• A healthy diet has long been linked to living into old age - and you don’t have to adhere to it perfectly to reap the benefitsSolStock/Getty Images A healthy diet has long been linked to living into old age - and you don’t have to adhere to it perfectly to reap the benefits SolStock/Getty Images Five dietary patterns have been associated with living years longer, regardless of someone’s genetic risk factors for disease, in a study of more than 100,000 people. • “If you want to live a long life, it’s definitely worth trying to have a healthier dietary pattern, and the good news is that it doesn’t have to be absolutely perfect,” saysClare Collinsat the University of Newcastle in Australia, who wasn’t involved in the study. • Read moreA longevity diet that hacks cell ageing could add years to your life Read more A longevity diet that hacks cell ageing could add years to your life Advertisement Yanling Lvat Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China and her colleagues looked at the association between diet and longevity by analysing data from 103,000 participants in the UK Biobank study. • The individuals were scored based on how closely they reported adhering to five previously validated healthy diets: a Mediterranean-typediet, a plant-based diet, the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet, the DRRD (Diabetes Risk Reduction Diet), and the AHEI (Alternative Healthy Eating Index). • These five diets vary slightly in their approach, but in general, “they’re all recommending high intakes and a big variety of vegetables and fruit, they’re all recommending whole grain intake, they’re all recommending lean sources of protein, and many of those are vegetarian proteins”, says Collins. • They also recommend steering away from sugary drinks and ultra-processed foods.

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  • Five dietary patterns have been associated with living years longer, regardless of someone’s genetic risk factors for disease, in a study of more than 100,000 people. “If you want to live a long life, it’s definitely worth trying to have a healthier dietary pattern, and the good news is that it doesn’t have to be absolutely perfect,” says Clare Collins at the University of Newcastle in Australia, who wasn’t involved in the study. Advertisement Yanling Lv at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China and her colleagues looked at the association between diet and longevity by analysin

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