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Meta-analysis: you can reduce your mortality risk by a factor of 5 through your diet
If you eat optimal quantities of healthy types of food - such as beans, fruit, vegetables and nuts - and eliminate from your diet unhealthy categories such as red and processed meat and soft drinks that contain fast sugars, you can reduce your chance of dying by perhaps as much as 80 percent. Researchers at the German Institute of Human Nutrition write about this in an article published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Study
There's nothing in the information below about refined grain products, as the researchers found no positive or negative effects of these.
Results
The effect of dairy products was less clear. Consumption of one portion per day slightly reduced the mortality risk, 2-3 portions per day had no effect, and a higher intake increased the mortality risk.
Red meat, intensively processed meat products, eggs and soft drinks, with or without added sugar, increased the mortality risk.
The researchers then used these data to calculate the total potential effect of an optimally compiled diet - with optimal quantities of the healthy products and as few as possible unhealthy products. The total effect, as the figures below show, was considerable.
Conclusion
"To obtain a complete picture, it seems useful to extend the type of food groups and the clinical end points to be considered. We will in the future develop methods that are able to rank foods and diseases according to their contribution to the prevention of chronic diseases."
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