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Why many older adults skip hard candy – how aging can change chewing and swallowing

  • Written by Sundeep Venkatesan, Assistant Professor of Speech and Language Pathology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Why many older adults skip hard candy – how aging can change chewing and swallowingHolidays bring people together around food. FG Trade/E+ via Getty Images

Last Easter while my children were sorting through their baskets of chocolate eggs and jelly beans, my son looked up from the table and asked a simple question:

“Why don’t Grandma and Grandpa eat candy like we do?”

It was the kind of question children ask...

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