You can add seven years to your life even if you are already in your 70s by changing your diet, say nutritionists.
“My clients often say: I’m eating the same and doing the same exercise as I always have, but I can’t seem to maintain my body as it was,” she says. “But the way we react to food changes through our life course, depending on things like hormones, and if we understand that we can be kinder to ourselves.”
That we need to eat a variety of plants is not news to most of us. But one of the more surprising facts in the book is that our gut microbes could dictate who we fall in love with.“Some of the gut microbes are translocated through the lymph to sites in the armpits and the groin. They help you choose your partner through chemical messages, like smell,” says Dr Amati.
Dr Federica Amati with her first book, Every Body should Know This: The Science of Eating for a Lifetime of Health.Key fact: A man’s diet is as important as the woman’s when it comes to fertility She argues that human breast milk has a unique nutritional profile. It’s filled with fibres called oligosaccharides and “bioactive compounds” that prime the immune system and set a baby up for life. But the UK has the lowest rate of breastfeeding in the world, with only 1 per cent of mothers still exclusively breastfeeding at six months. “Women think that the health outcomes are the same and that’s when I get annoyed.
“Skeletal muscle is a huge organ that secretes hormones, acting like a huge endocrine system that keeps us healthy,” says Dr Amati. “It’s important for a healthy metabolism, for mental health and sleep. Building up lean mass and healthier fat mass in your 30s and 40s is a good insurance policy for your 80s and 90s. I talk about health as the only currency that has a guaranteed return on investment.
Some doctors refer to the period between 50 and 70 as the grim sounding “Sniper’s Alley”. That’s because this is the time when the effects of the previous decades start to make themselves felt and people start to die. “Not from car accidents or terrible early-onset cancers, but from preventable things like heart attacks, Type 2 diabetes and strokes, 80 per cent of which could be prevented with diet and lifestyle changes.
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