02/18/2026
There is perhaps one thing that the Internet, your mom and scientists agree on: eating lots of fruits and vegetables is good for you. But according to a new study, following any one of five diets that are rich in these foods and some others could also boost your lifespan.
By following more than 100,000 people in the U.K. for years, researchers found that people whose food choices scored high in any one of five diet categories tended to live longer than people who scored the lowest. Specifically, the team found that even after adjusting for confounding factors—such as whether people smoked, how much exercise they took and what their education and ethnicity was—study participants who tended to eat according to any one of the five diets were 18 to 24 percent less likely to die of any cause.
For women, that roughly translated into an extra 1.5 to 2.3 years of life. And for men, it added about 1.9 to three years. The findings were published on Friday in the journal Science Advances. http://spklr.io/6045Ddfdx
✍: Jackie Flynn Mogensen
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