Rhiannon Lambert

Wine is good.

Red wine is bad.

And olive oil, as we know, is fantastic, but shotting it, then not shotting it.

This actually suggested that drizzling olive oil on your meals

And adding berries to breakfast may help support healthier aging.

Now, berries didn't make it into the headline.

It's not as snappy or grabby as coffee or olive oil.

I know.

Isn't it amusing?

Because, yeah, I think berries are just the most fantastic fruit you can have.

But this research was presented actually this week at the European Congress on Obesity.

And the study found that those who consume these polyphenols and antioxidant-rich compounds regularly

which you find in the olive oil, of course, you find in the berries, you find in coffee, you find in the cocoa bean from chocolate, you know, all the delicious foods that we love to eat that come in the whole food format.

If you have essentially, I'm going to call it a Mediterranean diet, Ella, with maybe a bit more coffee, experience fewer age-related changes to their DNA over time.

But it was quite a stark percentage of those that consume the highest amounts of these polyphenols.

Also, you can refer to these as antioxidants, essentially.

It's just all the wonderful components that you find in a whole food diet.

They had a 52% lower, so over half risk of accelerated telomere shortening, so of that fraying of that shoelace, compared with those that consumed the least.

And the effect appeared strongest in adults that were under the age of 64.

That doesn't mean at any age you can't start consuming a healthy diet because we know from previous research and studies that all has an impact.