Changing your diet could add up to a decade to life expectancy, study finds
A young adult in the U.S. could add more than a decade to their life expectancy by changing their diet from a typical Western diet to an optimized diet that includes more legumes, whole grains and nuts, and less red and processed meat, according to a new study publishing Feb. 8 inby Lars Fadnes of the University of Bergen, Norway, and colleagues. For older people, the anticipated gains to life expectancy from such dietary changes would be smaller but still substantial.
For young adults in the United States, the model estimates that a sustained change from a typical Western diet to the optimal diet beginning at age 20 would increase LE by more than a decade for women and men . The largest gains in years of LE would be made by eating more legumes , more whole grains , and more nuts , less red meat and less processed meat . Changing from a typical diet to the optimized diet at age 60 years could still increase LE by 8.0 years for women and 8.
"Understanding the relative health potential of different food groups could enable people to make feasible and significant health gains," the authors say."The Food4HealthyLife calculator could be a useful tool for clinicians, policy makers, and lay-people to understand the health impact of dietary choices."
Fadnes adds,"Research until now have shown health benefits associated with separate food group or specific diet patterns but given limited information on the health impact of other diet changes. Our modeling methodology has bridged this gap."
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