Healthy Eating for Elders: Sixteen Savory Snacks

Eating well for healthy joints

Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevalent and disabling chronic diseases affecting older people. It is a degenerative disease of synovial joints that has a major impact on joint function and quality of life. The only resident population of cartilage tissue is represented by chondrocytes, cells synthetizing ECM components and being responsible for cartilage homeostasis [1]. Thus it is cle...

Adolescents’ Perceptions of Healthy Eating and Communication about Healthy Eating

Effects of high-protein vs. high- fat snacks on appetite control, satiety, and eating initiation in healthy women

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine whether a high-protein afternoon yogurt snack improves appetite control, satiety, and reduces subsequent food intake compared to other commonly-consumed, energy dense, high-fat snacks. FINDINGS Twenty, healthy women (age: 27 ± 2 y; BMI: 23.4 ± 0.7 kg/m2) completed the randomized crossover design study which included 3, 8-h testing days com...

Culture and Healthy Eating

Healthy eating is important for physical health. Using large probability samples of middle-aged adults in the United States and Japan, we show that fitting with the culturally normative way of being predicts healthy eating. In the United States, a culture that prioritizes and emphasizes independence, being independent predicts eating a healthy diet (an index of fish, protein, fruit, vegetables,...

The Healthy Eating Index