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Healthy Eating after 50
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“I have trouble chewing.” “Food just doesn’t taste the same anymore.” “I can’t get out to go shopping.” “It’s too much trouble to cook for one person.” “I’m just not that hungry.” Sound familiar? These are a few common reasons some older people don’t eat healthy meals. But, making healthy food choices is a smart [...]
Scientists Weigh Mechanisms, Effects of Calorie Restriction
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Back in 1934, dust storms rolled across the Great Plains, Anything Goes premiered on Broadway, the New Deal was still new, and Bonnie and Clyde met their demise. During that year, too, scientists at Cornell University observed that lab rats fed a calorie-restricted diet had twice the lifespan of other rats. Those observations, reported the [...]
As life expectancy increases, we are challenged to find ways to keep the additional years of life free of disease and disability.
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This document provides justification for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 activities of the National Institute on Aging (NIA), including NIH/AIDS activities. Details of the FY 2008 HIV/AIDS activities are in the “Office of AIDS Research (OAR)” section of the Overview. Details on the Roadmap/Common Fund are located in the Overview, Volume One. Director’s Overview There [...]
Study Demonstrates Improved Health, Survival In Aged Overweight Male Mice on Resveratrol
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Overweight aged male mice whose high calorie (fat) diet was supplemented by resveratrol, a natural compound found in common foods like grapes, wines and nuts, had better health and survival than aged overweight mice who did not receive it, according to a study published online in the Nov. 1 issue of Nature. The study was [...]
