Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study

Re:Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective ... by JamesBarney on Saturday August 18, 2018 @02:50PM (#17789948)

> Nobody actually knows which diets are best for longevity, as it's an impossible question to answer without a trillion dollar randomized trial. Supercentenarians eat a wide variety of diets,calorie/methionine restriction helps in some animal studies, etc.

But all of the super centenarians ate very little meat, with the exception of some fish in a few populations.

And we don't know for certain whuch diets will help you live the longest, but the knowledge and evidence we do have very heavily favors a diet that is primarily plant based, low in protein, and has very little chicken/pork/beef.

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Re:Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective ... by gif653490 on Saturday August 18, 2018 @03:57PM (#17790309)

> but the knowledge and evidence we do have very heavily favors a diet that is primarily plant based, low in protein, and has very little chicken/pork/beef.

Hong Kong has one of the highest life expectancies (Surpasses even Japan) in the world yet their cuisine is mostly based on meat, not plant-based

Furthermore not a single country from this list is a plant-based or low in protein, all of them eat alot of meat, dairy, seafood etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenarian

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Re:Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective ... by JamesBarney on Saturday August 18, 2018 @09:33PM (#17792004)

The only part of that page that discusses diet talks about how okinawa owes it's longevity to "A diet that is heavy on grains, fish, and vegetables and light on meat, eggs, and dairy products.'

If you look at the Wikipedia article for blue zones(areas with especially high levels of centenarians). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone

They mention that one of the things that unites these areas is a mostly plant based diet.

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