Posted on 02/08/2022 11:42:08 AM PST by nickcarraway
Young adults in the United States can add more than a decade to their life expectancy by changing from a typical Western diet to one that includes more legumes, whole grains and nuts, and less red and processed meat, an analysis published Tuesday by PLOS Medicine found.
For older people, the anticipated gains to life expectancy from such dietary changes would be smaller, but still substantial, the researchers said.
Young women who changed to an "optimal" diet high in fruit and vegetables and low in red and processed meats beginning at age 20 -- and stuck to it -- would add nearly 11 years to their life expectancies, the data showed.
Men could add as much as 13 years with the same dietary changes, according to the researchers.
Eating more green vegetables alone would add two to three years to life expectancy, while consuming less red meat would boost it by nearly two years, they said.
Adding more nuts and whole grains alone would add about two years to life expectancy, the researchers said.
Making these dietary changes at age 60 years could still increase life expectancy by eight years for women and nine years for men, while doing so at age 80 years boost it by between three and four years, respectively they said.
"Research until now have shown health benefits associated with separate food group or specific diet patterns," co-author Lars Fadnes said in a press release.
However, there is "limited information on the health impact of other diet changes," said Fadness, a professor of global health at the University of Bergen in Norway.
Some 11 million deaths globally each year are linked with an unhealthy diet, according to the World Health Association.
This study's findings are based on an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Diseases, a WHO-led project designed to assess the impact of poor health worldwide.
The researchers used the data to build a model that estimates the effect on life expectancy of a range of dietary changes, they said.
The model is available as a publicly available online tool called the Food4HealthyLife calculator, according to the researchers.
"Understanding the relative health potential of different food groups could enable people to make feasible and significant health gains," Fadness and his colleagues said.
The people that caused us.the obesity problem, giving basicaly the same advice. They can go Brandon themselves with a wire brush.
A new study was needed for this?
Pass me the bacon!!
So, I could stop smoking cigars, drinking, eating fatty foods and gain ten of the oldest years of my life? With no guarantee the proverbial bus won’t hit me tomorrow?
No Thanks.
Not if I can’t have TACOS!
I guess the question is do you really want to live to be 100 eating food you don’t like.
They needed this study as a way to counteract the Jab shortening lives. Lose 10yrs from the Jab, but maybe get some extra years with healthy food. Just funny timing with the study. Too many people dropping early???
I guess this bag of Oreo’s I’m sitting here munching isn’t gonna help much.
Who wants to live 10 more years if it means 10 years of munching on carrot sticks?
Diet for the desk driver who goes home to couch surf.
But the cubicle life is not for me.
Alternative for 90% of population: (1) Don’t buy fast food, and (2) Get up of that damn couch, walk 3-4 miles 3x’s/week [that’s a whole 45-60 mins], and get fit and healthy, without having to survive on kale smoothies. No one really likes that crap anyway.
Bonus: Your SinoVirus infection will last about 2-3 days, just like every other cold you’ve ever had.
Whole Grains = High Glycemic index = Sugar
Another fake study to try to convince people to stop eating meat.
“Pass me the bacon!!”
Correct. It would be 10 miserable years.
I’m getting healthier by the minute just eating popcorn and watching the Dems in action.
So... Instead of living until you’re 90, you’ll live to 100 but you’ll be eating rabbit food for the next 50 years... No thanks!
“The older I get the more I realize that partying like a rock star and living it up while you’re young is the better plan.“
I ran my first marathon in 1987.
I saw a few guys in their 70’s and 80’s faster than me.
I won’t ever forget that. Those guys were rocking the aging process.
Life isn’t shorter with bacon…..it just seems longer without…
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