Mind you, I'm not talking about bread and pasta and pizza, but detailed studies
of centenarian diets show that over 80 percent of calories in their diet comes from vegetables, fruit, legumes, and complex carbohydrates, such as whole grains, brown rice, oats, and sweet potatoes.
Not exact matches
Nir Barzilai, a gerontologist at Albert Einstein College
of Medicine in New York, says that the
centenarians he studies have led him to believe that genetics is more important than
diet and lifestyle.
If you need more convincing, consider this: A large body
of literature on
centenarians shows that, all over the world, those who are 100 years old and counting follow high - carb
diets.
When we study
centenarian diets in detail, we note that over 80 percent
of calories in their
diet comes from vegetables, fruit, legumes, and complex carbohydrates, such as whole grains, brown rice, oats, and sweet potatoes.
on vegan tall tales
of spry
centenarians supposedly living on a plant based
diet:
Most studies show
centenarian diets to be pretty similar to those
of the society as a whole, while supercentenarian
diets are generally low - carb high - fat.
All one can say is that Kitavans, with their
diet of far less junk food, higher (cellulose) vegetables, high MCTs, lower protein, that may help result in short and lean stature likely secondary to lower IGF - 1and mTOR (known longevity factors in animals), with their less stressed lifestyle gives them low rates
of heart disease and diabetes but with only an average lifespan with few
centenarians, that may likely be despite eating starches than because
of it.
All one can say is that Kitavans with their
diet of far less junk food, lower protein, higher (cellulose) vegetables, high MCTs, that may help result in short and lean stature, with their less stressed lifestyle gives them low rates
of heart disease and diabetes but with an approximately average lifespan with few
centenarians.
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