I run around 50 miles a week and swim 5, so if I didn’t eat plenty of carbs I would just crash. However, a long time ago I decided to stop second-guessing diet vs mortality. “Eat food1, not too much, mainly plants” - is still as valid today as it was twenty years. Perhaps more so.
Along with this you need plenty of exercise. That needs to cover:
- aerobic exercise to increase your cardio endurance,
- VO2max (short spurts of high intensity that elevates your heart rate to near maximum and leave you breathless),
- Strength - weights or resistance exercise to work your major muscle groups, and
- Stability - specifically for core muscles
Don’t smoke or take hard drugs, and if you drink alcohol do it in moderation.
That’s it - then you can sit back and relax knowing that you are doing the most you can to be able to enjoy a healthy life. We can’t always control how or even if we will arrive at old-age, but we can swing the odds heavily in our favor by the choices we make when we are young.
- Food - something you grandma would recognize as edible. Generally if you can’t pronounce it easily it’s not food.
This is all great advice, but I take issue with, “if you can’t pronounce it easily it isn’t food”. If you applied this to fruit you’d never eat any because fruit is filled with various “chemicals”, many of which people might be scared of if they read the names on a box. Obviously I’m sure that rule is meant to be taken with a grain of salt, but don’t fear things just because they have large words attached to them. Just look them up.
If you can’t pronounce it, it hasn’t been given a common name. Few things are easily pronounced when reduced to chemical names.
Alternatively become a chemist and be immune to everything
You won’t become immune to dihydrogen monoxide. That shit will kill you.
Some labeling requires that they use the chemical name, even if there is a common name. Some brands that market themselves as “organic” or “natural” also put the common name in parentheses, but just because the label doesn’t use the common name, doesn’t always mean there isn’t one.
The advice is meant to mean processed foods. It comes from the omnivores delimenia which is a pretty good book. It isn’t meant to mean “don’t eat exotic foods”
something you grandma would recognize as edible.
So sugary sweet pastas of Hungary are okay, but not east-Asian food?
As someone who wants to work in medicine, I can also attest to the fact that how you live your life is equally as important as what you consume.
As someone who wants to smoke a doobie on the ISS, I can attest to the fact that your dreams are not qualifiers for uneducated opinions.
What a trash article.
Death from any cause is referred to as “all-cause mortality” in fancy terms. It’s the depressing Game Over in the dreary video game of life.
Wow man, I dinnt know death be like that way. Game over man.
Seriously what the fuck is this article? It reeks of Big Dairy influence, but is written for 8 year olds. Truly the most garbage “article” I’ve seen all day.
Funny because I just heard on the radio that scientists found not eating carbs in mice length thier life span.
Major professional media outlets are often terrible at summarizing dense scientific research, and sometimes end up confusing correlation with causation.
Turns out student bloggers aren’t necessarily any better.
Soylent Green is made of _______?
Free-range protein!
Soy, strangely enough
was this written by AI?
