Excess calorie intake causes disease… Carbohydrates-proteins-calcium-vitamins must be controlled
Eating less (news) is known to slow down aging and help lead a healthy life (healthy longevity). In order to be healthy at the age of 100, they are given the task of controlling ‘appetite’. Recently, a study on the relationship between aging and diet in humans is attracting attention. What is it?
◆ After 2 years of eating with 25% fewer calories… Aging slows down by 2-3%
A study has found that fasting slows down the aging process. According to a thesis by a research team at Columbia University in the United States, published in the international journal ‘Nature Aging’, people who regularly ate a diet with a 25% reduction in calories (calories) for 2 years slowed down the aging rate by 2-3%. This equates to a 15% reduction in the risk of mortality.
The research team conducted a study of 220 normal or overweight men aged 21 to 50 and women aged 21 to 47 to examine the link between calorie intake and aging DNA. A comparison of a group eating a 25% reduced calorie diet for 2 years with a control group eating the same amount of calories as usual showed that those eating reduced calories experienced slower aging .
◆ The reason why overeating is inconvenient in old age… Is it because your body is tuned to the news?
Even in middle age, the appetite is still there, but there are cases where the body does not follow. If you eat too much, your body will suffer. Why? Because your body is different from when you were young. Digestive juices, bile, and various secretions that digest food are reduced, making digestion difficult. Even in this situation, if you cannot overcome your gluttony and overeating, your body will inevitably get sick. Aging accelerates, inflammation occurs, and health deteriorates.
◆ Excess calories cause disease… Do you only eat kimchi and rice every day?
Most centenarians cite news as the secret to longevity along with regular body movements and an optimistic personality. Scientists agree on the importance of news. This is because many diseases and cancers are caused by excessive calorie intake. Eating more and moving less is the biggest reason why colon and rectal cancer is increasing rapidly in Korea compared to the past. However, blindly eating less is not the answer. Eating only rice and kimchi every day because it’s tiring or lack of money can harm your health due to the lack of major nutrients such as protein and fat.
◆ Carbohydrates in an appropriate amount… Pay attention to protein-calcium vitamins, etc.
After the age of 40, muscles naturally decline. Especially in women, estrogen (a female hormone) decreases during menopause, which greatly reduces bone density. We must deal with it here. Carbohydrates such as rice should be eaten in an appropriate amount, but you should pay attention to protein which is good for muscles and calcium which is good for bones. It is good to maintain muscles by eating meat in a way that does not burn and boil and eat eggs, beans and tofu often.
The highest age group for calcium deficiency is women in their 50s (Ministry of Health and Welfare survey). Milk yogurt and other dairy products, bone-in fish, sea radish, etc. Eat a lot of calcium-rich food regularly, and expose your bare skin to sunlight for about 20 minutes in the morning. to make vitamin D so that calcium is absorbed more quickly. Eating raw vegetables and fruit, which are full of antioxidants that reduce oxidation (ageing) of the body, is also useful for a healthy life.
