If you’ve been reading my Health and Nutrition Bites for a while, you know they’re all about numbers. Quintiles, quartiles, percents, pounds and kilograms… it can all be a little overwhelming when you’re trying to figure out what is the best way to live healthier and longer. While the purpose of Dr. Gourmet’s Health and Nutrition Bites is to explain current research in easy to understand terms and tell you just what that science means for you in the real world, today I want to share with you some research that is about as simple as it gets.
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control worked with scientists at the German Institute of Human Nutrition on a study that included over 23,000 men and women between the ages of 35 and 65. At the start of the study, each person received a score of 1 or 0 (yes or no) on four positive health factors. Sometimes It’s Just That Simple
