When researchers sought to understand how the diet may have affected women’s bodies to prolong their lives, they found fewer signs of problems in the women’s blood and other body fluids that are hallmarks of diabetes and heart problems.
June 3, 2024 – Women who most closely followed the Mediterranean diet had a 20% lower risk of early death, compared to others who made different dietary choices, according to a new study led by Harvard Medical School researchers.
But interestingly, the signs of healthy body functioning most linked to a long life were different than those measured by standard blood tests given during an annual physical. Variations in a woman’s standard cholesterol panel or in glucose checks that screen for diabetes were only minimally linked to early death, the researchers reported.
“For women who want to live longer, our study says watch your diet,” senior author Samia Mora, MD, a Harvard professor of medicine and cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said in a. “The good news is that following a Mediterranean dietary pattern could result in about one-quarter reduction in risk of death over more than 25 years with benefit for both cancer and cardiovascular mortality, the top causes of death in women in the U.S. and globally.
For the study, researchers analyzed 25 years of health data for more than 25,000 women living in the U.S. The women provided detailed information about what they ate for nearly 3 years, and the researchers analyzed their health records afterward.
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