I'm tired of media abusing and bullshitting people's health consciousness and wanting to know what to eat.
I'm even more appalled at the scientists who have no idea how nutrition works.
We're down to treating the body like a black box and resorting to laws of thermodynamics (aka calorie counting) or anecdotal knowledge of veggies are good cheesecake is bad. It is increasingly absurd in an era of synthesizing proteins designed to combat specific diseases that we can't tell people who want to eat healthy what to do with any scientific backing.
Eating to Break 100: Longevity Diet Tips
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Re: Eating to Break 100: Longevity Diet Tips
#12As with so many of these kinds of articles, it skips talking about what they don't eat: sugared drinks, refined carbs, industrially refined oils, factory farmed animal products, etc. etc. Living healthily is really, really simple: if it comes in a packet, don't eat it!
What's wrong with refined oil?
Seed oil is mechanically pressed from the seed. Then the remaining oil is chemically extracted from the seed meal with hexane, then the hxane is boiled off and used again. Unsaturated seed oils go rancid as part of this production process. The odor is removed from the oil with steam.
Re: Eating to Break 100: Longevity Diet Tips
#13Aside from their diet, the other factor these communities all have in common is that they are isolated, either socially or geographically, or both. Which means that their gene pool is also isolated. Which means that if they happen to have mutations that lead to long life, those mutations are likely to persist locally.
Re: Eating to Break 100: Longevity Diet Tips
#14As with so many of these kinds of articles, it skips talking about what they don't eat: sugared drinks, refined carbs, industrially refined oils, factory farmed animal products, etc. etc. Living healthily is really, really simple: if it comes in a packet, don't eat it!
What is unhealthy about factory farmed animals? Asside from maybe some growth hormones, they seem pretty much the same as regular animals.
They move much less, and have much more fat and maybe something else in them.
Re: Eating to Break 100: Longevity Diet Tips
#15As with so many of these kinds of articles, it skips talking about what they don't eat: sugared drinks, refined carbs, industrially refined oils, factory farmed animal products, etc. etc. Living healthily is really, really simple: if it comes in a packet, don't eat it!
Not only that, it is biased towards the notion thathat it is what we do and eat that makes us live longer, while not exploring the possibility that environmental factors could instead be making us live shorter. Air pollution, chemicals, or anything else really.
I'm also surprised they didn't mention how all the blue zones happen to be gorgeous environments, warm (but not too warm), sunny, with good soil, etc.