Mediterranean diet reduces social isolation and anxiety in adult female nonhuman primates

The elderly population faces unique dietary challenges. For example, the influence of factors such as a companion’s physical presence on eating and cardiovascular health in a geriatric population remains poorly understood. Thus, Han-Gyo et al. (2022) set out to investigate potentially existing differences in health habits, nutrition, and the odds of suffering from cardiovascular diseases […]

Social isolation is known to influence both health and longevity, but its effect on dietary habits—particularly over time and across genders—remains less understood. This study by Mehranfar et al. (2025) followed adults aged 45 and older from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, focusing on how changes in social isolation and social activity diversity from […]