The Nation - News from Oct. 16, 1985
Older Americans eat the wrong food, take the wrong vitamins and get advice from doctors uninformed about diets, the chief of nutrition at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center said. Dr. Richard Rivlin, also a professor of medicine and chief of nutrition at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, said a lack of knowledge about diet has left half the elderly population at risk to disease and malnutrition. He spoke to a division of the American Dairy Council.
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