You've probably already heard that fruits, vegetables, nuts and beans are good for you. But obviously you can add bread, pasta, and mashed potatoes — along with some baked goods and pizza — to that list.
So he says A new clinical study The study, led by Tufts University researchers, is to be published this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The study is based on a survey of 48,000 women over the age of 32.
Researchers found that those who ate diets high in plant-based protein were 46% more likely to be healthy later in life than those who did not. That means they're more likely to avoid conditions like heart disease, cancer and diabetes, as well as cognitive and mental health declines.
It also does not apply to people who consume a lot of animal-based proteins such as meat, fish and cheese.
Top sources of plant-based protein named in the study include bread, vegetables, fruit, mashed potatoes, nuts, beans, peanut butter, pasta and pizza, cereals and baked goods.
“Protein intake in middle age is linked to improved health in older adults,” study lead author Andrés Artisan Koret, a researcher at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, said in a statement. “We found that protein source is also important. Getting most of your protein from plant sources in midlife, and small amounts of animal protein seems to be optimal for good health and survival in older adults.
But… pizza? Baked goods? When contacted by phone, Ardisson Korat said the findings should not be misinterpreted. Bread, pizza, and baked goods appear on the list because they are staples of the American diet and because they contain gluten, a plant-based protein. “That doesn't mean everything is there [the list] Healthy, though [those items] integrated into the group of plant-based proteins,” he said.
In other words, eating a lot of pizza isn't very good for you, but if you do have pizza, as many of us do, the plant-based proteins in it are good for you.
The research was based on the Nurses' Health Study, a long-term observational study of female health professionals. The researchers studied a group of women from 1984 to 2016. People were aged 38 to 59 at the start of the study and aged 70 to 91 at the end, if they were still alive.
Researchers looked at people who were healthy and those who weren't and compared their diets. Study participants completed surveys of their food consumption every four years.
The study has some obvious limitations: It was observational and based on self-reported nutritional data. The majority of the study participants were white women, raising questions about whether the findings would apply to people of other ethnic backgrounds or to men.
Innovations are also relative. Eating bread and pizza might be better for you than, say, bacon double cheeseburgers—but that doesn't mean you're better off eating bread and pizza than beans, salads, and fruit.
That doesn't mean eating more of these foods is better than eating less of them overall. Other studies have found that calorie restriction — not eating too much — is good for you One of the National Institutes of Health And One from Columbia University.
Science, by nature, is a continuous process of inquiry and experimentation. Another recent study He argued that vegetarians, vegans and pescatarians are doing much better with Covid than omnivores, but this has already A sharp refusal.
But the latest innovation is good news for fans of thin-crust pizzas with whole-grain bases, small amounts of cheese and lots of fresh ingredients. A large deep-dish pizza is not good for those who love processed meats covered. Common sense, as usual, is useful. While a slice of pizza is better for you than a cheeseburger, a healthy salad is even better.
