Nutritional method
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International Application No: PCT/EP2006/063229 Publication Date: 21.12.2006 International Filing Date: 14.06.2006. A method of improving nutrition and/or treating low grade inflammation in an elderly human subject comprises administering to said subject a cysteine source so as to provide metabolically available cysteine in the diet of said subject in a proportion relative to all available amino acids which is greater that the proportion of cysteine relative to all amino acids which corresponds to the requirements of a healthy young human subject.