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Submitted by karen1234 on April 18, 2007
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I decided to write my paper on elderly nutrition. I
have chosen this topic because I believe nutrition is
important at all ages now, especially in those of the
elderly. Fattening foods are around more now than ever, so
the problem of obesity is getting out of control. Obesity
as we all know causes heart attacks and other such medical
problems.
People are not noticing the problem anymore until the
worst happens. “Everyone thinks that heart disease always
happens to someone else, until it happens to them,” says
Christopher Cates, M.D., director of a Heart Center in
Atlanta. Sixty-two-year-old Jack Andre says having a heart
attack in March 2003 was like getting hit in the head with a
baseball bat. \"It brought a lot of things to my attention
that I never thought about before,\" he says. He was
overweight, didn\'t exercise, and often ate high-fat foods.
But he never connected his lifestyle to his heart.
Statistics show that every year more than 1 million people
have heart attacks, about 13 million Americans have coronary
heart disease, and about half a million people die from it
each year. The one dying are the elderly whose bodies are
not as strong as those who are younger. Heart disease is
mostly known as a “man’s disease” these days. Patrice
Nickens, M.d., leader in a cardiovascular medicine
department says, “We want women to know that heart disease
is not a man’s disease. Rather, heart disease is the
leasing cause of death for women, and heart disease is
preventable and treatable.” I am throwing in these
statistics because nutrition is the cause of these diseases
and once it again it is important to take care of ourselves
and more importantly the elderly.
The Department of Health and Human Services offers some
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