All through our lives, the nutrition remains an important consideration. It is a common knowledge that a good nutritive diet will help prevent many diseases as we age and likewise a poor nutritive diet will run the risk of chronic heart diseases, diabetes and many other diseases later in life. Inadequate levels of work out as well as calcium ingestion, particularly in teenage years as well as in the early adulthood, can considerably add to the danger of osteoporosis (Nelson et al., 1994; Kurtzwell, 1996). This is a disease, which is characterized by brittleness of bones that makes them vulnerable to even mild accidents. However, if the nutrition is good not just in the early years but also in the later years can help prevent many diseases that prevail when a person gets old, for instance, the risk of diseases like high blood pressure, chronic heart diseases, problems related to gastro-intestine, obesity and other diseases, can be evaded. Moreover, its not only that a good diets prepares a person for a better elderly life, but also good nutrition intake may help prevent aging and may slow up the normal aging process in a normal human being.
There are many researches in the field that have embarked upon finding the exact nutritive combination that may help prevent the process of aging or lest to control the speed of aging. If such researches are successful, as is very much hoped from the recent successes, the quality of life may be improved and the problem of elderly may be resolved. This is because around 20% of the population today in America comprises of elderly people and half of this population requires the need for elderly care centers (Russell et al., 1999)............
