ABSTRACT
The greater life expectancy is certainly representative of our ability as a society to make advances in technology, health care, and delivery of nutrition. Nutrition must play an important part in meeting that challenge, just as advances in the quality and availability of food have contributed to longer life expectancy. In this chapter, the author devises dietary and nutritional strategies that, along with other interventions such as exercise, can be instituted earlier in life. Intensive research into nutrition and aging is very recent, although a number of theories have historical roots. The author finds more anemia, protein malnutrition, and vitamin deficiency in urban, minority populations at a low socioeconomic level. Since the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health in 1969 and the White House Conference on Aging in 1971, the author institutes a number of programs that have benefited the elderly in both their economic and nutritional status.
