Healthy Eating Patterns and Risk of Total and Cause-Specific Mortality

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JAMA Intern Med. Published online January 9, 2023.

In this cohort study of 75 230 women from the Nurses’ Health Study (1984-2020) and 44 085 men from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (1986-2020), greater adherence to several healthy eating patterns was associated with a lower risk of death. These associations were consistent in different racial and ethnic groups, including Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black, and non-Hispanic White individuals.

I can confidently state that a majority of the chronic illnesses among adults in the English Speaking rich world (USA Canada UK Australia NZ ) can be avoided or ameliorated if they only ate FOOD rather than highly processed materials disguised as food .

The effect of social situations on Health can never be forgotten, the reasons there are health disparities are all of social and societal origins rather than Racial or Cultural origin.

In the USA it is generally believed that the people of African Origin has a higher rate of mortality from Hypertension and Cardiovascular disease. Their cousins in the island of Cuba does not have the same burden, why? The situation for black people within the cuban society has improved tremendously since the Cuban Revolution of 1959.

Poverty may explain why Mexican Americans or Dominicans appear regularly on the "Hispanic" morbidity statistics rather than racial since the term "Hispanic" has no scientific basis and an invented term and it cannot be used as a racial nomenclature.

What was interesting in this study was that the diet or nutrition followed by those whose lives were prolonged were not any one trade mark but a variety of healthy eating broadly categorized