Nutrition for the Elderly

Abstract

          At present, a number of the elderly tends to increase because of medical development and advanced public health that causes their longer life expectancy. Good nutrition helps to prevent them from illness, decrease seriousness and chronic condition. They, however, face physical and biological changes that reduce their efficiency. Moreover, change of economic and social condition, lack of caretakers and bad eating habit cause them to have nutritious problem. In general, they need to reduce food energy due to weaken metabolism rate and lessen activities in their lives. Thus, selection of proper quantity of food consumption help them to relieve and protect them from immune chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, osteoporosis and etc. Furthermore, they should drink a proper amount of water and exercising to strengthen muscles and joints in order to decrease risk of osteoporosis and coronary heart disease to promote good nutrition for the elderly in the future.