Older people who eat properly are likely to live longer.

That’s the implication of a study looking at mortality and eating habits among a cohort of nearly 4,000 people 65 and older, according to Luis Afonso, MD, of Wayne State University in Detroit, and colleagues.

After an average follow-up of 13 years, participants with a good diet had lower rates of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, compared with those who had a poor diet, Afonso and colleagues reported in the Feb. 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

via Medical News:No Age Limit on Benefits of Eating Well – in Primary Care, Diet & Nutrition from MedPage Today.

I’ll take fries with that.