A live-forever diet?
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Can a diet help us live longer?
Today on the show, we ask, can a diet help us live much, much longer? We do know that someone will always be trying. There's venture capitalist Brian Johnson and his vegetables for breakfast.
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There's David Murdoch, the 101-year-old chairman of Dole Foods and his somewhat bizarre fruit-forward diet.
I eat the skins of bananas, the skins of oranges, the skins of pineapple.
There's the Blue Zones diet, which is taken from places in the world where people are said to routinely live to 100.
The five pillars of every longevity diet in the world are whole grains, greens, tubers like sweet potatoes, nuts, and beans.
And then there's the possibility that this is a lot of nonsense. Coming up on Today Explained.
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This is Today Explained. Anahad O'Connor is a nutrition reporter for The Washington Post's Wellbeing Desk. He's been writing about food and health for more than two decades. Anahad, for maybe 10 or 15 years now, we've heard about these tech guys in Silicon Valley trying to hack their health and live forever. When did people start thinking diet equals health and health equals longevity?
So I think this probably goes back to the dawn of our species. Throughout the centuries, there have always been diet and health gurus and doctors who promoted different foods. And so human beings have always known instinctively that there's some connection between what we eat and how we feel and how healthy we are. That goes back at least thousands of years, if not longer.
At least thousands of years. So it is not 10 to 15 years. And in the Bay Area, I was wrong about that. Tell me about some of the kind of luminaries or the people that we've chosen to follow over the years when they tell us what we should eat.
We know in the United States that certainly throughout the past century, there have been diet gurus who promoted things like the low carb diet and the paleo diet and the South Beach diet, the low fat diet. These often start with people, sometimes doctors, sometimes just everyday people who decide that they know the foods or the diet that are going to help us live a longer, healthier life. And the interesting thing is that I started researching this years ago, and I noticed that a lot of these diet gurus actually tend to die prematurely. So you look, for example, there was a famous guy named Jerome Rodale, and you might recognize that last name. He helped to pioneer the organic food movement in the United States in the 50s, 60s and 70s and promoted the idea that organic foods are going to make you healthier, help you live longer. He famously went on the Dick Cavett show in the early 70s and was bragging about how healthy he was because of his diet and told Dick Cavett he was going to live to be 100 and was
you know, saying that he had just fallen down a flight of stairs and he laughed all the way down as he was falling down the steps. You know, he was 72 at the time and he said, I'm going to live to be 100 unless I'm quote unquote run down by some sugar crazed taxi driver. And Cabot was really enamored of this. And then they go to break and then they heard
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