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Good Nutrition Means Better Living
"Youth is wasted on the young."
—George
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One
of the key ingredients to a high-quality life is good
nutrition. This becomes even more important as we age.
Getting older doesn’t mean that we have to give up our
chance at a healthy body. Good nutrition is one of the
cornerstones to living longer and feeling good while
traveling on the journey of life.
A recent study published in the July 2009 issue of The
Journal of Nutrition shows that eating a healthy diet
can attribute to a longer life.
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Ashima Kant, a Queens College professor of nutrition,
and her colleagues studied data culled from 350,000 men
and women about their dietary habits. Kant’s research
found that people who more closely followed the USDA
Dietary Guidelines had a lower risk of dying at a
younger age.
She explained that, “It’s not that you have to do
everything [that the dietary guidelines recommend] to
have any health benefits.” But the research shows very
clearly that risk factors, such as heart disease, can be
lowered by better nutrition.
One factor in unhealthy eating may simply be
convenience. Microwaving frozen meals may seem like an
easy solution to the daily challenge of meal
preparation, but many of these frozen packaged meals are
significantly lacking in nutritional value. One of the
services provided by reputable senior care firms is
teaching the caregivers the value and art of cooking
healthy meals for their elderly clients. Caregivers are
trained to know and prepare healthy foods, and how to
cook tasty, appealing meals for their clients that will
eventually keep them healthy, stable, and strong — often
resulting in the senior feeling younger than might be
expected at their age!
Links:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/nutritionforseniors.html
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