Hello everyone. I'm Monica Reinagle and this is episode number 573 of the

nutrition diva podcast welcome. This week's show happens to coincide

with National Senior Health and Fitness Day, which is on May 27th. And in fact the

entire month of May has been designated as Older Americans Month,

although that does beg the question, older than what? Older than whom?

But joining me today to talk about healthy aging is Dr. Christine Rosenblum. Dr Rosenblum is a registered dietician

and a nutrition professor emerita of Georgia State University in Atlanta where she taught

and held various administrative positions over her 30-year university

career.

And now, since retiring, Chris has written a book called Food and Fitness After 50 with

Dr. Bob Murray,

and she continues to blog about healthy eating

at Chris Rosenbloom.com.

Chris, welcome to the Nutrition Diva Podcast.

Well, thank you for having me, Monica.

It's great to talk to you. So we've all heard the jokes about 50 being the new 30 and 70 being the new 50 and so on. And as we age, I think it's natural that what we think of as old does seem to keep moving so

it's always just a little bit older than us but at the same time I do see some truth to

this the baby boomers and the Gen X generations to which you and I belong do seem to be aging differently than our parents and grandparents did.

We have different expectations of what it means to get older and to a certain extent we are experiencing middle and old age differently.

Why do you think this is? Have we gotten better at aging or is this just a state of mind or attitude?

I think it's a combination of many things. One of those is that we are living longer and so as our life expectancy has increased and you

know when you're 65 if you reach 65 your life expectancy is another 20 years.

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