Nutrition guidance for middle-aged and elderly people

Author: Lin Dennan
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
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Moderate nutrition, avoid overeating; maintain a healthy weight, don’t exceed the limit; appropriate exercise is essential, avoid overexertion; quit smoking, reduce alcohol consumption, follow advice, and cultivate good lifestyle habits; prevention is key when healthy, seek medical attention early if sick.
—Advised by Wang Minqing, this series of books carries out high-intensity health education to enable health workers and various groups to master the principles of healthy eating, thereby achieving the goal of health and longevity.
—Advised by Chen Xiaoshu, as long as you follow the principles of the "Dietary Guidelines" and allocate food rationally, even ordinary foods can help prevent diseases, promote health, and extend life.
—Advised by Gu Jingfan, the series editor-in-chief, prevention is more important than treatment. Strengthening the publicity and education of reasonable nutrition and balanced diets is the primary task.
—Advised by Zhou Wenzhen, life depends on nutrition. Since the existence of organisms, life and its continuation have been inseparable from dietary nutrition. Ancients long recognized this truth, noting that "eating well leads to prosperity, while starvation leads to peril," highlighting its great value. Thus, there is the saying, "Food is the foundation of the people." Modern science has further recognized that the abundance or deficiency of nutrients is a major cause of many diseases. Insufficient or lack of nutrition can lead to anemia, rickets, dementia, goiter, blindness, osteoporosis, and congenital deformities, while excessive nutrition can result in "luxury diseases" such as obesity, atherosclerosis, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, and diabetes. Mild cases affect health and reduce quality of life, while severe cases threaten life. With the development of China’s national economy and the gradual improvement of people’s living standards, the aforementioned nutritional imbalance has become increasingly prominent, making nutrition and health care receive greater attention. In response, the Chinese Nutrition Society formulated the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" in 1997, based on scientific research and tailored to the nutritional needs and dietary deficiencies of the Chinese population, with universal guiding significance. The purpose of compiling and publishing this series is to further popularize scientific knowledge of nutrition and health care, enabling the general public to correctly master balanced diets to strengthen the body, extend life, and improve and enhance the quality of the nation. The content of the series is divided into two parts: one is how nutrition prevents and treats various common diseases, and the other is the relationship between dietary nutrition and different life stages. The contributors to the series are all professionals who have long been engaged in nutritional work in clinical, teaching, and research fields. In their daily work, they have deep insights and rich experience in correctly handling the relationship between nutrition and health care. Therefore, the writing is thorough yet accessible, practical, easy to understand, and easy to implement. It is hoped that readers can gain a wealth of nutritional knowledge from this series and apply it in their daily lives, contributing to disease prevention, health promotion, and strengthening the body to better achieve a well-off society!