Longevity diet: How changing what you eat could add decades to your life

A new diet based on research into the body’s aging process suggests that changing what, when and how much you eat could increase life expectancy by up to 20 years

To Graham Lawton

I have seen my future. It’s full of beans, both literally and figuratively. Not only do I have more beans, but I have lots of veggies, no meat, longer hunger, and very little alcohol. I am his 52 and on my current diet I can expect to live another 29 years. But if I change now, I can earn another 10 years and live well into my 90s.

This “longevity diet” is not just a recent fad, but the result of scientific research beyond the human lifespan. And it’s not just designed to prevent disease, it’s actually designed to slow down the aging process — anyway, that’s the claim.

Of course, it’s no exaggeration to say that our diet can change our lifespan. Every year, millions of people around the world die prematurely from lack of calories and nutrients. , an estimated 11 million people die each year from too many calories and the wrong kind of nutrients. Mocking us more than we should inevitably leads to obesity and its bearers, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer. Lack of food disrupts metabolism and exacerbates injury. This includes excessive release of insulin, a hormone that controls blood sugar levels and directly affects aging. Suffice it to say that we are not pushing the longevity lever in the right direction. But is it really possible to eat yourself into the later grave? …