Maintaining Digestive Health

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Maintaining your digestive health is vital at any age in your life but if you are a senior you will want to pay particular attention to your digestive health so that you can continue to lead a healthy and active lifestyle. As you grow older you will have to watch more carefully what you eat since nutrition is an important issue for your digestive health. Poor nutrition and poor digestive health can often be a contributing cause for some heart diseases, adult diabetes, osteoporosis, alcoholism, and affect your body if you are recovering from surgery or from an injury. Your digestive health is also affected by poor nutrition by hindering your immune system, which in turn causes your body to heal more slowly after an injury.

Poor nutrition and poor digestive health can also cause your mental capacities to be functioning at a less than optimal capacity. This is especially true in older adults. If you want to keep your digestive health in order you should make sure that reduce the amount of fat that you consume. The amount of fat that you consume should be 30 percent or less of the calories that you eat each day. You should also try to reduce the amount of alcohol, salt, and sugars that you consume. You daily diet should be comprised of healthy fats, such as olive oil, which is a monounsaturated fat that is good for your body and your digestive health. You should be avoiding foods such as ice cream, cheeses, butter, and whole milk. Try to eliminate the amount of baked, processed food that you eat, as well as hot dogs, cold cuts, ham and pork, bottled salad dressing, and gravy. If you want to maintain your digestive health your diet should be healthy and balanced.

There are many small things that you can do to improve your digestive health and to make sure that you don’t have any digestive problems that are going to cause other health problems for you in the future.