I know, right?
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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I might switch to that, I’ve been doing 14/10 for a couple months now, but seemed to have plateaued.
Fish & Chips (fries) with Guiness :)
...or just 5 pints.
Who wants to add 10 years to 80 or 90? Not me.
Most people will be fortunate to have food at the things are going.
One thing you need to do is to vary the times when you eat, don’t have your feeding window the same time every day.
That's one of the benefits of a low-carb diet, it's been shown to help prevent Alzheimers.
“Study suggests changing to a healthier diet could add ten years to your life.”
In today’s world, what’s the up side to adding 10 years to your life?
That’s all well and good but what is the quality of life for those last 10 years. We’ve all seen relatives or people we know suffer through the last years of their life. I would not want to stretch that 3-5 years of low quality of for 10 years of the same.
sometimes quality trumps quantity
Or even flavorful?
I know, right?
“ Are the researchers the only people in the world that didn’t already know this?”
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Well, they’re among the few getting paid to come to that conclusion. ;-)
Yes! Who defines what this “healthy diet” might be?
So many opinions, so many manipulated and cherry picked statistics, all paid for by big Pharma and big corporations selling genetically modified crap, not to mention big controlled western medicine.
How many people really understand that our doctors are totally controlled by the above, and have no nutritional training to speak of in medical school, or ongoing education.
Nutritionists are also controlled, both in their education and their practice.
I dont trust any of these so-called “healthy diet” studies any more.
We never went off the healthy diet. We are in great shape. Tonight we’re having London broil baked potato and spinach salad. Well and Lava Cake stout. 😆
One aspect of nutrition that seems odd, is that chiropractors seem to have a better grasp on the subject of nutrition than pharmacological practitioners. And I have never gone to a Chiropractor's.
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