The journal Nature Medicine published a major study about a cohort of over 105,000 people followed for 30 years. This is that researchers found.
Correlation isn’t causation. But that’s still interesting.
This is the full chart from the study
I’m having a hard time believing this list.
Nuts, legumes, fruit juice, coffee, tea, fruit/berries, vegetables are all listed multiple times.
The original is in a better format. The thing from OP was extracted… somehow.
Well that makes a lot more sense, thanks.
I have a hard time believing this because it is at odds with my own diet and prejudices.
Yea, we’d need to filter out the behavioural angles to clearly identify causal relationships.
Do people who live longer just happen to start eating differently etc.
For example, the better I feel, the better I eat. It’s not the bad eating that makes me feel bad - the better eating is a consequence of feeling better.
I can tell exactly when my diet is going to tank, when my chronic conditions flare. Diet has zero effect on them.
Interesting to see beer that close to foods like fish, soy and tea
Conversely, it’s surprising to see fruit so high up, while fish and poultry are in the middle. Does this mean only vegetarian people eat healthy? Hardly believable for an omnivorous animal like humans.
Being an omnivore allows us to get calories from multiple sources, which allows us to live long enough to breed. That’s an evolutionary advantage.
After the point of breeding and raising children, evolution taps out.
So something being an evolutionary trait does not mean those traits lead to longevity. But it guarantees we’re good fuckers.
There’s debate on if humans are actually omnivores.
Very big caveat: while our primate cousins manage to eat some meat from time to time, it was our domestication of fire more than a million year ago that allowed us to access plenty of calories and nutrients from almost any food, everything was suddenly on the table, and was made easy to chew and digest. We are more omnivorous than the naturally omnivorous animals.
Oh good. I like wine and beer.
