How Does What We Eat Affect How We Age?
By COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH DECEMBER 10, 2022
The results of the study highlight the importance of thinking about nutrition holistically.
According to recent research from the Butler Columbia Aging Center at
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the answer to a seemingly simple question – how does what we eat impact how we age – is unavoidably complex.
While the majority of analyses had focused on the effects of a single nutrient on a single outcome, a conventional, unidimensional approach to understanding the effects of diet on health and aging no longer gives us the full picture. A healthy diet needs to be thought of based on the balance of ensembles of nutrients, rather than by optimizing a series of nutrients one at a time. Up until recently, little was understood about how dietary variation that occurs naturally in humans impacts aging. The findings were recently published in the journal BMC Biology.
