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Eating More of This Food Can Add 5 Years to Your Life, Study Says - Yahoo
It's not exactly a secret that eating the right foods can help you stay healthy. Research has shown that adding or removing certain things from your diet can have major benefits for your heart or brain health. Now, a new study has uncovered more evidence that what you eat can keep you alive longer, finding that one type of food in particular can add as much as five years to your life. Read on to see what you might want to start working into your meals.
The latest research, which was recently published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is the result collaborative study between the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) in Spain and The Fatty Acid Research Institute that aimed to determine if levels of omega-3 fatty acids in the blood could be used to predict death risk accurately. The team analyzed data from 2,240 people over the age of 65 collected in a long-term study called the Framingham Offspring Cohort, which has been monitoring the health of residents in a Massachusetts town since 1971. The average duration of monitoring was about 11 years per patient.
Results found that even a one percent increase of omega-3 levels in tests greatly decreased the risk of early death. "Having higher levels of these acids in the blood, as a result of regularly including oily fish in the diet, increases life expectancy by almost five years," Aleix Sala-Vila, MD, the study's author from the IMIM's Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group, said in a media release. Also, he added: "Being a regular smoker takes 4.7 years off your life expectancy, the same as you gain if you have high levels of omega-3 acids in your blood."
It's not exactly a secret that eating the right foods can help you stay healthy. Research has shown that adding or removing certain things from your diet can have major benefits for your heart or brain health. Now, a new study has uncovered more evidence that what you eat can keep you alive longer, finding that one type of food in particular can add as much as five years to your life. Read on to see what you might want to start working into your meals.
The latest research, which was recently published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is the result collaborative study between the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) in Spain and The Fatty Acid Research Institute that aimed to determine if levels of omega-3 fatty acids in the blood could be used to predict death risk accurately. The team analyzed data from 2,240 people over the age of 65 collected in a long-term study called the Framingham Offspring Cohort, which has been monitoring the health of residents in a Massachusetts town since 1971. The average duration of monitoring was about 11 years per patient.
Results found that even a one percent increase of omega-3 levels in tests greatly decreased the risk of early death. "Having higher levels of these acids in the blood, as a result of regularly including oily fish in the diet, increases life expectancy by almost five years," Aleix Sala-Vila, MD, the study's author from the IMIM's Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group, said in a media release. Also, he added: "Being a regular smoker takes 4.7 years off your life expectancy, the same as you gain if you have high levels of omega-3 acids in your blood."