The elderly's health care: Malnutrition becomes the hidden danger

The elderly's health care: Malnutrition becomes the hidden danger
World Health Organization predicts, by 2015, 1/6 of the population will be threatened by malnutrition in the whole world. Old crowd's alimentary deficiency rate is 12.4% on average over our country 60, the countryside is higher than the city. Malnutritive and very unfavorable to the elderly's condition, make the elderly's life-span shorten, become the elderly's sanitary health hidden danger.

Study to reveal, nowadays more than 86% of the impatients in the world are malnutritive even faces the malnutritive risk, the nursing institute and 91% of the recovery centres and 38% of the community old men up to 67% face the same problem. At the annual seminar of clinical nutrition of Nestle's nutrition science recently, Dr. DavidR.Thomas of the healthy scientific centre of U.S.A. St.Louis university has announced this investigation result. Estimate and examine according to World Health Organization, by 2015, 1/6 of the population in the world will be threatened by malnutrition.
The elderly nutrition of our country " Scarce " With " surplus " Coexist
The expert points out, it is organism malnutrition that the nutrient lacks or too much and the supersession obstacle cause to be malnutritive. The alimentary deficiency is because of the negative balance of the nutrition supersession, lack one or more of nutrient in the organism, shown as the body organizes nutrient content reducing or density to drop then change chemical change and function at first, cause deficiency disease finally. Hypernutrition is the nutrient that the organism absorbed exceeds one's own need, the surplus part accumulates and causes the pathologic state in the body, its disease mainly includes: Obesity, high lipoprotein blood disease, high triglyceride blood disease and selenium nosotoxicosis.

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