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BLUMBERG, JEFFREY - HNRCA-TUFTS |
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Submitted to: Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition
Publication Type: Other Publication Acceptance Date: 6/6/2000 Publication Date: 1/1/2003 Citation: Blumberg, J.B. 2003. Elderly (b) nutritionally related problems. In: Caballero B., Trugo L., Ginglas P., eds. Encyclopedia Of Food Science And Nutrition, 2nd ed. Academic Press Ltd: London, 2003;2022-2027. Interpretive Summary: Technical Abstract: Nutrition influences the progressive loss of tissue function with aging and plays an important role in the genesis of several major chronic degenerative diseases. Aging influences nutritional requirements and nutritional status through changes in appetite and in pathways of nutrient absorption, utilization, and excretion. Further, a variety of socio- economic and psychological factors as well as the presence and treatment of current disease(s) common to older adults affect dietary patterns and nutritional status. Thus, some of the nutritional problems of the elderly are the consequence of long-term (chronic) interactions between diet and aging beginning in adolescence and young adulthood while others are associated with the more immediate (acute) result of old age itself. |
