A team of British scientists at King's College London has discovered that healthy levels of vitamin D may help to slow the aging process and protect against age-related diseases. “These results are exciting because they demonstrate for the first time that people who have higher levels of vitamin D may age more slowly than people with lower levels of vitamin ...

Fruits Packed with nutrients but generally scant on fat and calories, fruit satisfies your sweet tooth while providing you with a great source of vitamins, minerals and fiber. Fruit is also full of phytochemicals—a group of compounds that reduce the risk of chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes and some cancers. Similarly, many fruits provide the body with antioxidants, ...

Dairy Dairy products are your richest source of calcium, which aids in building strong teeth and bones and helps your heart, muscles and nervous system to function properly while lowering your risk of diseases like osteoporosis. In addition to calcium, dairy offers protein, B vitamins, selenium, phosphorus, potassium and magnesium. Most milk products are fortified with either vitamin D ...

Protein: Poultry, Meat and Seafood Poultry (chicken and turkey), meat (beef, pork, lamb and veal) and seafood are probably the main sources of protein in your diet—and for good reason. These animal sources of protein are called “complete proteins” because they contain the eight essential and non-essential amino acids required to form new proteins in the human body; this ...

Dietary Fats Though “fat” is generally used to describe people who are overweight, it is also something that eaters consume—unfortunately, it has a worse stigma than “carbohydrate” to dieters. However, dietary fats are not all bad; in fact, many provide a great source of energy and can be used by the body to produce cell membranes and eicosanoids (hormone-like ...