How Diverse Your Diet is Truly Matters
Health News Update: How Diverse Your Diet is Truly Matters 7.7.25
Hello again everyone: Hope your summer is going well. Here is some recent research that confirming that plant-based phytonutrient consumption is associated with significantly reduced illness and death. On top of that, the research reveals that optimal benefits are only available from a diverse food plan that are eaten consistently.
Abstract
“Higher habitual intakes of dietary flavonoids have been linked with a lower risk of all-cause mortality and major chronic disease. Yet, the contribution of diversity of flavonoid intake to health outcomes remains to be investigated. Here, using a cohort of 124,805 UK Biobank participants, we show that participants who consumed the widest diversity of dietary flavonoids, flavonoid-rich foods and/or specific flavonoid subclasses had a 6–20% significantly lower risk of all-cause mortality and incidence of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, respiratory disease and neurodegenerative disease. Furthermore, we report that both quantity and diversity of flavonoids are independent predictors of mortality and several chronic diseases, suggesting that consuming a higher quantity and wider diversity is better for longer-term health than either component alone. These findings suggest that consuming several different daily servings of flavonoid-rich foods or beverages, such as tea, berries, apples, oranges or grapes, may lower risk of all-cause mortality and chronic disease.”
Bottom Line:
Consuming a diverse and predominantly plant-based food plan is necessary to get the phytonutrients needed to lower inflammation and supply the body with what it needs to promote health and longevity. No other food plan can do this. What is on your plate? Whatever it is, does it promote health and longevity? Please take the time to upgrade this part of your lifestyle if you want to live longer and feel better and have a longer healthspan. Ask yourself: what do you want for your future? What about your family, friends, and the planet?
“In conclusion, we found that a wider diversity of intake of total flavonoids, flavonoid-rich foods and/or specific flavonoid subclasses is associated with a lower risk of all-cause mortality and incidence of chronic disease, including CVD, T2DM, cancer, respiratory disease and neurodegenerative disease. We also observed that a higher quantity and wider diversity of dietary flavonoids, when consumed together, may represent the optimal approach for improving long-term health, compared with increasing either flavonoid quantity or diversity alone. Overall, our findings suggest simple and achievable dietary changes such as including several different daily servings of flavonoid-rich foods or beverages, such as tea, berries, apples, oranges or grapes, might have a major impact on population health, lowering the risk of all-cause mortality and major chronic disease.”
