The Relationship Between Nutrition and Aging

1) Regardless of age, food plays an important role in causing many diseases and health conditions for all people. In order to realize a long-term healthy life, it is necessary to recognize that current and past diets have a big influence on the long-term health of the future, so that it is important for healthy eating habits in daily life It is necessary to adapt. One of the main precautions against a wide range of diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, cancer and so on is to balance "anti-aging" meals.

• Biological and behavioral factors are associated with a complex bi-directional relationship between malnutrition and weight loss, and on the other hand, deterioration of the oral health condition. Diet and nutrition of elderly people are affected by changes in the immune system, loss of teeth, state of the oral cavity, and even environmental factors. There is evidence that medicine may cause malabsorption of healthy essential vitamins and minerals. The countries of the world of knowledge dissemination are not fully addressing the objectives of the World Health Organization to improve the health of the oral cavity of elderly people. Reducing social inequality in oral and general health and improving access to oral health services is still an important issue, especially for the elderly. 45, 166

Nutrition and Oral Health Oral health, diet, nutritional status and relationship with general health are complex. 46, 47 Nutritional deficiency affects oral health, 48 poor oral health affects food choice. Lack of vitamins, minerals, proteins, calories may damage the immune system 49, therefore diet and nutrition are related to the elderly due to oral health, especially oral cavity and dental diseases. Food intake of chronically ill patients will be less. Swiss study 51 on older hospitalized patients examined the relationship between clinical parameters of malnutrition, serum albumin concentration, indexes related to oral health (tooth status, oral hygiene, chewing function, salinity change rate).