YOUR DIET AFTER FIFTY
Book Specification
| Item Code: | IDH041 |
| Author: | SURESH CHANDRA |
| Publisher: | PUSTAK MAHAL |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2013 |
| ISBN: | 8122307817 |
| Pages: | 160 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Other Details | 8.4 |
Book Description
Your life is filled with choices. Everyday you make choices related to clothes, shoes and sometimes marriage proposals and jobs, for your sons and daughters, if not for yourself. Some seem trivial, while others are important. But apart from these, there is one choice is of food. If is not a trivial matter This choice affects not only your individual life but also the life of your spouse and sometimes the family as a whole.
This book is about the choice of food -food that is nutritious and health giving. Within its pages, you will find reliable nutrition information and sound advice, based on scientific evidence. It offers you practical ways to eat healthy in almost any situation and at every phase of life, particularly after 50. And it encourages you to enjoy the pleasures of food but, at the same time, promote your health and well-being. After all, taste is the number one reason most people choose one food over another. Most important, the flexible guidelines help you choose nutritious, flavourful foods to match your own needs, preferences and lifestyle, even as your life enters the third phase.
About the Author
After serving in various departments, the author retired in 1992 as an assistant commissioner, Sales Tex, U. P. Government. Even while in service, Suresh Chandra evinced interest in the problems of the aged and retired persons. Since retirement, he is actively associated with some NGOs that are working for the welfare of the aged and organizing the elderly for social work. Suresh Chandra has written several articles on the problems of the elderly in various magazines. His two books A guide to Happy Retirement for the Salaried People and Hale & Hearty even After Fifty were a great success and appreciated by scores of retired persons and other senior citizens. This is his third book guiding the elderly on how to enjoy food and remain healthy at the same time.
| Introduction | 9-11 | |
| 1 | Food | 12-30 |
| Functions of Food | ||
| Concept of Balanced Diet | ||
| Planning Balanced Diet | ||
| Nutrition for the Aged | ||
| 2 | The Concept of Health | 21-23 |
| Physical, Mental, social and | ||
| Spiritual Health | ||
| Inter-relationship between | ||
| Nutrition and Health | ||
| 3 | Nutrients: Macro and Micro | 24-52 |
| a) | Macro-nutrients | |
| Carbohydrates | ||
| Fats | ||
| Proteins | ||
| b) | Micro-nutrients | |
| Vitamins | ||
| Minerals | ||
| c) | Some other elements | |
| Fibre | ||
| Caffeine | ||
| Alcoholic Beverages | ||
| Water | ||
| Dietary Supplements-Use and abuse | ||
| 4 | The Digestive Tract | 53-62 |
| The Mouth | ||
| The Swallowing Scene | ||
| The Stomach | ||
| The Small Intestine | ||
| The Colon or Large Intestine | ||
| The Appendix in the Patient Over Fifty | ||
| 5 | The support Systems for Digestion | 63-68 |
| Gall-bladder | ||
| The Pancreas | ||
| The Liver Lifeline | ||
| How to keep the system young? | ||
| 6 | The Principles of Eating Well | 69-76 |
| Supply of Energy | ||
| Major source of Pleasure | ||
| Shaping Behaviour | ||
| Health and Pleasure and not | ||
| Mutually Exclusive | ||
| Social Interaction | ||
| Defines our Culture and Personal Identity | ||
| Some Impediments to Eating Well | ||
| Some Tips to Make Food Tastier | ||
| 7 | The Problem of Weight | 77-83 |
| A Longer Life | ||
| A Simple Way to Reduce Weight | ||
| Summary of Basic Facts about Weight | ||
| Some Tips for Weight Gain | ||
| 8 | Some Old age Diseases | 84-112 |
| related to Food | ||
| High Blood Pressure | ||
| Diabetes | ||
| Heart Disease | ||
| Cancer | ||
| Constipation | ||
| Gas | ||
| Haemorrhoids (Piles) | ||
| Heartburn | ||
| Ulcers | ||
| Gallstones | ||
| Osteoporosis | ||
| Loss of Teeth | ||
| Preventing Cavities | ||
| 9 | Foods as Medicine | 113-143 |
| Fruits | ||
| Vegetables | ||
| Pulses | ||
| Cereals | ||
| Milk, Curd, Honey | ||
| Dietary recommendations for some | ||
| common health concerns | ||
| 10 | Fasting as a Way to prevent Old age | 144-150 |
| Keep Clean Inside | ||
| An Experiment | ||
| Toxic Acid Crystal Theory and Back Pains | ||
| Fasting Theory | ||
| Subnutrition Diet |
