It is better for old people to have breakfast late 'Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy' is the key words of health preserving to many old people who get up at five to six in the morning and do exercises after a hurried breakfast.As a matter of fact,this would lead to gastrointestinal diseases. When sleeping,most of organs are in a state of rest after a day's work so as to ensure working normally in the following day.But digestive system still works busily in the evening,tensely digesting and absorbing the food reserved in gastrointestinal tract,and won't rest untill morning.In addition,it takes intestines and stomach at least 2 to 3 hours to rest in the morning for recovery because of the recession old people in body fuction and digestive system fuction.If old people have their breakfast untimely,this will obstruct the rest of intestines and stomach,burden the digestive system more heavily and make it easier for them to suffer from gastrointestinal diseases. Besides,human body is in its natrual excretion period in the morning and the blood is turbid then,also the metabolite of the previous day needs to be cleaned urgently.If taking food too early,the excretion will be affected.Therefore,old people shouldn't have their breakfast too early. As the Chinese traditional medicine experts suggested,it is suitable for old people to have breakfast between 8 and 9.30a.m.They should also not get up immediately after awaking but lay in bed for 15 to 30 minutes,and then get up to drink a glass of warm water to clean the rubbish in intestines and stomach. As far as experts considered,it is best for old people to have warm and soft food which is easy to digest,and it is really suitable to have some porridge.It would be best to add some lotus seeds,red dates,rhizoma dioscoreae and so on into porridge.It is inappropriate to have fried,dry,hard and irritant food. Furthermore,old people shouldn't have too much breakfast in case it is too much to digest and lead to a decline of digestive function.