Individual dietary choices can add – or take away – minutes, hours and years of life

A remarkable new study calculates individual foods impact on your health and the environment, expressed as "minutes of life lost or gained per serving size of each food item consumed".

Substituting only 10% of daily caloric intake of beef and processed meats for a diverse mix of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes and select seafood could reduce the dietary carbon footprint of a U.S. consumer by one-third, and add 48 healthy minutes of life PER DAY! This is a substantial improvement for such a limited dietary change.

For instance, eating one hot dog costs a person 36 minutes of “healthy” life. In comparison, eating 30 grams of nuts and seeds provides a gain of 25 minutes of healthy life – thus an increase in good-quality and disease-free life expectancy.

They repeated this calculation for more than 5,800 foods, and color-coded each food item like a traffic light, green foods have beneficial effects on health and a low environmental impact and should be increased in the diet, while red foods should be reduced. Yellow are in moderation.

Notably, among plant-based foods, greenhouse-grown vegetables scored poorly on environmental impacts due to the combustion emissions from heating.

Read about all the foods, and details of the study here: https://theconversation.com/individual-dietary-choices-can-add-or-take-away-minutes-hours-and-years-of-life-166022

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