India, Jan. 7 -- As parents grow older, concerns around heart health and metabolic issues like high blood sugar and cholesterol tend to become more common - and diet often sits at the centre of it all. While these conditions can feel inevitable with age, the right nutritional choices can go a long way in managing and even preventing them. Sometimes, it's not exotic superfoods but simple, everyday fruits that offer powerful health benefits you may not even realise.

Deepsikha Jain, a nutritionist with a Master's degree in Global Public Health Nutrition from the UK and a certified national diabetes educator, has highlighted a common yet powerful fruit - guava - that can be incorporated into your parents' daily diet to manage diabetes and su...