So your mom or someone like her always
told you to eat your vegetables.
But is it true?
You could actually by eating
your vegetables, live longer.
So nine half expert Doctor Powell
Cole is with us to talk about healthy
eating habits and a study that says
you could actually lengthen your
life significantly by your diet.
So true, my mom always told me this as well.
I never believed her, but now I do.
So it was a modeling study.
So what it did is it took people
and replaced the natural Western
diet as we like to call it,
which is high in red meat and
processed foods and instead gave
them a more plant based diet.
More fruits and vegetables.
More legumes, more nuts,
and it modeled how much longer
they would live.
And if you are a woman who
started at the age of 60,
you would add eight years to your life
so you can start late.
I was just thinking, yes, that's not
too late to the biggest benefit of
course started in there in your 20s
attenuated or got less as you got older.
But if you start at the age of 60 as a woman,
you added eight years and as a
man you added almost nine years
and isn't that simple?
Is it the eating good foods like we
know that vegetables are good for us.
We know fruits are good for us.
Is it basic eating? Good stuff?
There's nothing weird about it.
You don't have to do anything.
Aaron Rodgers E No
no. Aaron Rodgers E No everything cleanses
involved just very basic stuff which is
that you want to enrich the things that
are good for you so we always know about
fruits and vegetables but also legumes
which we talk about but I'm not sure a
lot of people understand what that is.
It's like lentils, peas and beans.
And those types of foods are rich in
vitamins and minerals, folate, iron.
So it really does help restore
natural balance.
It also adds a lot of nuts.
Which I love.
Pistachios, pecans,
so eating the right types of
foods in the right amounts is
really the recipe for longevity.
I got the nuts down. I love nuts,
but so it's kind of the Mediterranean diet.
So that's really the way we're going.
And this is overall not only extending
our lives, but also maybe preventing
heart disease and other issues as well.
Very much so. So the Mediterranean
diet and the dash diet,
which is a low sodium diet or the two
diets that have been shown to actually
reduce heart attacks and strokes.
Reduce diabetes.
Reduce obesity so this again is
not just making us live longer but
also making us live a happier,
healthier life.
But if you look at the data
only one out of 10 Americans
eats the amount of fruits,
vegetables and nuts.
Legumes,
yeah, we're not good at it.
We're not good at being told what to do.
But if you are in LA as I like to
call them a lazy lagoon avoider
you never I made that up up.
You can't just open up.
I have a have a multivitamin
and call it good.
There's a difference between what
you get out of food as opposed
to what you get out of pill.
Very different and I think the idea of
this study here is to really empower us
to know that food is our best medicine.
Taking a pill is never a substitution
for eating the right thing and if we put
the right things inside of our body,
vitamins go to our liver or liver has
to break them down. They have binders.
They could have toxins,
we could react differently to them.
So I always tell my patients
who take vitamins.
If you're eating the right things,
you should not have to take a vitamin.
How about intermittent fasting?
People are lots of people,
very fine and very successful.
And they say they feel great and
they're they're they're they're
head isn't a better space.
They feel really clear eyed every day.
What do you think?
Very true. So not only do you feel good,
you look good so it helps you lose weight
and it actually reduces cardiovascular
incidence of heart disease stroke.
So it's really favorable for your
metabolic profile now how to do it
is a little tricky. The easiest.
Is the 16 eight so you eat for 8 hours from
10:00 AM to 6:00 PM and you fast for 16?
That's what I do once a week,
usually on the weekends.
Sleep late, wake up, eat a late breakfast,
other ways to do it are to completely
abstain from eating one day a week.
I find that a little bit harder.
That sounds intense.
Yeah, or to eat all day long,
but just eat a lot less like
a lot fewer calories.
Which is also
think I'm doing it wrong.
My intermittent fasting has been
not eating much between meals.
Unaffected, or when you're sleepy?
So I think we are doing so,
so I think there's also the
fear that there are diets that
are actually dangerous for you.
If not, if not only
counterproductive or unhealthy.
Very much. In fact, some of the
diets that work like the keto diet,
for example, not at all advised by the
medical community because they get
you to lose weight really quickly,
but basically put your body
into a starvation mode.
That's a high fat diet and overtime
you're actually gaining that weight back.
And you're causing more long term
metabolic problems like raising
your triglycerides and changing
your insulin sensitivity,
affecting your sugar so it works
in the short term and a lot of
people are attracted to that,
but it is not sustainable,
tricky 'cause you look at the
outside you think that's it,
but you really have to worry about
what's going on inside as well,
and that that takes a little bit of work.
Yeah, OK? Go get your Laguna I
like. I like everything.
I eat pretty well that's that's
kind of my deal very well.
That's all good though.
We will. We'll work
on this. Thank you Doctor Kohli 'cause
we wanna live longer don't we? Why
not yeah why not because we wanna
enjoy more beautiful days like this.