More vegetables
Plenteous vegetables are good of protecting angiocarpy and anti-cancer. The elderly should eat more than 250 grams vegetables per day.

Less meat dishes
Giving consideration to both meat and vegetables, the two should be mixed. There ought to be not less than 10 kinds of food in the staple meal.

Heated food
Raw and cold food is cold-natured; it will affect the digestion and absorption of spleen and stomach or cause injury. Therefore, the elderly should avoid eating raw food, especially in the winter.

Eat slowly
Chew carefully and swallow slowly is easy to produce a sense of fullness. It could make them have a better digestion from preventing overeat.

Fewer amounts
The secretion of saliva a day of the aged is one third of the youth’s, meantime the secretion of gastric juice is one fifth of the youth’s. That’s the reason why they always suffering from stomach swelling and indigestion when they eat a little more. Therefore, the intake of food for the elderly each meal should be 10%- lessen compared with their younger time.

Finer breakfast
The total calories of breakfast should be hold 30%-40% in a whole day. Its quality and nutritional value supposed to be high and refined. The greasy, fried, hard and dry food is not recommended I breakfast.