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May 27

How to live longer: The best diet hailed by health experts to increase life expectancy – Express

The Western diet and lifestyle which includes consumption of processed foods such as burgers and little to no exercise are often viewed as two of the main contributors to rapid ageing and disease.

Vegans and vegetarians live longer and have lower mortality rates.

They also tend to have healthier gut profiles with a reduced abundance of pathogenic gut bacteria and greater abundance of protective species.

Those who followed this way of eating also had lower blood pressure, lower incidence of heart disease, lower overall cancer incidence and have a lower risk of developing diabetes.

Vegan, vegetarian and plant-based diets eliminate all animal-based foods including meat, dairy and eggs.

This usually results in a diet which is rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds.

Numerous researches suggest that diets loaded with these plant foods help to increase life expectancy.

Moreover, these diets tend to pack plenty of fibre, plant protein and antioxidants.

Diets rich in these nutrients are believed to safeguard against obesity, diabetes, cancer and heart disease which in turn promote increased life expectancy.

In a study with the National Library of Medicine, cardiovascular disease mortality and cancer incidence in vegetarians was analysed.

The study noted: The objective of the present analysis was to investigate cardiovascular disease mortality and cancer incidence among vegetarians and nonvegetarians.

Participants were from the UK, Germany, USA, the Netherlands and Japan.

The study concluded that all-cause mortality in vegetarians was 9 percent lower in nonvegetarians with the mortality from ischemic heart disease being significantly lower in vegetarians than in nonvegetarians.

Our results suggest that vegetarians have a significantly lower ischemic heart disease mortality and overall cancer incidence than nonvegetarians, it added.

Vegan, vegetarian and plant-based diets contain the best types of food to eat.

Fruit and vegetables contain protective bioactive compounds such as antioxidants, polyphenols, fibre, vitamins and minerals.

Whole grains are rich in phytochemicals, trace minerals and protein with whole grains helping to lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

Plant-based proteins such as beans, legumes and pulses help to lower LDL'bad'cholesterol which reduces cancer risk and nuts and seeds contain a variety of vitamins and minerals which reduce risk of cancer mortality.

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