Women on a Mediterranean diet live significantly longer: study

Women who follow a Mediterranean diet live significantly longer, according to a new study.

The Mediterranean diet often consists of a higher consumption of foods and ingredients such as olive oil, fruit, fish, nuts and vegetables and a lower consumption of red meat and sweets.

“In this cohort study of [25,315] women followed for 25 years, greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet was associated with a 23% reduction in the risk of all-cause mortality,” according to the study, published Friday in the medical journal JAMA Network Open.

The study said factors such as inflammation, insulin resistance and body mass index contributed to explaining this lower risk, with only “minimal contributions from standard cholesterol or glycemic measurements.”

The study also noted, however, that “most of the potential benefit of adherence to the Mediterranean diet and morality remains unexplained, and future studies should examine other pathways that could potentially mediate the reduction in mortality associated with the Mediterranean diet, as well as examine specific causes”. mortality.”

Research from March last year found that a Mediterranean diet could help reduce the risk of dementia, even among people at higher genetic risk. The study analyzed data from 60,298 individuals followed for an average of nine years, with researchers finding that those who followed diets similar to the Mediterranean diet had up to a 23% lower risk of dementia.

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