The healthy diet is essential to any age, but requirements change at each stage. To meet the energy needs after the 50 is necessary to carry a sufficient diet, complete, varied and balanced.
When you reach 50, women enter the menopause or climacteric, which undergo a series of physiological changes as a result of the lack of estrogen. It is at this stage where it is common to weight gain. Body fat undergoes a rearrangement, with higher accumulation in the abdominal area. Also exacerbate health problems such as dyslipidemia and osteoporosis.
To prevent osteoporosis is necessary to maintain a balanced diet rich in calcium, as well as exercise and abstention from alcohol and snuff.
From age 40 decreases the body’s energy needs, therefore, daily calorie intake should be reduced and increasing exercise metabolism to achieve the energy input process. (more…)
