Health, Senior Health, Nutrition
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- Allows you to sign up for a free daily email newsletter that helps you make sense of the often confusing and contradictory nutrition news.
- New food guide pyramid developed by the US Department of Agriculture's Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging.
- Articles devoted to nutrition in the elderly including requirements, physiological changes common problems and assessment of status.
- Provides for congregate (group) and home-delivered meals.
- Nutrition checklist designed to alert individuals, family members, and physicians to conditions that may lead to malnutrition, particularly in the aged.
- The Food and Drug Administration. Problems, solutions, nutrition facts.
- Nutritional supplements defined along with recommended usages, requirements/recommendations, and natural sources.
- Presented by The Calgary Regional Health Authority.
- Potassium nutrition and physiology around the concept that the low potassium always present in arthritis and usually in heart disease should be relieved. An exhaustive opinion on the subject.
- A detailed and referenced opinion on copper nutrition and physiology as they pertain to hemorrhoids, slipped discs, aneurisms, emphysema, infection, arthritis, and maybe gray hair.
- Article examining physiological, metabolic and economic changes that may effect some elderly having a nutrient poor diet.
- Community food services in western & south western Sydney Australia.
- Articles on the MOWAA with easy links to follow to give donations.
- Age increases risk for food borne illness due to lowered stomach acid, weakened immune systems, reduced sense of smell. Foods safety precautions when handling, preparing, cooking, storing food for seniors.
- Offers several articles about foods and supplements that may slow aging or improve memory. Includes articles on food programs, how to read labels, and physical activity advice.
- Informative links to various resources related to questions of nutrition for the elderly
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