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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.
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Nutrition Across the Lifespan for Healthy Aging: Proceedings of a Workshop
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·2017
In September 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to 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...
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