Fruits, Veggies, and Longevity—How Many Minutes Per Mouthful?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2014-05-30

The first study to gauge how much longer we live based on the number of fruits and vegetables we eat suggests that a daily salad could add years to our lifespan.

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Calculate Your Healthy Eating Scores (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/calculate-your-healthy-eating-score/) to see how one might maximize the intake of protective foods.
Nuts are technically just a dried fruit with (typically) a single seed so no wonder Nuts May Help Prevent Death (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/nuts-may-help-prevent-death).
Botanically speaking beans are fruit too. Check out Increased Lifespan From Beans (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/increased-lifespan-from-beans/).
The more plants we eat the more antioxidants we get. Why is this important? See The Power of NO (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-power-of-no/) and the Mitochondrial Theory of Aging (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/mitochondrial-theory-of-aging/). Or in terms of specific diseases, Food Antioxidants and Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-antioxidants-and-cancer) and Food Antioxidants, Stroke, and Heart Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-antioxidants-stroke-and-heart-disease).

Also, the more healthy foods we eat, the less room there is for less healthy foods:
• Harvard's Meat and Mortality Studies (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/harvards-meat-and-mortality-studies/)
• Methionine Restriction as a Life Extension Strategy (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/methionine-restriction-as-a-life-extension-strategy/)
• Caloric Restriction vs. Animal Protein Restriction (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/caloric-restriction-vs-animal-protein-restriction)

Image Credit: Brian Arthur, Palosirkka, Sasa Stefanovic, Hindustanilanguage, Borgx, Nard the Bard, and Sasa Stefanovic via Wikimedia; and HolgersFotografie, Johanna84, and PDPics via Pixabay.

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