How to add 10 years to your life
The healthful plant-based diet that Seventh-day
Adventists eat has been associated with an extra decade of life expectancy. It
has also been linked to reduced rates of diabetes and heart disease. Adventists’
diet is inspired by the Bible — Genesis 1:29. (“And God said: ‘Behold, I have
given you every herb yielding seed . . . and every tree, in which is the fruit
of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food.’ ”) But again, the key
insight might be more about social structure than about the diet itself. While
for most people, diets eventually fail, the Adventists eat the way they do for
decades. How? Adventists hang out with other Adventists. When you go to an
Adventist picnic, there’s no steak grilling on the barbecue; it’s a vegetarian
potluck. No one is drinking alcohol or smoking. As Nicholas Christakis, a
physician and social scientist at Harvard, found when examining data from a
long-term study of the residents of Framingham, Mass., health habits can be as
contagious as a cold virus. By his calculation, a Framingham individual’s
chances of becoming obese shot up by 57 percent if a friend became obese. Among
the Adventists we looked at, it was mostly positive social contagions that were
in circulation.
I don't intend to become Adventist, but a bit more veggan i think i will try. With a twist. A cup of 2 of red wine a day.
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