Named the best and worst diet for life extension

Human diet is one of the major factors determining its propensity to disease, as well as longevity. Doctors have repeatedly expressed this idea, but now she got a weighty confirmation in the form of two scientific research, the results of which are published in the journal Cell Metabolism.

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The authors of scientific studies began in one case, the US, and in other - Australian researchers. It is noteworthy that the results of their work have converged on a single aspect of the nutritionally - both sides independently came to virtually identical conclusions. These findings are as follows: the low level of consumption of animal protein prolongs life.

So the research team led by Dr. Walter Longo of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (USA) analyzed data on the health of more than 6000 people aged 50 years and older who participated in the examination of the National Health and Nutrition, conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics USA. During monitorniga researchers found that middle-aged people, the diet containing large amounts of protein, a high risk of exposure to dangerous diseases. In particular, it turned out that if people are prepared from protein 20% of calories every day, the likelihood of death from cancer or diabetes has been increased four times, and the overall mortality rate increased 2 times as compared with those in whose diet protein food was less than 10% of calories. This correlation is concerned, mainly animal protein - vegetable proteins were less harmful.

"We conducted research on simple organisms, mice and humans and obtained convincing evidence that a diet high in protein - especially animal protein - almost as much harm to health as smoking," - summed up by Walter Longo

Professionals explanation follows that the use of the protein affects the production of growth hormone, which supports metabolism in adults, but in addition facilitates growth of cancerous tumors. After 65 years, the picture changes: the level of growth hormone in the body falls, and consumption of protein foods, on the contrary, supports the body.

Australian researchers from the University of Sydney have also concluded the dangers of active protein intake within the lifespan. Scientists have kept hundreds of mice by 25 different diets and found an interesting pattern. It was found that a diet high in protein and low in carbohydrates while eliminating the increased appetite and body fat, but it shortens life and causes the development of cardiovascular and endocrine diseases. Carbohydrate diet, on the contrary, contributes to the prolongation of life, but to rely on a slim figure while it is impossible.

The most dangerous, judging by the results of this experiment turned out to be a diet low in protein and high - fat. (READ MORE)

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