“People live on food” and “Life is about exercise”, and both eating and exercise are indispensable in life. Throughout society, most of the people who actively exercise every day are the elderly. They have enough time to do all the sports that they want to do at work but do not have time to do. Walking, running, hiking, practicing Tai Chi, dancing, the streets, alleys, parks, lakeside eighty, ninety percent are elderly people. According to reason, so active exercise, sick old people should be reduced, and the current situation of many elderly people is: just started exercising, the first few years is less sick, physical fitness is also strong. But the older you get, the more you practice the opposite of a variety of problems according to get, and not less into the hospital, especially cardiovascular disease, while exercising, while according to commit. What is the reason for this? Eating is much more important than exercise. Those who exercise the body as usual sick people, often are heavy exercise and light food therapy people. Every day spend hours of exercise, while eating but rough tea, talk about light, mainly vegetarian. 1, the two losses of blood and qi people old, blood and qi loss is a common disease of the elderly. Various organs have served you for decades, but also consumed a lot of wear and tear. 2, digestion and absorption capacity is weakened The elderly also have a characteristic, that is, the amount of food is reduced, the gastrointestinal digestion and absorption capacity is also weakened, and sleep time is also reduced, so the cause of the decline in immunity after age, easy to get sick. 3, insufficient blood supply, the elderly gas and blood loss, the reduction of blood volume, easily caused by the lack of blood supply to the extremities, so the elderly relatively cold, wear more clothes. After we exercise, the limbs warm up because the blood supply is obviously sufficient, and this time the internal organs, especially the heart and brain, these organs of the blood supply demand, it will be relatively ischemic. Exercise did not increase blood volume, but to redistribute blood, long exercise, the elderly will appear dizziness, panic, shortness of breath, sweating these heart, brain obvious symptoms of ischemia. Therefore, middle-aged and elderly people please remember: nutrition is more important than exercise! Nutritional balance, in order to less disease, long life Reasonable, rich diet can strengthen the body, replenish the blood, so that all organs of the body at any time can have an adequate blood supply, reduce the occurrence of heart and brain diseases, prolong life. In addition to moderate exercise, the focus of the elderly should be placed on the use of therapeutic dietary supplementation of the body. According to the weakness of the body of the elderly, dietary therapy due to pay attention to the following: 1, eat some soft, rotten, easy to digest food. 2, fruit every day to ensure that an orange. 2, fruit every day to ensure that a tangerine or an orange, or an apple on the line. 3, every day should drink 1 ~ 2 bottles of milk, 1 ~ 2 eggs, every week should ensure that there are pork, beef, fish, shrimp, chicken. Winter often eat some lamb, fish, shrimp is to sea fish, sea shrimp, sea fish, sea shrimp, high nutritional value, while less pollution. A variety of meat dishes weekly rotation to eat, to ensure that a variety of nutritional integrity, vegetables to seasonal vegetables, anti-seasonal vegetables to eat less. At the same time, eat less or do not eat duck, snails, mussels, fish, crabs. These cold food, the elderly weak spleen and stomach, and cold and cold things easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, so usually the elderly should try to eat or not eat. 4, eat porridge food, often with red dates, cinnamon, walnuts, white fruit, yams, chestnuts, hollow lotus seeds, pine nuts converted to porridge to eat. 5, the elderly drink tea, but also to pay considerable attention. Because drinking tea is a daily drink, and fasting will often drink, so it is more conducive to absorption. In the fall and winter, bitter melon tea, bitter tea, honeysuckle tea, cassia seed tea and other cold tea, to drink as little as possible.