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The food of the seniorsThe seniors often have some deficiencies. However these nutritional unbalances are not necessarily due to a bad food. Some physical or environmental problems intervene. The point on these factors of malnutrition bound to age.
The specific food problems to the ageing appear to variable ages and are a lot more marked after the age of 85 years. In 2000, there are 12 millions of people aged of more than 60 years in France of which 1 million has more than 85 years. In 2050 they will be respectively 22 and 4 millions. These won years have interest that if we age in good health. A good nutrition, beyond the well-being that it procures, has a role of prevention better and more best-known on the pathologies bound to age.
Of the physical problems
At the aged person the apparition of some physical problems is a brake to a good food:
A bad bucco-dental state, a denture that doesn't hold embarrasses chewing, dragging the digestive unrests and the deletion of meats, of bread, of the fruits and vegetables believed in the food; The modifications of the taste, the salty becoming insipid entails an attraction for the sugary; The sensation of thirst decreased entails a reduction of the contributions in water and therefore a bad working of the kidneys. The lack of exercise and the food unbalances encourage the constipation.
Of the outside factors
It is necessary to take also into account social contingencies:
The people who live alone have tendency to more to cook, especially if they lived before in family, and to eat food without preparation, often sugary, to the detriment of meats and vegetables; The weak level of resources can influence the food habits negatively.
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