The diet is also low in cholesterol, but high in dietary fiber, potassium, calcium and magnesium. For more information, a 16 page document in Adobe format may be obtained at the National Institutes of Health Web site . For information on how many calories or fat grams a particular food has, visit the U.S. Department of Agriculture . More information on research on fruits and vegetables is available from the The Better Health Foundation . The number of people over the age of 65 is projected to rise from 390 million today to 800 million by the year 2025, and over 80 percent of circulatory disease deaths will occur in people over 65.
Hypertension ranks as the second most frequently occurring condition among the elderly.
In Kids A Stanford University study, presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in San Francisco, suggests that, for grade-school children, watching less television may be a key to limiting weight gain. Children involved in a one-year curriculum to reduce their TV viewing gained significantly less body fat compared to a control group of peers. The study of 192 third and fourth graders from two San Jose elementary schools is showed not only a connection between watching TV and weight gain, but it also showed some of the first evidence that a behavioral program delivered in schools can motivate children to reduce their television viewing, according to study author, Thomas N. Robinson, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics and medicine at Stanford University. American children spend, on average, more than four hours a day watching TV and videos or playing video games, adding up to 60 full days each year spent in front of the tube. Meanwhile childhood obesity has sky-rocketed, doubling in the last 20 years.