{"id":1696801,"date":"2022-10-15T06:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T10:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696801"},"modified":"2022-10-16T17:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T21:19:26","slug":"the-best-diet-for-healthy-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-best-diet-for-healthy-aging\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Diet for Healthy Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-best-diet-for-healthy-aging%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696801&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Aging\u2013that\u2019s the subject of my book, How Not to Age. This video will give you just a taste of the vast body of evidence I\u2019m covering in the book. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p> [embedded content] <\/p>\n<p>Based on a study of more than 400,000 people, replacing just 3 percent of calories of animal protein with plant protein was associated with a 10 percent reduction in overall mortality risk. That comes out to be about an extra year of life, swapping out just 3 percent of any animal protein with plant protein, and egg protein was the worst, meaning egg whites. Swapping 3 percent of calories of egg whites for plant protein was associated with more than a 20 percent reduction in overall mortality, worse than red meat. But it\u2019s not just about adding years to your life, but life to your years. What about changes in dietary intake of animal vs. vegetable protein and unhealthy aging?<\/p>\n<p>Healthy aging is defined as \u201cthe process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables wellbeing in older age.\u201d No one wants to be just a vegetable, and you may be able to avoid that by eating more vegetables. A higher intake of vegetable protein was associated with less accumulation of deficits, based on functional impairments, self-reported health and vitality, mental health and diseases, and the use of health services.<\/p>\n<p>Swapping in just 1 percent of vegetable protein calories for animal protein led to signi\ufb01cantly less de\ufb01cit accumulation. Now, you may be thinking duh, animal protein and animal fat travel alongside each other in the same foods, so maybe this is just is all just a saturated fat effect. But no, even after accounting for fat, there still seemed to be something about the animal\u00a0versus\u00a0plant protein sources, though it\u2019s still not clear if the beneficial health effects are because of an avoidance of deleterious effects associated with animal foods, or the beneficial effects of plants\u2013\u2013though it may be a bit of both.<\/p>\n<p>A recent review in a dermatology journal on the role of a whole food, plant-based diet in preventing and reversing skin aging emphasized this point. A whole food, plant-based diet is not the same thing as just a vegan diet. You can have a terribly unhealthy vegan diet. As a physician, \u201cvegan\u201d just tells me what you don\u2019t eat; but you actually have to like eat your vegetables, too. But when you do, a whole food, plant-based diet can aid in the prevention, and in some cases reversal, of some of the leading chronic diseases in the United States, as well as the potential for younger-looking skin, due to telomere lengthening, maximizing the antioxidant potential of our cells, and also eliminating harmful carcinogens and aging toxins, known as gerontotoxins, from entering our bloodstream.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder the highest life expectancy of any formally described population in the world may be the Adventist vegetarians in Loma Linda, California, one of the five original \u201cblue zones\u201d in the world. The average life expectancy of Adventist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aging\u2013that\u2019s the subject of my book, How Not to Age. This video will give you just a taste of the vast body of evidence I\u2019m covering in the book. Check it out. 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