Nutrition Across the Lifespan: A Workshop

Workshop

September 13 - 14, 2016

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This 1.5-day workshop, hosted by the Food Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, explored nutrition across the lifespan for healthy aging. The workshop facilitated a broad examination of the trends and patterns of aging and factors related to healthy aging in the U.S., with a specific focus on nutrition. The agenda included a range of topics on the spectrum of aging and health, from early-life origins of disease to overweight and obesity in late adulthood. Highlighting the role of nutrition in the aging process at various stages in life, experts also discussed changes in organ systems over the lifespan, including the skeletal, muscular, and cardiovascular systems, and changes that occur with age related to cognitive, brain, and mental health, diet-related sensory preferences, oral health, and the microbiome. In addition, through both presentations and moderated discussions, the workshop explored opportunities to move forward in promoting healthy aging in the U.S.

Watch the workshop presentations and discussions here.

Contact

Food and Nutrition Board

fnb@nas.edu

Location

National Academy of Sciences Building

2101 Constitution Ave NW

Washington DC 20418, USA

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It is essential to the National Academies mission of providing evidence-based advice that participants in any of our meetings or events avoid political or partisan statements or commentary and maintain a culture of mutual respect. The statements and presentations during our meetings or events are solely those of the individual participants and do not necessarily represent the views of other participants or the National Academy of Sciences, which is a non-partisan, tax exempt organization that includes under its Charter the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine, and that operates the National Research Council.

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