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Healthy eating as you age

This booklet provides information about healthy eating and food choices for older people living with diabetes.

As we get older, it can be challenging to stay nourished and maintain healthy eating habits. Our lifestyles and appetites can change and chronic conditions such as diabetes can take up our time and energy and affect our food choices.

A photograph of an older man with white hair and a beard, wearing a light blue unbuttoned shirt over a white t-shirt, alongside an older woman with short blonde hair in a mustard-colored top. They are smiling at the camera in a kitchen setting. The man holds a glass bowl of fresh green salad with a spoon, while a wooden table in the foreground features other fresh vegetables
Healthy eating as you age

Healthy eating and food choices for older people living with diabetes.

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