Elderly people can’t just take supplements when they are thin. For the elderly, there are too many factors that induce body wasting, and blindly taking supplements can easily backfire, and there is even a risk of inducing health threats. Clinically more common factors that trigger the body of the elderly to lose weight are diabetes, gastrointestinal diseases (such as gastric ulcers, intestinal nutrient absorption function degradation, etc.), oncological diseases, oral diseases, etc., there is a complexity of the causative factors, if blindly into the supplement is not only difficult to achieve good results, but also easy to make up for the wrong. If you want to properly give the elderly supplementation to improve wasting, it is recommended to follow the three principles of less salt, less oil, less sugar, you can supplement vitamin-rich fruits, such as apples, but also to supplement lean meat, chicken breasts and other protein-rich foods. In the final analysis, the elderly body wasting should not blindly take supplements, you need to go to the hospital first to confirm the triggers that lead to wasting, under the guidance of the doctor to choose the appropriate supplements.