The Role of Healthy Diet and Lifestyles in Old Age
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Geriatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 April 2024) | Viewed by 5327
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health-care planning; health promotion; prevention of non-communicable and communicable diseases; reduction in aging-related functional limitation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Centenarians are being studied as models of healthy aging to help researchers understand the determinants of excess health span and longevity with functionality. Research studies have shown that diet and lifestyle can both affect health. Diet, physical activity, and exercise have a positive effect on physical, social, cognitive, and psychological status at any stage of life, promoting longevity with functionality. In addition, sleeping pattern, positive mental attitude, engaging in cognitive stimulating activities, and avoidance of risk behaviours, such as smoking and excessive alcohol intake, have similar positive effects on longevity. Therefore, research on an active and healthy lifestyle is important, not least because of its impact on human health and quality of life.
This Special Issue is interested in aging-related studies on dietary intake, nutrition, physical activity, exercise, physical fitness, physiological values, health, mental health, mental fitness, quality of life or related issues, and sleeping. This Special Issue specifically aims to receive research that helps to better understand the connections of healthy diet, physical activity, health behaviours, and lifestyle with the promotion of longevity with functionality, especially among centenarians.
Prof. Dr. Eduardo Simoes
Prof. Dr. Luiz Roberto Ramos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- centenarians
- healthy aging
- longevity
- functionality
- diet
- physical activity
- lifestyle
