As living standards improve, people pay more attention to health, and more and more people are investing in physical exercise.
Especially for many middle-aged and elderly people, in order to have a healthy body after they are old, enjoy the beauty of life, and improve their happiness index, they even go out for a walk after eating every day.
However, most people will become weaker when they get older, and they will seem a little overwhelmed in life. For example, some intense exercises are no longer suitable for doing them, so they advocate a more gentle and non-harm exercise method.
Most middle-aged and elderly people with mobility difficulties are more keen on - walking.
As the saying goes, "Let's walk a hundred steps after a meal and live to ninety-nine." Does this sentence make sense?
Benefits of walking:
1. Helps digest
50 people have less gastrointestinal function than before. The gastrointestinal peristalsis is too slow, which often leads to indigestion, abdominal distension and constipation; and walking can improve stomach motivation, accelerate digestion, promote absorption, and reduce gastrointestinal pressure.
2. Promote blood circulation
Walking can make every muscle in the body move, accelerate blood metabolism circulation, enhance the body's immunity, and reduce the incidence of cardiovascular diseases.
3. Benefit the brain, protect the heart
Old people are good for walking more often, preventing brain atrophy and Alzheimer's disease , improving memory, and also beneficial to heart health.
4. Prevent osteoporosis
The older the age, the faster the body's organs aging, and various nutrients in the body begin to lose, especially calcium. The loss is accelerated, which can easily induce osteoporosis . Frequent walking can strengthen the physical condition and prevent osteoporosis.
5. Control blood sugar
If you are middle-aged and elderly people with diabetes , walking more can also control blood sugar. Even if an elderly person without diabetes insists on walking for half an hour every day, it will help you stay away from diabetes.
6. Reduce body fat
The metabolic rate of the elderly is low. If the appetite remains unchanged and exercise decreases, body fat will increase over time, which is easy to "increase the risk of three highs". Walking around after meals will help fat burning, reduces body fat, and prevents the occurrence of fat, liver and hyperlipidemia.
or above is the benefit of walking more. However, if you want to achieve the purpose of health and longevity, walking alone is not very possible. After all, as you age, the body's organ functions begin to weaken, and increases the incidence of diseases, so it is not realistic to be able to live longer by walking.
Not only do you need to walk and exercise, but you should pay more attention to these 4 things after the age of 50:
1. Soak your feet before going to bed
Soak your feet before going to bed is a good way of health preservation, because there are many acupuncture points on the soles of our feet. Stimulation of hot water can clear these acupuncture points and speed up blood circulation.
Soak your feet for 20 to 30 minutes every night. After soaking, wipe the moisture on your feet in time and massage it. This will help relieve fatigue, , excrete garbage and toxins in the body, and relax your body and mind.
2. Adhere to calcium supplementation and nutrition
In the diet, eating dairy products is a way to supplement calcium, However, you also need to consider the gastrointestinal problems of the elderly. Can it be absorbed after drinking it, and only after absorbing it can calcium be supplemented to the bones.
First of all, milk is a well-known milk drink. Although it is cheap, it has many "side effects". Because Chinese people's lactose intolerant constitution, they will have diarrhea after drinking camel milk and are prone to allergies; goat milk is mild and the price is a little higher than milk, but mutton is not only mutton, but also mutton is also mutton, which many people can't get used to.
In fact, the more popular dairy products include camel milk . camel milk only has a mellow milk flavor and a very Xinjiang-style taste, which tastes salty and salty. camel milk also contains more than a dozen nutrients needed by the human body, which are natural and easy to absorb, and is worthy of its price.
has a kind of "Seiyue Youtuo" is a local camel milk brand in Xinjiang. As the very pure camel milk of , the price of is much more affordable than that of ordinary camel milk brands; it also adds probiotics, taurine , folic acid and other ingredients. improves immunity, nourishes the stomach and improves sleep.
Therefore, many people in Xinjiang like to drink this camel milk to supplement body nutrition, calcium, and strengthen bones.
3. Condition your diet
Middle-aged and elderly people should eat less greasy, high-sweet and high-salt foods, less processed foods, light diet, eat more fresh vegetables, fruits and coarse grains, and supplement protein and unsaturated fatty acids in moderation. You only need to eat until you are full.
4. Drink more water
Body cells cannot be separated from the moisturizing of water. Water is the source of life. Adults should ensure that the amount of water they drink every day is between 1,500 and 2,000 ml. The elderly should also drink more boiled water in normal times. Developing good habits of drinking water can help blood circulation, strengthen metabolism, and delay body aging.
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