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Article: Aging
- Article from:
- The Journal of Nutrition
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright American Institute of Nutrition Oct 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Today approximately 12.5% of Americans are over age 65. By the year 2025, the number of individuals whose life span extends well into the eighth decade is expected to grow to over 20 percent. The mission of the NIA is to foster research that finds methods to extend years of productive life through improved health, lifestyle, and psychosocial status. The NIA's Nutrition and Aging Program contributes to this goal by sponsoring basic, animal model, clinical, and population-based studies to determine the ways that nutrition influences the onset and progression of aging.
Nutrition and aging research poses several unique challenges. The variation of physiological and behavioral measures increases ...