Pensioners will now be advised to ease up on the cakes, add coffee cream and eat fried food in order to avoid malnutrition in the elderly. Such recommendations given to British experts.
More than 1, 3 million people in the UK aged over 65 years are on the verge of malnutrition or already suffering from it, as the study showed. These figures are surprising to hear in an age in which mankind is fighting the obesity epidemic and actively losing weight. Actually, it’s just too hard following a healthy diet is pushing many people to the fact that they refuse to eat and they believe that thereby they strengthen your body. Experts insist that if this kind of extreme diet observed in the elderly, the seniors put their health to considerable risk.
General advice for people faced with malnutrition, will increase the calorie content in the diet. To achieve this goal, you can add cream in your coffee instead of milk, to roast, not boil the food, greater use of butter in the eggs, fry the chicken until the appearance of a crisp and lean on cakes and pastries. Otherwise prolonged malnutrition can provoke pathological processes in the body, which at a certain stage become irreversible. For example, deadly anorexia is an extreme type of malnutrition.
The results of a poll conducted recently, showed that 45% of adult UK residents mistakenly believe that weight loss in the elderly is normal. In fact, such behavior may be a sign of malnutrition. While 40% of people believe that even if a person is underweight, he should avoid eating flour, sweet and fried foods. (READ MORE)