Changing Your Diet Could Add Up to 13 Years to Your Life, Study Says

[Michie]

Small changes in our diets could reduce mortality from heart disease and cancer such that it adds 10-13 years to our lives.

Large dietary studies are often somewhat useless, as the larger they become, the more impossible for them to replicate real-world scenarios and depict the genetics of who they’re surveying.

However, a large meta-analysis has found that, if a 20 year-old woman replaces refined grains with legumes and whole grains, and increases her intake of fish and nuts, she is likely to add 10 years of life expectancy vis-à-vis heart disease and cancer, while a 20 year-old man could add 13 years to their life expectancy.

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Changing Your Diet Could Add Up to 13 Years to Your Life, Study Says

 

[The Narrow Way]

Small changes in our diets could reduce mortality from heart disease and cancer such that it adds 10-13 years to our lives.

Large dietary studies are often somewhat useless, as the larger they become, the more impossible for them to replicate real-world scenarios and depict the genetics of who they’re surveying.

However, a large meta-analysis has found that, if a 20 year-old woman replaces refined grains with legumes and whole grains, and increases her intake of fish and nuts, she is likely to add 10 years of life expectancy vis-à-vis heart disease and cancer, while a 20 year-old man could add 13 years to their life expectancy.

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Changing Your Diet Could Add Up to 13 Years to Your Life, Study Says

Perhaps that is why WHOLE GRAINS are the FOUNDATION of any good FOOD PYRAMID. I'm a huge believer in WHOLE GRAINS. I never buy anything with refined flour or grains....I grind all my own flour.....so much healthier and better tasting

 

[Skye1300]

That is why I became vegan. The WHO labels all meat as carcinogenic. Whole food plant based is the best way to eat. Ditch the meat and processed food.

 

[ElCamino]

One thing these studies often fail to mention (I didn't read this one) is that making such dietary changes not only have the potential of prolonging your life; they can IMPROVE your life RIGHT NOW.

 

[Lost4words]

I beg to differ...

Nothing wrong in whole gain marrow bones!