{"id":67978,"date":"2024-08-07T14:58:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T18:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=67978"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:12:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T20:12:31","slug":"batsis-cnn-interview-what-people-should-know-about-healthy-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/batsis-cnn-interview-what-people-should-know-about-healthy-aging\/","title":{"rendered":"Batsis to CNN: What People Should Know About Healthy Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_48058\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 160px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-48058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2020\/11\/Batsis-John.tdi_-scaled-e1606768582882-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. John A. Batsis\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">John Batsis, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a recent interview with CNN, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/people\/john-a-batsis-md\/\">Dr. John Batsis<\/a> listed a few things everyone should know about healthy aging. Specifically, he listed things that people can do now to help ensure they remain in good health into their later years.<\/p>\n<p>Batsis said that proper nutrition along with regular physical activity and exercise are critically important for maintaining health into one&#8217;s later years. In addition to those things, he said a very important third factor is maintaining social connections.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Batsis also explained that, &#8220;Healthy aging can occur at any stage of life. It\u2019s not only as a young adult or middle-aged adult, not only around retirement age. It still can occur well into one\u2019s 80s and 90s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/12\/health\/geriatrician-healthy-aging-wellness\/index.html\">Read the full CNN interview here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview with CNN, Dr. John Batsis listed a few things everyone should know about healthy aging. Specifically, he listed things that people can do now to help ensure they remain in good health into their later years. 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