Mrs Dee's Corner - Food Choices In Old Age

No matter how scary it looks with its various health challenges, growing old is something everyone looks forward to and has to face.....

It's a period when adjustments have to be made with food choices even though some of these may foods still tickle our sense of taste. The motivating factor for this kind of decision is usually to avoid living in constant pain and discomfort, sickness and being dependent on drugs.


Some of us have witnessed our aged parents cut down on certain foods that were no longer good for their health and incorporated medicinal foods like garlic, ginger, tumeric into their meals. They adapted to eating more of fruits and vegetables, while bidding foods like red meat, salty and oily foods, foods with artificial sweeteners goodbye.


In some rare cases, some aged persons have totally eliminated ice cold drinks and water from their food because of the toll it takes on their bones. I've heard one say ice cold food made his bones ache badly. So he only took hot drinks or the one at room temperature.


Most adult children are quite understanding and have developed tolerance for their parents' choices of food each time they come visiting or vice versa, while others are yet to come to terms with this new reality because it can be tasking and time consuming.


Old age comes with a lot of changes and challenges; mentally, physically and health wise and only a handful pass through it barely bruised by deteriorating health and lack of changes in food choices.