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I want to live to 92
Will the Food4healthylife project grant me my wish?
Courtesy of Grubby.co.uk
Lars Fadnes from the University of Bergen and the lead author of a recently published healthy life report, has developed a new predictive model which demonstrates how dietary choice affects life expectancy.
What caught my eye was the news that a 60 year old man, sticking to an optimal diet could add 9.1 years of life expectancy. If I ditch a traditional western diet, which presumably means a lot less meat and sugar and optimise with a lot more legumes, vegetables and fruits, my likely death in my eighties has now been bumped to my nineties.
Why 92?
My tongue in cheek pact is with my children. Although, being the ever competitive one, I’ve been taking my commitment to live longer more seriously than they might have expected. 30th December 2053 is the precise time I have to get to. It happens to be Finlay’s 50th birthday, his two sisters reaching the milestone a few years earlier. The thinking is he’ll be able to cope just fine without me by then. I expect to attend the celebrations, although I won’t be drinking much and might have to slope off to bed early with the wonderful Mrs H; who I’m sure will still be in fine form.
