Adequate nutrition and a balanced diet is very much important in the old age to prevent and control hazards and bad effects of ageing. Obesity, diabetes, constipation, cardiovascular diseases are the major diseases in old ages. Hence, good nutrition is very important dining old age. Special care should be taken that the diets of the elderly are nutritionally adequate and well balanced. You should know or have the knowledge that the elder people require less calories. Few factors always be kept in mind while you are planning balanced diet for the elder people.
• Provide them liberal amounts of food products like as milk, fresh fruits, green vegetables. These kinds of food provide them vitamins and other minerals.
• Adequate consumption of calcium should be ensured to make the bones strong in old age too.
• Scientists also gave emphasis on the importance of water in the diet of the elder persons for the better functioning of kidneys.
• The diet should be soft and well cooked and it should also include those foods which need a little or no mestication. Because at old age maximum people loss their teeth. So they need soft food.
• Intake of sweets, fried, high fat foods should be reduced at minimum. Because the elder people feels difficulty to digest such kind of food. A proper diet, exercise and a pleasant environment are necessary for a healthy and long life of our elders.