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Wellness
Health span, not just life span
People are living longer than ever, but life span is not health span. What we eat, think, and do in our lives matters. Today, we are ushering in a future where people can be healthy, active, and mentally sharp during the last quarter of their lives. However, that future comes with a commitment to researching, training, and sharing the keys to living longer, stronger, more vital lives.
The Grace O Foundation was created to do just that, providing research, resources and programs that promote the physical and emotional well-being of older adults by offering an array of services to seniors and others with an emphasis on healthy eating, nutrition information, tasty recipes, fitness, recreation, education, and human services that promote longevity, a spirit of dignity, and limitless potential for later life enrichment.
The Grace O Foundation was created to do just that, providing research, resources and programs that promote the physical and emotional well-being of older adults by offering an array of services to seniors and others with an emphasis on healthy eating, nutrition information, tasty recipes, fitness, recreation, education, and human services that promote longevity, a spirit of dignity, and limitless potential for later life enrichment.
Grace O herself has spent a lifetime of exploring the benefits of foods from around the world in an effort to understand how people can live longer, healthier lives. Over the last decade, she has worked with anti-aging doctors, scientists, and nutritionists to build her FoodTrients website and create her cookbooks. Now she is establishing a community where food as medicine becomes a dynamic resource for all.
While an active lifestyle and eating right can help keep body and mind healthy and extend quality of life, many older Americans face barriers to accessing the most up-to-date and relevant information.
There are three essential parts of a person’s overall health, well-being, and quality of aging:
Good nutrition
Physical Activity
Healthy Weight
Together, these can help decrease a person’s risk of developing serious health conditions, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer. A healthful diet, regular physical activity, and achieving and maintaining a healthy weight also are paramount to managing health conditions so they do not worsen over time.
In addition, some foods are often less nutritious. Processed foods stuffed with high fructose corn syrup, refined flours, and trans fats–are a modern phenomenon. Refining kills nutrients. Often, foods are stripped of their nutrients during the refining process.
Physiological changes that come with aging can result in reduced calorie needs, which can lead to decreased food intake and altered body composition, even in healthy older adults. This can be compounded by diminished smell and taste, and changes in hormone levels that affect how quickly you feel full. Depression, lack of independence, and social isolation can make food less appealing, further contributing to a less than ideal intake.
The goal of the Grace O Foundation is to prevent, deter and combat the diseases of aging and provide information and services in a comprehensive, easy-to-understand, culturally sensitive manner in a way that is accessible to all who seek a better and healthier life.
Foodtrients
Combining her passion for food and a lifelong commitment to promoting a healthy lifestyle, Grace O has created FoodTrients®, a unique program for optimizing wellness. A FoodTrient is her name for the natural anti-aging properties of food.
Mixing foods and unique flavors culled from a lifetime of travels in Asia, Europe, and America, Grace O encourages young and old to celebrate a full life that embraces food diversity. Lifestyle tips, age-defying recipes, and secrets of the healing properties of food are the centerpiece of FoodTrients– all available through cookbooks, the website, e-newsletters, and much more.
