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New Study “What to Eat to Look Younger”

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,277 Member
    springlering62 wrote: »
    You’ll be thrilled to know that the same newspaper followed up today with a new article touting oxygenation as the route backwards to youth.

    This one studied both lifelong athletes and couch potatoes and had them do a sort of HIIT routine every five days, making the athletes slow down their usual routines. All showed some sort of improvement in something or other. And when they tested the couch potatoes, who had returned to potato habits, a year later, they still had residual improved oxygen levels.

    I’m starting to believe any study can be manipulated to return pretty much any result you want. My husband was a market research analyst, and he told me years ago you could easily manipulate how people perceived results simply by the type size and portion of the graph or chart you presented.

    He ruined the weight loss smoothing apps for me before I ever even had a chance to need one. *sigh*

    This is a tangent, but if anyone is interested in this sort of thing, there's a delightful little book by Darrell Huff, "How to Lie With Statistics", first published in 1954, but some things are timeless. It's aimed at us non-statistician people, to help us understand (without a lot of technical mumbo-jumbo) how to recognize when someone's deploying statistics to mislead, and how that works.

    It's still in print. Amazon has it, and I'll link that below for more information, but I'm betting your library system has it. Fun *and* informative!

    https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728

  • 33gail33
    33gail33 Posts: 1,155 Member
    edited June 2021
    ythannah wrote: »
    33gail33 wrote: »
    ythannah wrote: »
    33gail33 wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »

    I can only get the first paragraph - is there anything else of note other than berries, leafy greens and cruciferous veggies?

    Three servings of liver per week …. nope. 😬

    Ewwww no.

    However, mention of liver has made me realize that I am ever so grateful my dad (whose grocery shopping I do) has never asked me to pick some up for him. I know he eats it, he eats all organ meats.

    Maybe it's a generational thing - my mom likes it too.

    You couldn't pay me to eat one piece of liver - ever - never mind three times a week. I mean I don't eat meat anyway but even when I did - never liver.

    I'd rather be old and shriveled. :)

    I think of it more as a Brit thing, the land of steak and kidney pie and haggis and all that. I grew up eating things like kidney, tongue, heart, although I drew the line at tripe. This may have contributed to the fact that I gave up eating meat quite young!

    Probably! I was born here but my parents came from Scotland in the late 50's. For us it was mostly blood pudding, tatties and mince, and stovies. And beans on toast. :smiley:
    (My dad died when I was a baby so steak pie and liver and such might have been out of our price range.)
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,277 Member
    middlehaitch wrote: »
    I’m sorry, I can only think of all those checkout magazines covers that I used to see in the 90’s.

    I’m sure every one sported a different ‘superfood’. I did think of making a list of the foods as I saw them, then try to eat it all in one day. I was too disinterested to follow through. A lot of things listed in the article were promoted in those mags at one point or another. I’m still not going to try and eat it all, nevermind give up alcohol.

    Yup I look my age.

    I’ve had a life with lots of fun and a fair share of hardship, it shows. (even with good overall nutrition throughout my adulthood)


    Cheers, h.

    Hmm, I dunno. I've seen your recomp photos. You may look your age, but then a lot of people your age must look older than their age, methinks.

    (Even the linked study suggests a little red wine is good for a person now and then, and we wouldn't want to discriminate against other beverages and make them feel bad, would we? 😉)
  • ythannah
    ythannah Posts: 4,378 Member
    33gail33 wrote: »
    ythannah wrote: »
    33gail33 wrote: »
    ythannah wrote: »
    33gail33 wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »

    I can only get the first paragraph - is there anything else of note other than berries, leafy greens and cruciferous veggies?

    Three servings of liver per week …. nope. 😬

    Ewwww no.

    However, mention of liver has made me realize that I am ever so grateful my dad (whose grocery shopping I do) has never asked me to pick some up for him. I know he eats it, he eats all organ meats.

    Maybe it's a generational thing - my mom likes it too.

    You couldn't pay me to eat one piece of liver - ever - never mind three times a week. I mean I don't eat meat anyway but even when I did - never liver.

    I'd rather be old and shriveled. :)

    I think of it more as a Brit thing, the land of steak and kidney pie and haggis and all that. I grew up eating things like kidney, tongue, heart, although I drew the line at tripe. This may have contributed to the fact that I gave up eating meat quite young!

    Probably! I was born here but my parents came from Scotland in the late 50's. For us it was mostly blood pudding, tatties and mince, and stovies. And beans on toast. :smiley:
    (My dad died when I was a baby so steak pie and liver and such might have been out of our price range.)

    We came from Scotland in 68 :D

    There was a little old deli here that used to bring in Scottish foods and I'd pick up black pudding and the like for him (at a horrific markup). He texted me the other day that he was making mince and tatties... and skirlie. My mother made the best steak and kidney pie on the face of the earth. I have her recipe but I've never attempted to duplicate it. However, I could turn out stovies from memory, even now.

    Anyway, there was a reason they used male subjects for this study, I don't think there's any magic food that will turn back the clock for women once our hormones nosedive aka menopause.

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