Healthy eating is just as important for seniors as it is for young adults, adolescents and children.
To have a healthy lifestyle, a good diet should be combined with regular moderate exercise. This can include walking, swimming or dancing. Exercise helps control your appetite and hence your weight, strengthens your heart, blood vessels, lungs and bones, and helps you sleep. Studies on nutrition of Australians indicate that a number of older people have poor diets, including a shortage of intake of fibre, some vitamins and minerals. As a result their health can suffer.