Welcome to the Nato Better Show. I'm a host Paul Focal-Sang and this is episode number 354.

Today's show is brought to you by Heavens May. Our show today is part of our Fitness Friday series and it's another great one in our Fitness Friday programs.

We're hearing from returning guest nationally known nutritionist Mike Glasgow.

Mike spent over five years working for an area agency on aging in Wisconsin

helping to oversee the Older Americans Act and Senior

Congregate Dining and Meals on Wheels programs and he'll join us in just a

minute. We are talking fitness, health and nutrition today and specifically about a protein-rich

diet which is important to health.

According to the National Institutes of Health,

up to one-third of older adults

don't eat an adequate amount of protein

due to reduced appetite, dental issues, impaired taste, swallowing problems, and limited

financial resources.

Combined with a tendency to become more sedentary this puts them at risk of deteriorating

muscles compromised mobility, slower recovery from bouts of illness and the loss of

independence. The research which as always will link to goes on to say

that older adults need to eat more protein-rich foods when they're trying to lose

weight dealing with a chronic or acute illness, or facing a hospitalization according to a growing

consensus among scientists.

During these stressful periods, aging bodies process protein less efficiently and

need more of it to maintain muscle, mass, and strength, bone health, and other

essential physiological functions. Even healthy seniors need more protein

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