Show Round th tit County With Naomi COALVILLE COALVILLE- I By lIy Naomi Jensen We cant can't stop getting older but nutrition Lion authorities declare that by eating right wo we certainly can postpone those symptoms of aging Older people need about the same basic foods as younger adults but their body changes I Ido do call for some adjustments in diet As wo get older and decrease de do crease our physical activity wo vo naturally need fewer calories When we are older wo we will need about OO few fewer r calories a day than when we were young adults I However we still need about the same amount of proteins vitamins vita mins and minerals for ample body protection Actually nutritionally speaking each stage of our life cycle is de dependent dependent do- do pendent on every other stage This Is largely due to eating habits and tastes we develop from early childhood through adolescence adolescence adolescence cence cence and through early adult adult- hood Thus It is especially Important I for mothers to plan nutritious meals for their children The Dally Daily Food Guide available from the County Home Agent gives suggestions This food guide can be he equally useful to young adults and to those In their later years It explains that in determining a persons person's total food needs at each of these periods we must consider his or her heT activity level of health weight and prevailing I chronic diseases or disability and any medical advise that has been given Good well-planned well nutrition can lengthen our prime of life me and give us more vigor vitality and joy fn In living It can Increase our work productive span of years fortify our to devitalizing devitalizing de de- de- de vitalizing diseases and quicken our recovery from Injuries surgery surgery sur sur- gery gerr and Illness |