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.
I guess the question is do you really want to live to be 100 eating food you don’t like....
And living with people who are horse’s rear ends with all their woke crap infesting everything in life now-
No thanks-
Don’t eat meat...but no mention of sugar?
Gee, UPI, a vegan activist/propaganda article?
How about compare that to cutting out sugar and intermittent fasting, hmm?
You don’t really live longer, but it feels like it! ;-P
#1 - don’t be fat.
Good Idea, more BACON. Avoiding good food just makes you think you are living longer.
Who wants an additional 10 years in this world based on what’s coming.
I'm 74, and already outlived the rest of my family. They all smoked, and most of them died well before 74, so I'm living on borrowed time. I never smoked, but have my own health issues that none of them were diagnosed with. I'm currently nursing a depression fracture on the right tibia. The 16" knee immobilizer they gave me gives me pain in the hip and leg that I didn't have before the break. I'm supposed to sleep with it on, but when my hip starts aching, off it comes. I'm not supposed to bend the knee, but have to be able to drive my car when I need to mail a package, or go to a doctor's appointment. Neither of my sons lives near me, so do for myself as I've always done. I ended up having to get my groceries delivered to my top floor apartment. To sooth my aching hip today, after hitting the post office, I drove to Arby's, and bought myself one of their large chocolate milk shakes. That will make everything feel better.
I learned a long time ago, that if you don't treat yourself, nobody else is going to do it for you. My weakness is Hostess Chocolate Cupcakes, but because I'm diabetic, I have to ration them. Only one at a time, and I try to keep the count down to about 3 or less a week.
WHO lied about the cooties.
WHO lies about the notavax.
What does that say about their advice on diet?
Sounds like the approach for women at least should be to chow down on red and processed meats from age 20 to 60, then switch to the crunchy greens. Forty years of not being miserable would still add 8 years of life, even if not the max 11.
Exactly the opposite of what a healthy diet should be. Sheesh.
“changing from a typical Western diet to one that includes more legumes, whole grains and nuts, and less red and processed meat”
My maternal grand parents were from Romania and always hired elderly Hungarian and Romanian men to work on their farm. Their diets for lunch and supper always consisted about 10 oz of red wine and meat of all kinds. Their breakfast almost always consisted of eggs and bacon or sausage. They all lived well into their late 80s and early 90s. Their secret? Hard work.
Sounds like low carb worked for them.
The way I’m going, I’ll live to 410; it’ll be those vodka martoonies that’ll be my undoing.
My mid-80s mother eats only meat and legumes. She doesn’t have to take a single pill, not one.
Meanwhile, my 90+ yo potato chip, candy bar eating couch potato FIL has to suck down 15 pills a day. He’s practically immobile, while my mom is out birding every day and insists on taking care of her own garden.
Glad the FIL is alive, but he’d have had a much higher quality of life over the past 20+ years if he’d have cut the carbs.
This “advice” spewed by the medical establishment about red meat is bull sh*t absent any reference to carbs.
You are such a pilot.
Too late for me. WHERE’S THE BEEF?
Speaking as one who had a midday snack of broccoli with a glass of water...you're right, that would not be cool at all.
Now, I like broccoli. I like water. An extra 10 years might be nice as long as I don't have to spend them being a slave to a Chinese soldier. However, the Lord gave us chocolate for a reason.
Besides, you don't want to be a zealot, not about food anyway. That's just nerdy.
Sugar and soy, I suspect. They're in everything and they're poison. They're even in the pills! They wreak havoc on metabolism.
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