Healthy Eating Plans That Help To Lower Risk Of Cancer And Heart Disease

A study recently published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology may give people more cause to rethink not-so-healthful food choices of convenience, findings indicate that eating fast food is associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

According to the Gerontology Research Group, Bessie Hendricks was America’s oldest living person. The Supercentenarian has died after achieving an impressive 115 level-ups.

Hendricks passed on a few days ago at Shady Oaks Care Center in Lake City, Iowa. She was born in Calhoun County on November 7, 1907, grew up on a farm, married in 1930, and went on to raise 5 children, two of whom the longevity warrior managed to outlive.

With falls causing millions of injuries in older adults each year, it is an increasingly important public health concern. Older adults living with dementia have twice the risk of falling and three times the risk of incurring serious fall-related injuries, like fractures, compared to those without dementia. For older adults with dementia, even minor fall-related injuries can lead to hospitalization and nursing home admission. A new study from researchers in Drexel University's College of Nursing and Health Professions, has shed light on the many and varied fall-risk factors facing older adults in community-living environments.

News Release Research Highlights:

• Reformulating packaged foods available in Australia to contain less sodium may save about 1,700 lives per year, according to a new study.
• Using the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendations for reducing the population’s sodium intake, the researchers estimate following the WHO sodium guidance may also prevent nearly 7,000 annual diagnoses of heart disease, kidney disease and stomach cancer in Australia.