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Nutrition
- Baby boomer nutrition: What you need now
Baby boomers — always at the leading edge of cultural change — are ushering in a new approach to aging. Surveys suggest that members of the boomer generation, now well into middle age, do not want to age like their parents did. Many hope that good nutrition can keep them in their prime. Read more>>>
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- Nutrition, Vitamins & Supplements for Seniors
Even though older adults generally have poorer health, middle-aged adults are most likely to turn to complementary and alternative medicine, a new study shows. The study also found that adults of different races or ethnic backgrounds use these self-care methods in similar proportions. Read more>>>
- USDA Food Pyramid Updated for Special Needs of Older Adults
The Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults, developed by researchers at Tufts University, continues to emphasize nutrient-dense food choices and the importance of fluid balance, but adds additional guidance about forms of foods that could best meet the unique needs of older adults. The importance of regular physical activity is also stressed. Read more>>>
- Americans Eat Too Much Salt
Reducing your sodium intake can improve your health and increase longevity Read more>>>
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Baby boomers–always at the leading edge of cultural change–are ushering in a new approach to aging. Surveys suggest that members of the boomer generation, now well into middle age, do not want to age like their parents did. Many hope that good nutrition can keep them in their prime. But what choices will help this motivated group of adults reap the most rewards?
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- Boomers 'questioned authority - and medicine is a form of authority'
Even though older adults generally have poorer health, middle-aged adults are most likely to turn to complementary and alternative medicine, a new study shows. The study also found that adults of different races or ethnic backgrounds use these self-care methods in similar proportions. Read more>>>
- Nutrition Notes: Baby Boomer Nutrition
American Institute for Cancer Research - Surveys suggest that members of the boomer generation, now well into middle age, do not want to age like their parents did. Many hope that good nutrition can keep them in their prime. Read more>>>
- Senior Citizen Drivers Setting New Records – For Safe Driving, Fewer Fatal Crashes
Jan. 13, 2009 - Auto crash deaths among drivers 70 and older fell 21 percent during the period 1997-2006, reversing an upward trend, even as the population of people 70 and older rose 10 percent, according to a new study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Read more>>>
- As We Age: Nutrition for Senior Adults
As We Age, we realize that aging started the day we were born. Our society is living longer than ever before. In Virginia, one out of every three older adults is over the age of 74.** Throughout our entire life course our minds and our bodies constantly undergo changes. When we consider aging as affecting us on many levels, we are exploring aging using a biopsychosocial lens. Read more>>>
- Diet in Old Age
Adequate Nutrition and a well balanced diet is of vital importance in Old age so as to prevent and control the common hazards of Aging. Many factors like poor income, decreased mobility, social isolation and depression are known to affect the health and well being of the elderly. Under nutrition, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and osteoporosis have been identified as the most important and commonly prevalent nutrition related health problems in Old Age. Read more>>>
- Changes with age: Old Age
The elderly -- a fast-growing population (estimate: by 2050 >60 million Americans will be over age 65, and 1 million will be over 100). Read more>>>
- Cholesterol and survival in old age
CHOLESTEROL AND SURVIVAL IN OLD AGE There is very substantial evidence showing that high total cholesterol levels and low levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol are associated with an increased risk of death from coronary heart disease among people in midlife. Much less is known about the prognostic significance of serum cholesterol levels in old age. Read more>>>
- Ageing and nutrition
The food we eat is important for our psychological and physical well-being. A healthy, well-balanced diet during the active phase of our life is the best prerequisite for ageing healthily. In contrast, diseases caused by eating an unbalanced diet over many years cannot be compensated for in old age. Read more>>>
- Nutrition and the immune system from birth to old age (PDF)
For millennia, food has been at the center of social events, in times of joy and in times of sorrow. Protein-energy malnutrition is associated with a significant impairment of cell-mediated immunity, phagocyte function, complement system, secretory immunoglobulin A antibody concentrations, and cytokine production. Deficiency of single nutrients also results in altered immune response: this is observed even when the deficiency state is relatively mild. Of the micronutrients, zinc, selenium, iron, copper, vitamins A, C, E and B6, and folic acid have important influences on immune responses. Overnutrition and obesity also reduce immunity. Low-birth-weight infants have a prolonged impairment of cell-mediated immunity that can be partly restored by providing extra amounts of dietary zinc. In the elderly, impaired immunity can be enhanced by modest amounts of a combination of micronutrients. These findings have considerable practical and public health significance. Read more>>>
- Nutrition Key To Avoiding Frailty In Old Age
"The study showed that the risk of frailty was correlated with a diminished intake of protein and vitamins A, D, C and the B vitamin folate. If a person was deficient in two or more nutrients, the risk of frailty more than doubled." Read more>>>
- Baby Boomers Come of Age: Nutrition in the 21st Century
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- UN Report on Nutrition: Nutrition Challenges from the Womb to Old Age
In many developing countries malnutrition is a vicious circle that begins before birth, gets transmitted during reproductive stages of life, and lasts into old age, according to a report produced by the United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination/Sub-Committee on Nutrition (ACC/SCN) in collaboration with IFPRI. Undernourished girls and women give birth to underweight and stunted babies. As these infants grow, they are less able to learn and, eventually, are more likely themselves to be parents to low-birthweight and under-nourished babies. As adults, they are less able to generate livelihoods and less well equipped to resist chronic disease in later life. Read more>>>
- Can vitamin supplements prevent cognitive decline and dementia in old age?
Cognitive impairment and dementia are common occurrences in old age. Their effects on families and patients are irreversible, debilitating, and costly. Interventions that can prevent and effectively treat these conditions are sorely lacking. Because the risk factors for cognitive decline are multivariate, several possible strategies for prevention, including antiinflammatory therapy and the use of antioxidant supplements, could potentially be effective. Read more>>>
- Growing Older, Eating Better
Nutrition remains important throughout life. Many chronic diseases that develop late in life, such as osteoporosis, can be influenced by earlier poor habits. Insufficient exercise and calcium intake, especially during adolescence and early adulthood, can significantly increase the risk of osteoporosis, a disease that causes bones to become brittle and crack or break easily. Read more>>
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