B2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 19,1981 WASHINGTON, D.C. - In 1950, the average American could ex pect to live to the age of 68. Today we anticipate 73 years of life and by the year 2000 we can expect to live well into our 80s. Research has shown that good nutrition is a major contributor to health and fitness,” said Hamish Munro, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Human Nutrition Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston. Scientists at the center are studying the relationship of nutrition to the aging process. Munro said researchers are focusing on three primary questions: Does nutrition influence the rate of loss of various bodily functions as people grow older? Does nutrition influence the development of chronic disabilities associated with aging? And, what are the nutritional needs of older people? Much of the nation’s health care and social services are directed at diseases associated with aging. “The elderly as a group use health resources to a greater Lettuce seeds can be stored ATLANTA, Ga.-The best way to store lettuce seeds is to dry them to less than 7 percent moisture, seal them in moisture-proof con tainers that exclude oxygen, and then freeze them at 10 - degrees Fahrenheit, said plant physiologist Louis N. Bass with U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricult ural Research Service, Fort Collins, Colo. Bass, Director of the National Seed Storage Laboratory on the Colorado State University campus, recently addressed the 73rd annual meeting of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America. Lettuce seeds are one of the most difficult of all U.S. agricultural crop seeds to store by using conventional techniques. Special care, more than mere storage in temperature and humidity-controlled rooms, must be used to insure successful germination after storage. “Just drying lettuce seeds to less than 7 percent moisture and sealing them in moisture-proof metal cans extends storage time up to 3 years compared to 2 years for seeds stored in paper bags at room tem perature,” said Bass. By freezing at 30 degrees Fahrenheit, lettuce seeds in sealed cans still germinated after 8 years. Dropping the temperature to 10 degrees further ex tended storage to 20 years. Bass cooperated with CSU graduate student Lmdy Seip and ARS plant physiologist Eric R. Roos on the study. USDA probes role of nutrition in aging extent than other adults. In 1977, their personal health care ex penditures amounted to $41.3 billion, about 28 percent of the total for all Americans. Sixty-seven percent of the cost of health care for adults over 65 was financed by public funds,” Munro said. A $3O million nutrition research center where problems related to the aging process will be studied is under construction, with com pletion expected during 1982. The building site is adjacent to Tufts University dental, medical and veterinary schools and the New England Medical Center. USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, Tufts University, and the National Institute on Aging will cooperate in the research to be conducted there. “Not "only will nutrient requirements of the aging be in vestigated, but also the ways in which an optimal diet, in com bination with other factors— genetic constitutional, psychological, sociological and environmental may contribute to health and vigor over the I 9 I HEISEV FARM EQUIP., INC. ROI, Jonestown, PA 717-865-4526 WEAVER'S HARDWARE CO RD4125 Fleetwood, PA 215-944-7486 SHOW-EASE STALL GO. 523 Willow Rd. Lancaster, PA 717-299-2536 AffllMY, IMC. 101 Main St. Salunga, PA 717-898-2248 HOOD'S STORE, INC. 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