Elderly people should eat more honey to supplement their health in summer

　　Summer health care, elderly You can drink more honey to replenish your body. environment to body healthy The impact is great. If you are exposed to a bad environment for a long time, your physical condition will continue to decline. Especially for the elderly, the functions of various organs in the body have begun to gradually decline. Therefore, you must take care of yourself from other aspects at this time. The best method is dietary therapy. So what kind of dietary therapy can be comparable to expensive drugs.

　　Honey is a nutritional treasure that is very suitable for the physiological needs of the elderly. Foreign studies have long shown that: as age increases, the human body’s response to honey decreases. Grape The utilization rate of sugar is significantly reduced, while the utilization rate of fructose does not change much. This shows that fructose and fructose-containing products are the most ideal carbohydrate foods for the elderly. It not only provides energy and nutrients to the body, but also provides the body with a carbohydrate that is most suitable for saving protein. This may be the theoretical basis for many elderly people to like to eat honey.

　　Eating sugar in the elderly can easily lead to hyperglycemia, which can lead to Hyperlipidemia diseases, atherosclerosis, diabetes and other senile disease . This will not happen when eating honey, because there are two sugars that are easy to absorb: glucose and fructose, and their ratio is very suitable. Relatively speaking, the human body absorbs glucose better than fructose.

　　Therefore, after eating honey, the grapes in it are absorbed quickly, while the fructose is absorbed slowly, thus maintaining blood sugar. Doctors such as Ci and Kno of the University of Chicago have tested a series of nutritious foods and found that: except for glucose, honey is the fastest substance absorbed by the human body, and there will not be too much sugar in the blood, and blood sugar returns to the lowest level at an extremely slow speed.

　　In addition, honey enhances the resistance of the elderly and has a preventive and therapeutic effect on age-related diseases. Regular consumption by the elderly can prevent and treat cough , insomnia, vascular disease, indigestion, gastrointestinal ulcers, constipate and dysentery disease.

　　Tips for choosing high-quality honey

　　Among the various types of honey sold in the market, especially the bulk honey sold door-to-door by some vendors, some of the honey is adulterated. The main ingredients are sugar, water and starch. Some honey also contains impurities and has an impure texture. As long as you master certain identification methods, honey adulteration can be seen.

　　1. Take a look first. When buying honey, bring a small white or transparent cup. Use a spoon to scoop a little bit into the small cup. Look at the color. The color of real honey is very light, a light yellow. If sugar is added, the color will be slightly darker and reddish.

　　2. Then use your fingers to stir twice in the small cup and lift your fingers. The honey will flow into the cup along your fingers. If the flowing honey can form a small pile on the surface of the honey in the cup, it means that the concentration of honey is relatively high, which can almost reach 37 or 38 degrees. On the contrary, if the honey flows down drop by drop, it means that the concentration of honey is too low and the water content is too high, and it will definitely not reach 38 degrees.

　　3. Taste the honey. When pure honey is eaten in the mouth, it is not the front half of the tongue that feels sweet, but the back half of the tongue to the throat. According to my uncle, when pure honey is eaten in the mouth, it will be sweet in the "throat", while honey mixed with sugar will be sweet in the front half of the tongue. I tried this method and found that the two brands of honey I bought in the supermarket were all mixed with sugar! Another point is that honey mixed with hot food will taste a little "mushy" because the sugar needs to be boiled to taste like honey. Pure honey tastes a bit "green", as you can imagine, it smells like pollen.