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Working Caregiver- Healthy Diet

These resources provide family members and caregivers with the tools and information that will help them stay healthy and equip their aging relatives to stay strong

Without good nutrition, health can deteriorate very quickly, making adults, seniors and older persons more susceptible to disease and infection.

Healthy Diet Articles

Lower Your Salt Intake, Lower Your Blood Pressure
By limiting your sodium intake to less than 500 mg per day, you can significantly decrease the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke. [ Read More ]
Heart Healthy Diet
Implementing some simple nutritional changes into your daily diet can greatly reduce your risk of heart disease. [ Read More ]
4 Tips to Lose Weight
By making these four simple lifestyle changes, you can make a big difference in your life, from weight loss to preventing heart disease. [ Read More ]
No Magic Formula for Healthy Aging
These attributes appear to be associated with as much as an 80 percent reduction in the risk of developing such diseases as diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer, according to a report in the August 10/24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. [ Read More ]
Importance of Senior Nutrition
The importance of nutrition to healthy aging is why Home Instead Senior Care has launched the Cooking Under Pressure nutrition campaign to provide education and support to seniors and their family members [ Read More ]
Reduced-Calorie Diet Blunts Aging
We observed that caloric restriction reduced the risk of developing an age-related disease by a factor of three and increased survival. [ Read More ]