It would be useful for mainstream magazines like Time, etc. to publish articles how a person's diet does need to change as they age when their normal metabolism slows down, etc. Not just women over 50 need xxxx calories. Doesn't help much since it's the composition of those calories and nutrients that are more important.

Or if one wants to "treat' themselves occasionally, when the best time period of the day to have such a treat. (ie. much earlier in the day).

Also to follow up on the arthritis topic thread elsewhere, the value of exercise for not just weight control, but reduction of other problems over time, is not even addressed at all in article.

Nor did article remind people, the general rule of thumb is to only eat feeling 80% full.

I am though, genuinely puzzled by some people who don't exercise much but do eat carefully and healthily. Like my 80 yr. old father. Methinks the only exercise he does is 25 min. round trip walk to the store several times a wk. to buy a paper or housework and light yardwork (raking, sweeping) with my mother. He is at the right weight, no cardiovascular/respiratory problems, etc. He rarely eats sweets/hardly any sugar in diet, no drinking nor smoking.

It also bums me out that he eats double the amount of white rice at his age with no negative effect, whereas I can't do eat that same amount without feeling like lousy because of blood sugar spike.