Nutrition Across the Lifespan for Healthy Aging
Publisher: National Academies Press 2017
ISBN/ASIN: 0309457483
ISBN-13: 9780309457484
Number of pages: 169
Description:
The authors examine trends and patterns in aging and factors related to healthy aging in the United States, with a focus on nutrition, and how nutrition can sustain and promote healthy aging, not just in late adulthood, but beginning in pregnancy and early childhood and extending throughout the lifespan.
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