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We will examine the ways in which nutrition research, dietary practices, and the economic and social realities of food production, regulation, and policy, impact the health span of aging populations. Central themes include: (a) reveiwing intrinsic molecular mechanisms that contribute to the pathological process underlying aging and the development of cancer and chronic illness: (b) identifying agents, especially phytochemical and dietary components, that can modify these pathways: (c) examining potential lessons from the mechanisms plants have evolved for their own protection: (d) examining the role that gastrointestinal microbiota play in the relation between nutrition and disease patterns.