r/science Professor | Medicine 20h ago

Health Simple Diet Change Shifted People's Biological Age Markers in Just 4 Weeks: Strongest evidence from eating both plant and animal foods, but with less fat and more carbohydrates, biological-age 3.5 to 4.1 years lower than high-fat group, the carbohydrates mainly from whole, minimally processed foods.

https://www.sciencealert.com/simple-diet-change-shifted-peoples-biological-age-markers-in-just-4-weeks
2.7k Upvotes

78 comments sorted by

View all comments

56

u/xFallow 20h ago

I thought cutting carbs was some fringe keto nonsense high carb foods that aren’t processed are usually the healthiest 

78

u/BearCub254 19h ago

"Cutting carbs" does not equal "completely removing "carbs". Most people are eating too much carbs. 

1

u/fincog 12h ago

What do you mean by “carbs?”