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Sixty-three health professionals say the best anti-aging strategies after 60 aren’t pricey gadgets or supplements but free basics: regular movement, a nutrient-dense real-food diet, high-quality sleep, and strong social connections. Biohacks and luxe longevity tests rank low, underscoring that aging well comes from daily habits and staying connected rather than buying solutions.
USDA Secretary Brooke L. Rollins highlights in a Hill op-ed the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2025-2030, emphasizing eat-real-food, affordable, and flexible dieting, with steps to broaden access via SNAP stocking standards, updates to federal feeding programs, and the RealFood.gov initiative; the guidelines aim to make healthy options available to all households, noting meals can cost as little as about $3 each and outlining support for rural communities and farm families.
Public-health expert Ezekiel J. Emanuel argues against wellness hype and offers six practical shifts: replace extreme trends with steady movement (about 150 minutes weekly), eat with others and cook real food while limiting ultra-processed snacks, ditch obsessive habit-tracking and screen-time rules, view wellness as just one part of a full life not the sole focus, and build cognitive and social richness through hobbies and diverse mental activities to sustain healthy habits with pleasure and consistency.
U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture and Health and Human Services announced new Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2025-2030, emphasizing the importance of eating real foods like protein, dairy, vegetables, and fruits, while reducing processed foods to combat chronic diseases and improve national health.
The demonization of processed foods is unnecessary as there are different levels of refinement in our supermarket shelves. Sports nutrition products are ultra-processed foods that provide quick simple energy, while "real food" fueling like bananas or dried fruits contain essential nutrients but may cause gastrointestinal distress during exercise. The choice between the two comes down to personal preference, tolerability, and affordability. In training, fueled is best, and as intensity increases, so often does the need for more simple-sugar fueling strategies.