The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) created the 2020 – 2025 Dietary Guidelines to assist Americans of all ages navigate their dietary wants and obtain a well-rounded eating regimen. USDA additionally supplies suggestions for various age teams, together with these people 65 years and older, who usually want fewer energy and extra protein, get too little hydration, and might have dietary supplements to satisfy their nutrient wants.
“We all have the ability to maximise and enhance our well being, add vitality to our years, cut back the danger of illness, and improve our healthspans—the variety of years we dwell in good well being. And analysis exhibits that it is by no means too late to make enhancements,” mentioned Lindsay Clarke, J.D., Vice President of Health Education and Advocacy on the Alliance for Aging Research. “Despite this, we all know that lower than two-thirds of Americans ages 60 and older comply with the USDA dietary tips. The Alliance launched this new video useful resource throughout Older Americans Month with the hope that older adults can simply perceive the connection between diet and wholesome growing old and make optimistic adjustments of their each day decisions.”
“Food for Thought: The Role of Nutrition in Healthy Aging” highlights the ability of a nutritious diet in sustaining our well being and independence as we age, underscores the adjustments with growing old that influence our dietary wants, and addresses the tough actuality of meals insecurity in older adults. To study extra go to www.agingresearch.org/nutrition and watch “Food for Thought: The Role of Nutrition in Healthy Aging.” The video is additionally accessible in Spanish and free to obtain.
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About the Alliance for Aging Research
The Alliance for Aging Research is the main nonprofit group devoted to accelerating the tempo of scientific discoveries and their utility to vastly enhance the common human expertise of growing old and well being. The Alliance believes advances in analysis assist individuals dwell longer, happier, extra productive lives and cut back healthcare prices over the long run. For greater than 30 years, the Alliance has guided efforts to considerably improve funding and focus for growing old on the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration; constructed influential coalitions to information groundbreaking regulatory enhancements for age-related illnesses; and created award-winning, high-impact academic supplies to enhance the well being and well-being of older adults and their household caregivers. For extra info, go to www.agingresearch.org.
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