For your health, our experts have something to say: Do older people need nutritional supplements?

Hara: [For your health, our experts have something to say] Do older people need nutritional supplements?

When going out of the clinic, many elderly people said: The children in the family are filial piety, and they have bought a lot of health care products, do I use them to eat? I believe that many people have confusion in this regard, in addition to the normal diet, do we need to eat something?

First of all, let's talk about what are the health products?

The health care products we understand are often used to supplement some of the elements missing in the human body, and some are used to enhance physical

Let's talk about what nutrients do we need in our human body?

The human body needs 6 nutrients : carbohydrates, fats (lipids), proteins, vitamins, minerals and water to survive

Like the main supplement of the human body's lack and loss of nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, fiber, DHA and so on

Nutritional supplements may consist of amino acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, minerals and vitamins, or consist of only one or more vitamins; It may also be composed of one or more dietary ingredients, in which amino acids, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, may also be composed of herbs or other plants, or concentrates, extracts or constituents of

Therefore, for the elderly, it is okay to supplement nutritional supplements such as multivitamins and fish oil

About the author

Wang Yao

Elderly demonstration ward of Beijing Geriatric Hospital

Deputy Chief Physician

Member of the Geriatrics Department Construction Branch of the Chinese Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Expert expertise: management of chronic diseases in the elderly; Diagnosis and treatment of muscle decay; Elderly nutrition assessment, dietary health guidance, medical nutrition weight loss, etc

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