{"id":81961,"date":"2018-08-22T06:27:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T13:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/healthy-diet-linked-to-healthy-cellular-aging-in-women"},"modified":"2018-08-22T06:27:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T13:27:58","slug":"healthy-diet-linked-to-healthy-cellular-aging-in-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/healthy-diet-linked-to-healthy-cellular-aging-in-women","title":{"rendered":"Healthy diet linked to healthy cellular aging in women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/healthy-diet-linked-to-healthy-cellular-aging-in-women.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Healthy diet linked to healthy aging and longer telomeres, a new study on 5000 healthy adults. Relationship significant in women. \u2026 All four diets emphasize eating plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and plant-based protein and limiting consumption of sugar, sodium and red and processed meat. Overall, the findings suggest that following these guidelines is associated with longer telomere length and reduces the risk of major chronic disease\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Eating a diet that is rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains and low in added sugar, sodium and processed meats could help promote healthy cellular aging in women, according to a new study published in the <i>American Journal of Epidemiology<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key takeaway is that following a healthy <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/diet\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">diet<\/a> can help us maintain healthy cells and avoid certain chronic diseases,\u201d said lead author Cindy Leung, assistant professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. \u201cEmphasis should be placed on improving the overall <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/quality\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quality<\/a> of your diet rather than emphasizing individual foods or nutrients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the study, researchers used <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/telomere\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">telomere<\/a> length to measure cellular aging.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-08-healthy-diet-linked-cellular-aging.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018&#45;08-healthy-diet-link...aging.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy diet linked to healthy aging and longer telomeres, a new study on 5000 healthy adults. Relationship significant in women. \u2026 All four diets emphasize eating plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and plant-based protein and limiting consumption of sugar, sodium and red and processed meat. Overall, the findings suggest that following these guidelines is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}