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The hispanic paradox: Why do latinos live longer?


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Despite a lower economic status, lower education, less access to healthcare, and higher smoking rates, hispanics in the US live longer.  Well, until they acclimate to the Standard American Diet, then death starts to catch up.

 

What is it?  Likely food, such as beans, corn, rice, and peppers.  The rate of bean consumption is vastly higher than whites, as well as other vegetables.  Beans have been strongly associate with protection from heart disease and diabetes.

 

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-hispanic-paradox-why-do-latinos-live-longer/

 

 

Do legumes—beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils—work only to prevent disease, or can they help treat and reverse it as well?

 

https://nutritionfacts.org/2022/05/19/randomized-controlled-trials-of-beans/?utm_source=NutritionFacts.org&utm_campaign=dcde95f609-RSS_BLOG_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_40f9e497d1-dcde95f609-28710906&mc_cid=dcde95f609&mc_eid=6bf37ade4d

 

Randomized controlled interventional trials have found that dietary bean intake does significantly reduce bad LDL cholesterol levels. In fact, we’ve known that for more than half a century, dating back to 1962. You can see what happens at 2:11 in my video when you measure cholesterol levels at baseline, add beans to the diet, and then remove beans from the diet. The cholesterol content in blood serum goes down and back up.

Beans also “have a low glycemic index and saturated fat content, and are high in fiber, potassium, and plant protein, each of which independently confers BP- [blood pressure-] lowering effects. Whether there is sufficient evidence to emphasize dietary pulses [beans] alone to lower BP, however, is unclear.” Therefore, what we need is a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled feeding trials, and we got just that. What did the researchers find? Beans do indeed lower blood pressure no matter where you start out.

 

 

 

And beans are easy to add into a daily diet.  There are so many options.

 

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Btw, blood pressure. I've reduced coffee to just one cappuccino first thing in the morning. Green tea on the afternoon. That's my entire caffeine intake for the day. Quality of sleep increased bigly. Like a brick. Reduced alkohol intake to occasional glass of red wine- combined less than a battle per week. Reduced salt. Got serious about pretty strenuous cardio about 4 times per week. At the begining my heart beat was approaching about 160 bpm by the end of exercise. After couple of months of it - 135 to 140. 

 

My blood pressure dropped about 15 points, and now is at 65/115. My resting heart rate is around 60 bpm.

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11 hours ago, superhawk996 said:

Another factor may be that they're more likely to be blue collar workers and getting more daily exercise.


Fair enough.  Diet gets the blame, but look at what Americans are back in the 40s and 50s.  Nowhere near the health issues we now have…attributed to how few had cars and most had to walk or bike in their daily activities.

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7 hours ago, Zero Knievel said:

but look at what Americans are back in the 40s and 50s.

 

A more natural diet, less sugar, less salt.  Right around 1940 is when more processed stuff was becoming mainstream, so we saw the results a few decades later.  But it took a while for the processed food industry to fuck our diet completely, more like the 70s.

 

7 hours ago, Zero Knievel said:

Nowhere near the health issues we now have

 

False.  Half the shit they got didn't have a name, or was put down as the wrong thing.  More people died before they could "get" a disease.  They say every single man alive will get prostate diseases if he lives long enough; so now we have "more" of it because we're surviving other things.  Cancer rates were astronomically higher by 1990.  Sugar consumption went up over double by 2000.

 

The 50s also launched ultra-salty foods, which we'd get to see the results of decades later.

 

 

 

Salt-free cookbooks were already appearing by the 1950s, and two decades later manufacturers dropped salt from baby food. By 1981 the FDA had launched sodium-education initiatives aiming to cut U.S. salt intake. Three years later, sodium was added to the list of ingredients required to be mentioned on nutrition labels.

Despite such efforts to increase awareness, salt consumption in the U.S. has jumped 50% over the past four decades. One reason: salt often lurks where you don't expect it. A dollop of cottage cheese, for instance, can pack twice as much of the mineral as a palmful of salted peanuts. Plus, as much as 75% of Americans' sodium intake comes from processed foods like canned soup and baking mixes--which means you could easily blow past your daily allotment without ever picking up the saltshaker.

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