A powerful protein that protects women from the biological onslaught of pregnancy could be harnessed to prevent and treat a range of geriatric diseases, a recent study suggests.

Proportion Food staff have joined a movement to collect plastic bottle tops.

Fancy some termites with your vegies for dinner? They taste rather minty, apparently. Or how about some grasshoppers – the Mexicans enjoy them roasted in chilli and garlic.

With aging, the body’s inbuilt mechanisms for sweeping out and recycling cellular metabolic waste products starts to wane. Kick-starting this inbuilt cleaning up process, known as “autophagy”, could be a key anti-aging target to slow the degenerative impacts of growing older.

The link between type 2 diabetes and obesity is so strong that the condition, also known as obesity-dependent diabetes, is now referred to as “diabesity”.

Modern times have seen a resurgence in paleolithic diets – for better or worse – as people turn to hunter gatherers for lessons on lifestyle and health.

One in three hospitalised adults in the US is at risk for malnutrition, a major analysis has found.

Many older adults don’t eat enough to meet their nutritional needs, and this can impact their healing and recovery from injury.

It affects about one in three older adults, it’s debilitating, it fast-tracks mortality, and finally it is gaining greater recognition.

Over the past decade, dementia has jumped from the fourth to the second leading cause of death in Australia – and for Australian women it has overtaken heart disease to become the top cause of death.

Animal protein – particularly whey powder – is popularly endorsed as the best source of amino acids for boosting muscle strength.

A new study has found that adults over 84 years who eat more protein are less likely to suffer disability, which is a significant problem in this growing age group.

New research adds to growing evidence that dementia can be prevented or delayed with modifiable lifestyle factors.

The number of people with food allergies is rising dramatically around the world. In fact, data suggest that peanut allergies have tripled over the past couple of decades.

Television, technology, and transport have transformed our leisure time, communication and movement. These luxuries have also added to a global crisis of inactivity and chronic illness.

If you ask the average young person how old is ‘old’, they would say over 50. Ask an older person and they would say over 65. To complicate things further, chronological age is not necessarily the same as biological, social or psychological age.

Today’s older generation would remember manual typewriters and public phone boxes. Some might even recall when television first entered people’s homes.

It’s been said that “to live is to play”. A bonus of aging is more time for leisurely pursuits. Indeed, a 2016 UK study reported that leisure activities and hobbies were by far the most popular aspirations for older adults.

In 2015, Helping Hand aged care centres implemented an innovative, 12-week exercise program to see if it could improve cognitive and functional abilities in older adults with significant memory loss or dementia.