Because of their emptiness of jing and qi, the elderly are all the more easily injured by uncontrollable emotions. Irregular diet includes both overeating and undereating. It also includes eating too much raw, cold food, hot foods, and oily, greasy, or spicy foods. All of these can cause disharmony of the zang fu . This then escalates from mild digestive disturbance to severe disease due to spleen dysfunction failing to perform its functions of transportation and transformation.
Poor digestion is a common problem amongst the elderly.
Therefore, they need to be more careful than others with their diet. Unfortunately, some people simply ignore their health and lose control during the holiday seasons. They overeat and overdrink at family reunions which cause them immediate woe. In Chinese medicine, stress means overtaxing the body or overconsuming our body's energy. This includes too much sex.