[Henan Science Popularization] "Dietary Guide" easy to read: elderly people must pay attention to physical examination and health management

Medical examination is the first way to do a good job of health management, which is conducive to discovering health problems in time.

In the health service of the elderly in the basic public health services of the country, health examination is a major project and a reflection of the national policy of benefiting the people. Therefore, the elderly should go to a qualified medical institution to participate in a health check -up according to their own conditions.

Under normal circumstances, you can participate in 1 or 2 health examinations every year. In addition, the elderly should learn basic health knowledge from regular channels such as newspapers, books, and community medical institutions that are officially published by the country, and improve their identification ability.

It should be understood that the health check -up is mainly to discover the risk factors that affect physical health. On the one hand, by adjusting the lifestyle, the impact of these risk factors can be reduced. On the other hand, if you find more serious problems, you should go to a professional medical institution for further inspections. Medical staff made professional diagnosis and conduct standardized treatment.

Evaluate the nutritional status in a timely manner and correct unhealthy diet.

The physical functions, living conditions, and social communication of the elderly have undergone great changes, and the factors that affect nutritional health are also constantly changing.

The elderly should be encouraged to pay attention to their own diet, often self -assess nutritional status, and regularly weigh weight to see if it is within the normal range of recommended. If large fluctuations occur in a short period of time, you should find the cause in time and investigate. In addition, you can also record your own diet to see if the foods you eat are rich, and to achieve the recommendations of 12 and 25 kinds of food per day in the dietary guide.

The most important thing is whether the amount of food, aquatic products, meat, eggs, milk, milk, soybeans, vegetables and other foods are basically equivalent to the intake recommended in the Chinese residents' dietary guidelines. Through these simple self -evaluations, you can understand whether your diet is basically reasonable.

For the elderly with a variety of chronic diseases and obvious physical function, due to the limited activity and medical treatment, they have special nutritional needs. The guidance of personnel, scientific and finely regulate diet, and do a good job of disease treatment and nutritional support in rehabilitation.

(Author: Book Xiaoyan Editor: Yang Hua)

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