August 2020 – Senior Fitness For Life

Should seniors choose a gluten-free diet? How does gluten impact brain health? It seems to be a very popular trend. Many health-conscious seniors avoid bread and pasta unless it’s gluten-free, especially those who have food allergies, gastrointestinal problems,… Ask anyone and they’ll tell you what a healthy diet consists of. There are a zillion diets out there and most people swear by their favorite. But the science of nutrition is evolving from low-fat and high carbohydrate recommendations to its opposite, a diet… All diseases share two common causes: inflammation and oxidative stress. Yet both are normal processes of the body that sustain life. Therefore, we can’t take a pill to “cure” inflammation or eliminate oxidative stress. We need both. But they often… If we want to understand how to keep our aging brains healthy, we must understand inflammation. It is key to our ability to fight off infections, but chronic inflammation is implicated in obesity, diabetes, cancer, depression, autism, asthma, arthritis, coronary…