Being able to maintain independence and take care of yourself is an essential part of healthy aging.
This requires senior people to be able to do many physical activities, including bathing, getting dressed, carrying groceries, and walking upstairs.
However, physical function can decline as people get older.
In a recent study, researchers found that having a healthy diet or simple diet changes could lower the likelihood of developing physical impairment by about 25%.
An overall healthy diet was more strongly linked to better physical function than an individual component or food.
The findings show that diet can have specific effects on our health and can affect our wellbeing and physical independence as we get older.
This Health & Medicine Lab video talks about how to eat healthy for your body type.
If you care about diet, please read studies that diet alone can strongly improve older people’s health, and this diet may help prevent, reverse aging in the brain.
For more information about nutrition, please see recent studies about why combining Diet Coke with French fries is really a bad idea, and results showing the 5 surprising benefits of a plant-based diet.
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