- people aged 65 years or more members should take vitamin D supplements each day to avoid the risk of falling. That’s the advice of experts of the University Hospital Zurich (Switzerland) and Harvard University (USA) after the general results of 8 clinical study with the participation of more than 2,400.

Source   Telegraph to cut 19% risk of fall, older people just taking a single dose of vitamin D contained from 17.5 to 25 mg of drug per day.Vitamin will promote the work within 2 to 5 months after beginning to apply this method and its effectiveness will last long after the first year. Previous studies have confirmed that vitamin D improved strength and balance ability in older people.

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- Elderly enough if you want to sleep, deep sleep, healthy sleep, disarmament was tired of a day and improve brain power, before preparing to sleep very necessary, very important. Noting some general points.

Half hour before going to bed, need to stop learning, work and recreational activities such as watching television, reviews all … Is the best in the house or yard work a bit, exercise, tai chi set … not too power consuming, need to relax naturally, making the physical and mental calm , set the basis for good sleep sleep.
Hot water should soak the foot washing, and use two hands knead remove two feet. Before the mu foot massage, then massage the soles of the feet until it has warmed all time. So may cause blood vessels to expand there, nervous excitement at the end, translation increased blood circulation, replacement high metabolism is enhanced, making the information communication business activities, the entire continent contingent government organs are strongly up. People with conditions warm water bath can, make the blood vessels to expand its body, created at the relatively anemic than that easily goes to sleep asleep.
To go to bed before the primary. Once on the bed, lies a quiet moment, make the mind an spirit. So will easily go into sound sleep. When sleep need is a curved, tilted to the right. Friend is back to sleep, avoid placing your hands on the chest, is not under compression pressure myself.
The elderly were lung diseases such as chronic inflammatory airway branches, heart disease due to lung disease born before bed to put pipes under the bed for convenience Spitting on it. People with diseases such as coronary artery disease of the heart, angina heart disease, high blood pressure, do not suddenly drive into the underground animal is cold. Can put the bag in hot water before. Because cold welding may cause blood vessels have collected a sudden, high blood pressure, easy to generate platelets gather in that convulsion blood vessels, blood vessel formation rules, trigger heart disease and acute cerebral blood vessels. Medicine box health protection must be placed at the top of bed to when you need urgently, get use to the media.
There are some elderly people have a habit of smoking before bed, even people in bed and still smoking, pollution of air in the bedroom, causing great harm to sleep sleep, sometimes sleeping forgot to extinguish cigarettes also cause fires. If you use night before bed, warm blanket finish, cut power to the bed was then located. Not necessarily to inform electric all night to avoid disasters that lead to surprises.
The elderly or back up at night, in the beds need to switch electric lights lit up when needed. For the elderly themselves do not facilitate these activities, in the bedroom lights best to sleep light weak gentle. Sunglasses, bats against the elderly are put in place next to the bed when you need to put in place next to the bed to get to easily when needed, to avoid the disasters that unpredictable. The preparations prior to sleep can be done based on specific and practical problems exist in each person’s flexibility to conduct adequate preparation.

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According to statistics nearly 2,000 people in the U.S. within eight years, about 129 people diabetes. In particular, those with low body index accounts for 79%.

In addition, those who lost weight rapidly at risk of diabetes by nearly three times higher than the weight loss is not significant. This is easily seen in overweight people, obesity at the time of starting the study.

Dr. Tiffany F. Hughes of the University of Pittsburgh, USA, said: “The findings of our shows, the rapid weight loss is the most obvious symptoms of diabetes, and those who have expressed a rapid weight loss risk earlier others.

Thus, the elderly need to monitor and control their weight regularly to assess the health status. If you see signs of continued weight loss, should see your doctor for advice.

However, experts note, the elderly should not be based on this study for that new weight gain continued as well.Overweight, obesity is the enemy of health, especially with the elderly.

Eating Disorder and maintain an appropriate level of weight is something new that the elderly need to be healthy.

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