Staying Healthy
Crave a better appetite
Losing the desire to eat can lead to many health problems, but there are ways to make mealtime more inspiring.
Remember when you could eat almost anything, lack of hunger was never an issue, and meals were a high point of your day? But now, perhaps not so much. What has changed?
"It's common for your appetite to diminish as you age, but the problem is that this can keep you from getting enough of the vital nutrients you need and can contribute to poor health," says Vasanti Malik, a nutrition research scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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