Question

3. You are working with a middle-age adult who is overweight, sedentary, and eats mostly meat, bread, potatoes, and desserts. Does this person represent normal aging or successful aging? How would you approach this individual about his health and what suggestions would you have for improvement?

Answer 1

This person represents normal aging.

The life style this person is having is not at all good and over weight and sedentary lifestyle will interact to produce degenerative body changes.

In successful aging, regressive changes are slowed or reduced by the positive life style.

Healthy diet, regular physical activities and positive mind set will lead to successful aging.

To approach this person about his health, I need to be very sensitive as he would be inferior about his health as he is overweight and does nothing. I would go with some positive examples of people who adapted positive life style and changes that happened to them.

Healthy diet should include fruits and vegetables, healthy oils, herbs and spices, fluids, grains, dairy and protein.

This person is only havimg carbs in his diet and does not physical activity. So i would suggest him to do some physical activity and change his diet to above mentioned.