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The Covid effect: the body as a whole

A recent report looks at how older people have been affected by lockdown, and finds that nutrition is one of the key issues

Proper nutrition is a key pillar of resilience for frail older people coming out of the Covid lockdown; but exercise, mental wellbeing and behaviour change are equally important, concludes a report from The Physiological Society and the Centre for Ageing Better. A National Covid-19 Resilience Programme: Improving the health and wellbeing of older people during the pandemic is the result of an online poll of over 2,000 people aged 50 and over, looking at exercise and physical activity levels, mental wellbeing, fruit and vegetable intake and ‘what actions to maintain health participants thought would be most effective’. “One concern that

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