How many of you never add extra salt, sometimes add extra salt, or always add extra salt? Well depending on your answer, you could be opening yourself up to liver disease in your later years; The USDA MyPlate website offers an easy way to calculate what and how much each of us should eat in as little as 30 secs; An online calculator provided by the American Heart Association (AHA) can now forecast (pretty accurately) if you are a candidate for heart disease; The FDA has approved a blood test that can accurately spot amyloid plaques in your brain, giving you easily attainable advanced notice if you're heading towards Alzheimer's disease; Enjoy!
Diet and Nutrition
For a Healthier You Rethink That Extra Dash of Salt
iStock/NataKor
Surprising new research links increased salt intake in older adults to, of all things, liver disease. Particularly Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD), cirrhosis, and even liver cancer.
Please support our sponsors! They help us keep Active Aging News free. ♡
Diet and Nutrition
Checkout the USDA MyPlate Website For Easy Calorie Intake Suggestions
myplate.gov
Remember the Food Guide Pyramid? It was a way for the USDA to provide diet recommendation before the internet. It has since been replaced with MyPlate. You simply plug in your age, height, weight, and how much you currently exercise and it spits out a recommended daily diet plan to optimize your health. It's pretty cool and takes 30 secs to complete.
A New Dawn in Alzheimer's Diagnosis: Unveiling the Lumipulse Blood Test
A ground-breaking blood test called The Lumipulse blood test, has been recently cleared by the FDA (which means it may soon be offered by Medicare). It provides a simpler and potentially easier way to spot amyloid plaques in the brain.
Refer a friend to our free newsletter using your custom referral link (below) and when they subscribe, you'll be invited to submit your own playlist to be included in an upcoming newsletter!