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Several Trends of Older Adults' Diet: Rapid Need for Change

Abstract

The commentary focuses on the topical issue in the area of older adults' dietary trends and the need for rapid changes to enhance their quality of life and prolong healthy life expectancy. Having plenty of evidence of improper older adults' diets leading to various diseases, we focus on the necessary decisions for dietary behavior change. We underline that food marketing, busy lifestyles convenience priority over nutritional quality, longstanding habits and emotional ties to food are factors that define older adults' diets and strongly complicate dietary behavior changes. The commentary marks out that older adults lack education for proper diets and a better quality of life. It is evident that older adults' dietary behavior change is long-term in perspective and mostly affected by physiological, psychological and emotional factors. Inga Izdonaite-Medziuniene*, Laura Preiksaitiene

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