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[Immune power up information] Re-evaluation of fasting therapy to cure pre-illness with food ③
[Immune power up information] Recently, the new coronavirus has taken the world by storm. In this corner, you can find information on how to build a body that can withstand corona, We will introduce excerpts from past musubi magazines and books published by Seishoku Publishing. The 21st installment introduces a lecture by Mr. Masashi Watanabe from the "Musubi Magazine April 3 issue" special feature "Medicine and Food Health Forum". (XNUMX times in total). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accept aging and stay healthy Realize healthy life expectancy by preventing bedridden people 75Mr. Watanabe, who has just turned a year old,75I am also interested in measures for the latter-stage elderly over the age of XNUMX. "75There are two ways to live beyond the age: one is to maintain the physical strength of one's youth, and the other is to accept aging while maintaining good health.The former is, so to speak, an American way of doing things, and the latter is a way of thinking that is more common among Europeans and Japanese people, and we should aim for a meaningful life through food, mind, and body.” He added, "Western nutrition science is good for food and the body, but it doesn't really have a lot to do with the mind. It doesn't clearly show what a meaningful life should be. In that respect, this is an excellent example of Japanese nutrition science." I think it's the place," he pointed out. Mr. Watanabe said, "To extend healthy life expectancy, it is important to prevent bedridden people." According to the survey, about one-third of the cases are related to lifestyle-related diseases such as cerebrovascular disease, heart disease, respiratory disease, diabetes, and cancer, and half of them are related to dementia, weakening due to old age, joint disease, bone fractures and falls. syndrome-related” accounted for.
Elderly people's frail cycle Efforts to support eating are also necessary Recently, we have begun to hear the term frailty, or the frailty cycle, in relation to health problems in the elderly. “The frailty cycle is like senile frailty. This is because as you get older, your basal metabolism slows down a bit. As a result, sarcopenia (muscle weakness) occurs, which leads to a decrease in physical function and activity level, and a decrease in energy consumption, which gradually worsens. I have to stop it with something." In connection with Mr. Okazaki's lecture, Mr. Watanabe, who introduced the term "oral frailty," also touched on feeding support for the elderly. According to Mr. Watanabe, in a survey targeting nursing homes, one-fourth of the respondents answered that they could eat what they wanted, one-third answered that they could eat most foods, and others answered that they could eat anything. Approximately XNUMX% of people have problems chewing, such as having difficulty chewing, being unable to chew, or having liquid diets.Among them, there seems to be complaints such as "dentures do not fit" and "stomatitis". Dietary interventions for dementia patients are also being actively implemented, but it seems that there are difficulties in the field because it is necessary to respond in detail to each individual patient. One day, an elderly person who couldn't eat anything at all said, "I want to eat eel rice bowl." It seems that there is also an example of eating normal food from the next day. Mr. Watanabe, who showed such an episode, said, "It's a strange thing to say that the human mind is. I think it's that there are things that are well connected and improve in that direction."
Back to list ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sho Watanabe Born in Pyongyang in 1941.he is a medical doctor.He graduated from Keio University School of Medicine.After working in the Department of Pathology at the same graduate school, the National Cancer Institute, and the Department of Pathology at the National Cancer Center, he became the Director of the Department of Epidemiology.After that, he served as a professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and as chairman of the National Institute of Health and Nutrition, and currently serves as chairman of the Life Science Foundation and presides over the journals Life Science and Medicine and Food.He is also the president of the Institute of Integrated Medicine and the president of the NPO Japan Society for General Medicine.He has served as a member of various government councils, such as the Health Science Council and the Cabinet Office Shokuiku Promotion Evaluation Committee Chairperson.
