Deakin University HSN702 Fact Sheet: Healthy Eating, Healthy Ageing

This fact sheet focuses on promoting healthy eating habits for healthy ageing. It highlights the risks associated with diets high in salt, sugar, and saturated fats, particularly for elderly individuals who are more susceptible to heart diseases. The sheet provides a list of recommended foods, including colorful fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, skinless chicken, fatty fish, eggs, legumes, and soy products, prepared in healthy ways such as boiling, steaming, stewing, or sautéing in olive oil. It also advises avoiding sugary biscuits, salted crackers, chips, sandwiches with mayo, cheese, spicy sauces, red meats, processed meats, alcohol, sodas, packaged juices, and caffeinated beverages. The fact sheet emphasizes the importance of hydration by encouraging ample water consumption. Desklib offers a wealth of similar resources, including past papers and solved assignments, to support students in their studies.

Healthy Eating,
Healthy Ageing!
Did you know?
According to the Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare, 1
out every 4 (26%) elderly
individuals, aged 75 years or
more, have a high risk of suffering
from heart diseases like stroke
and heart attacks!
What causes it?
If you consume too much
of foods which are high in
salt, sugar and saturated
or ‘bad’ fats, like pork,
beef, veal, butter, cookies,
pastries, sodas, alcohol
and takeaway foods, then
you are likely to be at risk
for high blood pressure and
heart diseases.
But why the elderly?
As you grow old, your body
loses its strength and ability
to fight diseases as it used to
do when you were younger.
Also, an older individual finds
it difficult to burn off the
energy and nutrients from
foods which is why, the foods
they eat are likely to be
stored as fat in their body. A
high body fat is also linked to
a high risk of heart disease.
What can I do?
You can actually contribute a lot
to their health and wellbeing!
Here are some of the foods
which you may bring (an avoid)
for your loved one to keep them
free from any form of disease
and to help age gracefully!
What foods can I
bring?•Colorful fruits, green leafy vegetables,
nuts and seeds: whole and toasted, boiled,
steamed, stewed or sautéed in olive oil.
Freshly made, homemade juices and
smoothies are great, but do keep it low on
salt or sugar.
•Skinless chicken, fatty fish, eggs, legumes
and soy: baked, stewed, steamed, boiled
or sautéed in olive oil.
•Remember to encourage them to drink
plenty of water!
Foods to avoid!
•Sugary biscuits, salted
crackers or chips,
sandwiches or salads
with mayo, cheese or
spicy sauces as
condiments and
dressings.
•Red meats or processed
meats like beef, salami,
veal, pork and sausages.
•Alcohol, sodas, packaged
juices and caffeinated
beverages