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Life expectancy can increase up to 10 years by shifting towards healthier diets

by pieter_mj on 11/25/23, 12:01 PM with 33 comments

  • by rthnbgrredf on 11/25/23, 8:05 PM

    After traditional diets either failed or provided only temporary success, I've discovered a personalized approach that combines elements from various diets. This allows me to handle the rules of each individual diet more flexibly. My strategy includes:

    • Eat more protein. (low carb)

    • Eat less. (calories restriction)

    • Skip breakfast. (intermediate fasting)

    Pick two of these rules every day.

  • by talldatethrow on 11/25/23, 7:04 PM

    I got downvoted heavily last time I mentioned this on HN, but I have done 90 days on fresh vegetable juice several times in my life, and it feels amazing. I've gotten several 60+ year old people to try it, including my father, and all achieve great weight loss (30-45 lbs). One 63 year old male even had blood work done before and after, and even though he lived on only vegetable and fruit juice for 90 days, basically ALL his metrics improved. Even glucose and A1C improved, which shocked his doctor since he was living on basically only sugar for 90 days.
  • by derbOac on 11/25/23, 2:32 PM

    Interesting although not entirely surprising results.

    Some aspects of the results were hard for me to interpret though. Although some risk seemed to increase in a dose dependent way, some didn't. For example, with refined grains once you got out of the lowest quintile, your risk went up but it didn't seem to be dose dependent. So the gains were in eliminating refined grains or not? Sugar consumption though was different: there seemed to be gains to any reduction in sugar. I wonder if those kinds of nonlinearities would replicate or not.

  • by doubled112 on 11/25/23, 2:15 PM

    I believe it, but there will always be that problem where a head of lettuce was $8 and an entire Big Mac combo was $12.
  • by ncjcuccy6 on 11/25/23, 2:04 PM

    Eat more protein to lose weight. Avoid seed oils and oxalic acid containing foods for health.
  • by underseacables on 11/25/23, 3:54 PM

    Related: The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

    https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinar...

  • by mediumsmart on 11/26/23, 5:08 AM

    1 meal per day six times a week.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RuOvn4UqznU