March is National Nutrition Month, and this year’s theme, “Discover the Power of Nutrition,” invites us to look beyond calories and diet trends to instead focus on how food truly shapes our health and wellbeing. Despite much of the media being focused on food as a weight loss strategy, nutrition is far more powerful than that. Optimal nutrition preserves muscle,…
When we ask people what they think of when we say healthy aging, we hear a variety of ideas like strength, mobility, heart health and independence. What’s interesting is that research shows when adults are asked what they fear most as they get older, the answer is consistently the same: cognitive decline. Repeated surveys of adults age 65 and older…
Our guess is that you have at least thought about starting or improving your exercise routine this month as it is the natural way for most of us to start the year. But for adults moving through middle age and beyond, the underlying reason for making fitness goals is not simply getting stronger or losing weight. The real reason we…