The first study to gauge how much longer we live based on the number of fruits and vegetables we eat suggests that a daily salad could add years to our lifespan.
Fruits, Veggies, and Longevity: How Many Minutes Per Mouthful?
Doctor's Note
Calculate Your Healthy Eating Score to see how we might maximize the intake of protective foods.
Nuts are technically just a dried fruit with (typically) a single seed, so no wonder Nuts May Help Prevent Death.
Botanically speaking, beans are fruit too. Check out Increased Lifespan from Beans.
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The more plants we eat, the more antioxidants we get. Why is this important? See The Power of NO and the Mitochondrial Theory of Aging. Or, in terms of specific diseases, see Food Antioxidants & Cancer and Food Antioxidants, Stroke, & Heart Disease.
Also, the more healthy foods we eat, the less room there is for less healthy foods:
- Harvard’s Meat & Mortality Studies
- Methionine Restriction as a Life-Extension Strategy
- Caloric Restriction vs. Animal Protein Restriction
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