Eat to Live Longer

Can you eat to increase your chances of living longer? Are there foods you can eat more or less of that will decrease your chances of getting type 2 diabetes, stroke or heart disease? Yes, there are foods to increase in your diet and foods to decrease. Have you ever seen the movie, Lost Horizon ? The actors find themselves in a fictional location called Shangri-La. In Shangri-La people live a long time, up to 200 years old. And they age ever so slowly. Well, they haven’t found a real Shangri-La yet, but researchers are finding foods linked to major diseases and foods linked to living a longer life. So, what are the eating habits that could shorten your life and what are the eating habits that decrease your risk of disease and hopefully lead to a longer life? An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association notes there are 10 food categories that we either eat too much of or too little o...