A new study associates late breakfast with lower life expectancy

One of the Great statements that has always been done in the field of nutrition is that breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day. Given that premise, we are at a time where The ‘what’ we eat has monopolized our attention counting calories, Analyzing macronutrients and discussing superfoods. However, a new research wave is focusing on an equally crucial question: the “when” we eat. Longevity. One of the great objectives that people have is to last how long the better. But, They tell Putin and Xi Jinping with organ transplantation. But although this is not a viable option, a study that followed almost 3,000 older adults in the United Kingdom for more than three decades is clear that breakfast can be key to calculating our risk of mortality. The key point is the time to have breakfast, which would be a great health marker that points to the much (or little) that can be lived. An internal clock. The field of study that focuses on this aspect of our life is Chrononutritiona discipline that studies our internal clock, what we know as circadian rhythmswhich only dictate when we sleep or wake up, but also regulate our hormones, our metabolism and how we process food. In this way, eating in tune with this internal clock seems to be beneficial, according to researchers, while doing it could disagree our internal machinery. The new studyled by researchers from institutions such as the University of Manchester and Harvard, entered fully into this concept, analyzing how food schedules change as we age and what that means for our health. The late breakfast problem. The researchers analyzed the data of 2,945 adults older than 1983 until 2017. The results in this case were quite clear: as the participants aged, they tended to delay the time of breakfast and dinner, and to shorten their daily “food window”. But what caught the care really was the relationship with the health problems that arise with longevity. Greater mortality. Delaying breakfast associated with a higher risk of mortality in the short term. Specifically, every hour of Breakfast delay It was linked to an 8% increase in the chances of dying, even after adjusting factors such as socioeconomic level or lifestyle. New diseases. In addition to increasing the probability of dying, having breakfast in a late way can be related to a greater burden of physical and psychological diseases, such as fatigue, depression, anxiety and multimorbility, that is, the suffering of several diseases simultaneously. Lower survival. A criterion that can agglutinate the two previous values ​​is the survival of a person. In this case, the analysis identified two groups of patients: on the one hand, those who ate very early and on the other, those who ate later. The researchers could see in these cases that the 10 -year survival rate was remarkably lower in the group that ate later (86.7%), compared to the group that made it earlier (89.5%). The effect of aging. Far from being a simple choice of lifestyle, the study suggests that this change in schedules can be a deeper reflection of healthy health processes. Researchers suggest that genetics play a fundamental role in this case. On the one hand, there is a person who have a genetic predisposition to be ‘nocturnal’ which is what is known as a evening chronotype They have to delay the hours of all their meals. On the other, and perhaps more importantly, the study states that the beginning of a disease can be what leads us to change our schedules, and not vice versa. A conditions such as depression, chronic fatigue or oral health problems can alter appetite and daily routines, causing the first meal of the day to postpone. This phenomenon could be related to what is known as “anorexia of aging”, a geriatric syndrome characterized by the loss of appetite and a lower food intake. A health biomarker. The authors conclude that, rather than being a direct cause of mortality, breakfast time could function as a “simple health marker in older adults.” It is an easy indicator to observe for anyone and that can alert on underlying changes in the physical and mental well -being of a person. This research reinforces the idea that maintaining regular food schedules with our day and night cycle is important to have healthy aging. As they explain from the Harvard School of Public Health, aligning meals with the circadian clock can help regulate metabolism and reduce chronic diseases. Images | Realmac Software In Xataka | We knew that breakfast nuts and other nuts was positive for our brain. What we didn’t know was to what extent

Denmark’s life expectancy has grown. His politicians have taken the opportunity to raise the retirement age up to 70 years

Demographic aging is putting serious to the labor market and the pension systems of countries around the world. Most European countries have already taken measures in this regard delaying retirement age legal for your workers. However, Denmark has been the most expeditious: from 2040, Danish workers will have to wait until he turned 70 to retire. With this reform, Denmark is like the country with the Higher retirement age from Europe. Progressive increase up to 70 years. According to what was published by The media Danes, the Danish Parliament has approved with 81 votes in favor and 21 votes against the new law that will raise the retirement age from the current 67 years to 70 years in 2040. According to explained The British BBCthe process will be carried out progressively, progressively looking at 68 by 2030, the 69 by 2035 and, finally, reaching up to 70 years in 2040. More pensions for a longer time. In 2006, the Danish parliamentary arc parties signed the well -being agreement in which the country’s life expectancy was indexed. That measure served as the basis for Danish retirement age It will rise From the 65 years they had in 2004, at the 67th that was reached in 2019. However, last year the Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that the variable escalation of the retirement age should be renegotiated to shorten the increases in increases. Reducing these deadlines would serve to adapt to the current life expectancy of the country. According to data of the Better Life Index From the OECD, Denmark has an 82 -year half -life expectancy. Are they too many years? Some Danish workers consider the new retirement age excessive. In statements To the public station Denmark Radio, Tommas Jensen, roof assembler, assured that he had undergone knee surgery, shoulder and back. “I just turned 47 and I see that I have many years left in the labor market. Maybe I have to look for a new profession.” Jesper Ettrup Rasmussen, president of one of the main union confederations in the country, described the proposal as “totally unfair.” “Denmark has a healthy economy, and yet imposes the highest retirement age of the entire European Union. A later retirement means losing the right to a decent life in old age.” In the same line He manifested Trade union leader Henning Overgaard, who considered that working until 70 was unfeasible for jobs with greater physical demand. “Many politicians have gone to university. You can read reports and see statistics, but that does not replace having risen at four in the morning with frost in the beard and the back hunched over by yesterday’s turn,” said the unionist. Europe retires between 65 and 67 years. Given the progressive aging of the European population, most European countries have chosen to delay the retirement age of their workers to maintain the stability of their pension systems. Nevertheless, According to data From the Finnish pension center, most European countries have maintained their retirement fork between 65 and 67 years. The measure that the Danish Parliament has taken is the most ambitious in terms of postponement of the retirement age of its workers. In Spain, the legal retirement age It remains in the 65 years until 2027 provided that a minimum of 38 years and six months have been quoted. If this requirement is not met, the minimum age to retire will increase progressively until reaching 67 years in 2027. In 2025, the legal age to retire if 38 years and three months or more have been quoted and more is 66 years and eight months. In Xataka | There is a man who has been working for the same company for 86 years. And you have no plans to retire In Xataka | From the “great resignation” to “great prejubilation”: the labor market loses the experience of those over 55 years Image | Unspash (Diana Parkhouse, Hannah Thiel)

We have discovered that cutting the consumption of an amino acid is related to more life expectancy. In mice, yes

Virtually anything, in excess, can end up being harmful. Water is no exception and amino acids, the “bricks of life” are not. This was demonstrated by a study conducted from one of those compounds. In moderation. In study, conducted in mice, noticed that cutting the intake of isoleucine in the diet of animals helped increase the life expectancy of rodents by 33%. Isoleucine. Isoleucine is one of the essential amino acids. Amino acids are essential molecules for life as they represent The links from which proteins are created. We know thousands of proteins, all of them composed from about twenty amino acids. Our body can synthesize more than half of the amino acids that it requires to create proteins, but nine of these amino acids, the so -called essential, we must obtain them from our food. This is the case of isoleucine, an amino acid that we can find in a diversity of foods such as eggs, soybeans, meat and fish. A previous track. The study started from a Previous indication. A study conducted ten years ago in the state of Wisconsin observed that the diets of people with obesity were richer in this amino acid than the average population. In mice. For Study this correlationthe team went to the laboratory and studied its effect on mice. Laboratory animals divided into three groups: one control, to which no food restrictions were applied, another whose diet was altered to reduce the presence of amino acids, and another whose diet was normal in the presence of amino acids except in Isoleucine. The amount of isoleucine that this group received was β…” less than the standard. The mice were six months when they started these diets, which would be equivalent to an age of 30 years in humans. Analziating results. The team observed that the two groups of mice with amino acid restiring lost body fat at the beginning but those who had all the restricted amino acids lost it again soon. More important, the team observed that mice in this diet with less isoleucine increased their life expectancy: 7% in females and 33% in males. Another relevant detail that they observed is that the mice in this diet would ingest more calories. Possibly, they point out, to compensate for the lack of nutritional contribution of this component. Despite this, they also burned more of these calories, which led them to maintain a lower body mass than the rest of the study mice. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Cell metabolism. And what about humans? The team responsible for the study was likely that the restriction of this amino acid can have a similar effect on humans. For now that possibility is little more than speculative but the fact that the greatest presence of this amino acid in the diets of people with obesity is already observed implies another indication of the existence of some relationship. Beyond the biological differences between one species, the human diet is much less controllable than that of laboratory mice. The field of nutrition is extremely complex, with an infinity of nutrients, some of which interact with each other. He effect of other factors As our physical activity or tobacco consumption also affect our health and our life expectancy, making it difficult to elucidate the net impact of a nutrient on the human body. In Xataka | We believed that creatine was one of the most useful supplements to gain muscle mass. We are no longer so sure Image | Moerschy

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