[E324]Healthful Diet Switch Helps Even Late in Life
Healthful Diet Switch Helps Even Late in Life
At a Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health forum['fɔrəm][论坛,讨论会] on diet and health[饮食和健康], Walter Willett, chair of the school's nutrition department[营养学系], said that adoption of more healthful eating habits even late in life still has benefits[即使是在晚年，采取更加健康的饮食习惯，仍有好处].
Let’s say your diet has been not so great. Maybe too much red meat[红色肉类(牛肉,羊肉等)], especially processed meat[加工过肉类;肉制品]. Maybe too many sugary soft drinks[含糖饮料]. And maybe you’ve been eating like that for decades. So what’s the point of trying to make some healthful changes now, after the damage has presumably[prɪ'zuməbli][大概;推测起来;可假定] been done?
“It is impressive that changes even very late in life, such as even being older and having a heart attack[心脏病发作], a dietary change[饮食变化] can within a matter of a few months drop our risk greatly of[大大降低…风险] a recurrent heart attack or death[心脏病复发或死亡].”
Walter Willett. He chairs the Department of Nutrition[营养学系] at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He spoke at a January 15th forum on Cancer and Diet that wound up[wind up 结束;完成;停止(活动)] touching on[提及;谈及;关系到;涉及] diet and health in general.
“So it’s never too late to make important changes[做重要改变(改变饮食习惯)永远都不会太迟]. For diabetes[糖尿病] also, if we change our diet almost immediately our risk of diabetes goes down. But that’s not to say you just should just wait `til you’re old to start living a healthy life. We’re seeing in some studies now that what women ate as adolescents[,ædə'lɛsnt][青少年], especially if they ate a lot more red meat[红色肉类(牛肉,羊肉等)], that affected breast cancer[乳腺癌] risk later in their life. So it’s definitely important if you want the healthiest overall life is to start a healthy lifestyle early. But if you’ve sort of ignored things it’s never too late to still get some benefit.”
The entire hour-long forum['fɔrəm][论坛,讨论会] featuring Willett and other researchers discussing diet and health is archived['a:rkaivd][存档的；已归档的] on line. Just google “Harvard public health forum”.
—Steve Mirsky
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