Your eating patterns may help predict your lifespan. Here is the new conclusion. study It was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association evaluating diet quality and mortality. The study found that people who ate a more nutritious diet were less likely to die prematurely.
The dietary habits of 119,315 individuals (75,230 females and 44,085 males) were assessed over 36 years from nurse health surveys and health care professional follow-up studies. During that period, they assessed adherence and outcomes associated with four different dietary patterns. U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
The four eating patterns analyzed were:
- of Healthy Eating Index 2015 (HEI)measures dietary quality and adherence, and utilizes the guidelines in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans in scoring assessments.
- The Alternative Healthy Diet Index (AHEI) created by researchers at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health as an alternative to the original HEI. Like the HEI, it provides a score, but focuses on reducing the risk of chronic disease.
- The Alternative Mediterranean Diet (AMED), which measures adaptation to the principles of the Mediterranean diet.
- Healthy Plant-Based Diet Index (HPDI), which measures adherence to a healthy plant-based diet.