Posted on 12/05/2023 9:25:18 AM PST by ConservativeMind
An international team of public health specialists, addiction researchers, cardiovascular and metabolic health professionals and nutritionists has found that switching from a typical Western diet to a healthier regimen could add 10 years of life for the average middle-aged person. In their study, the group analyzed dietary data for people listed in the UK Biobank study.
Prior research has shown that unhealthy diets lead to more than 75,000 premature deaths every year in the U.K. alone. Other studies have suggested healthier eating patterns could reduce the risk of early death for people living in the U.S.
In this new effort, the research team accessed data from the UK Biobank study, a long-term study involved in investigating the contributions of genetic predisposition versus environmental exposure regarding the development of disease in people. It has been running since 2006 and involves collecting massive amounts of data from a half-million volunteers in the U.K., all of whom enrolled between the ages of 40 to 69. The plan is to follow the health of the enrollees for at least 30 years.
For this new study, the researchers looked specifically at the eating habits of all the volunteers in the databank. To learn more about the impact of eating behavior on life expectancy, they grouped people by eating patterns, noting how they shifted over the years.
By comparing outcomes of people who shifted from unhealthy to healthy eating patterns with those of people who did not shift to healthier diets, they found that a shift to healthier eating could add years to life expectancy. More specifically, they found that middle-aged people who shifted from an unhealthy diet to a healthy diet and maintained this pattern added on average nearly 10 years to their life. Switching later in life also added years, but not as many.
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Does it include Beefeater martinis with Moily Pratt vermouth?
They want us to eat bugs.
By that, they mean meat.
The Islamic Diet is superior?
Add in Intermittent Fasting and 5:2. Five days eat normal, two days eat a quarter of the number of calories. It’s better than just doing calorie restriction every day.
So eating junk food is not good for you?
Who knew????
I looked at the article so I could see what a “healthier diet” is. They didn’t say, so how can I take this “Study” seriously?
Watch Jason Fung’s or Dr. Berg’s videos on YouTube.
So you end up with Alzheimer’s the additional ten years. No thanks.
My point was that the study didn’t even define the diet they claimed was better.
Are the researchers the only people in the world that didn’t already know this?
The LAST thing any socialist government wants is people living longer.
The FIRST thing any socialist government wants is to raise taxes.
So what’s a good socialist government to do? What a quandary.
Spent alot of time in the UK. Those people are rotund and do little activity. Same here in US.
Changing diet is fine but pointless without some activity. Get up and walk 30 mins daily is enough to maintain, add in a few ‘fun’ activities once or twice a week and voila!
Won’t work in a week, though, and most people won’t commit, so the gov solution is to deny you the foods you like and back to the pharmacy for pills.
My wife started doing that for me as soon as we were married and she’s gotten even better at it after 39 years. I give her huge credit for our good health. My diet would be horrendous if I was single, have mercy.
People who’s parents are Beluga caviar when they were young live longer than people who’s parents ate collard greens when they were young. It’s a mystery...
What do people in the UK eat that could be considered healthy??
How much did that earth shattering study cost?
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