition such as fat and protein in the body. From a nutritional point of view, the meat that flies in the sky and the meat that swims in the water is white meat, and is naturally more nutritious than the red meat that runs on the ground.

However, the diet emphasizes the principle of eating small amounts and frequent meals. Only when the food types are diverse enough can nutrition be balanced. Instead of blindly consuming a lot of a certain food because it is nutritious.

The more mixed whole grains you eat, the better

The reporter found that the leaders’ diets mentioned in the report were not full of delicacies as ordinary people imagined. On the contrary, they ate more whole grains and less meat; their series of dietary methods could also be followed by most ordinary people.

Professor Jiang Jiakun, vice chairman of the Shanghai Nutrition Society, told reporters that the current diet is simple, white flour, rice, and rarely eats cereals, which increases the body's calories and is also one of the causes of cancer. Modern people do not pay attention to food when eating and consume too many vegetables and fats.

In fact, a person needs to consume 4 taels of rice every day. If the intake of some whole grains can be increased, it will be better for the body. Blindly eating vegetables, eating less or skipping meals is also against the principles of nutrition.