When it comes to longevity countries, many people may think of Japan, but in fact, in addition to it, there is a country with a relatively long average life expectancy, but many friends may not understand that it is Ireland. ACCORDING TO WHO, the overall life expectancy in Ireland is 81.4 years, with the life expectancy of women being even higher at 83.4 years. Donnelly was an Irish family whose combined age was over a thousand years old, the oldest of whom lived to be 94 years old.
Why do they live so long? Some people may say that this is because of the family longevity gene, indeed, this is a factor, but in fact, it has something to do with their diet, potatoes are the favorite of the Irish, and they love to eat potatoes, is it related to eating potatoes? Let's take a look at how they eat three meals a day.
They basically have potatoes in their three meals a day, potatoes are variety of methods, the Irish like to use boiling, or make them into mashed potatoes, potatoes for them are equivalent to the staple food we eat every day such as rice steamed buns. But according to our eating habits, many people do not regard potatoes as a staple food, but as vegetables. In fact, potatoes can be used as a staple food, and it may be healthier to eat potatoes than finely processed rice and steamed buns, because rice noodles can provide the same, it also has, and it also has rice noodles that are not.
However, their average life expectancy of more than 80 years is not all due to potatoes, because their dependence on potatoes later brought them "disaster". Because they ate potatoes for a long time, the food chain was very single, and then a germ appeared, many potatoes were contaminated, so the Irish experienced a great famine, and then they also had a new understanding of potatoes.
The Irish have a longer lifespan, perhaps related to their three meals a day, what do they eat? How do you eat it?
Breakfast: We often say that breakfast should be good, for the Irish can be said to be really done, breakfast food has a lot of variety, in addition to potatoes, eggs, tomatoes, honey and so on. They also like to drink coffee, many people may think that it is not good to drink coffee regularly, but in fact, more and more studies have found that drinking coffee properly has many benefits, and even to a certain extent, it will reduce the risk of cancer (liver cancer).
Lunch: Their lunch, in addition to potatoes, but also vegetables, seafood and meat, in terms of eating meat, they have similar eating habits to the Japanese, love to eat fish, for the believers they will choose to eat fish. Fish is white meat, which contains unsaturated fatty acids that are beneficial to the human body, and eating appropriately often is beneficial to cardiovascular health, good blood vessels, and naturally conducive to prolonging life.
Dinner: relatively light, they like to drink soup, light soup, the evening dishes are generally stewed more. And dinner to eat lightly, is conducive to digestion, will not increase the burden on the stomach, dinner to eat right, for sleep is also good.
It can be seen that from their three meals a day, it can be seen that there are some places worth referencing, diet has a great impact on health, and it is not unreasonable to enter the disease from the mouth. However, in addition, their average life expectancy is relatively long, which is also related to the following habits:
They don't sit for long periods of time – a lot of people now do their jobs in a sit-down, sit-down computer, sit-in class, but in Ireland they work while standing, and some schools still do. In this way, it avoids sitting for a long time, and sitting for a long time is easy to slow down metabolism, make people fat, if the sitting posture is not right, it is easy to get lumbar spondylosis after a long time.
They are not overworked – they rarely work overtime on rest days, work hard when they work, take a serious break when they rest, and don't feel like work is all there is to it. Such a mentality is also better, so that the body can be combined with work and leisure, which also has a certain help for improving the work effect, and if the daily working time is long, more than 55 hours a week, the health risk is relatively large. Nowadays, many people's daily life is very fast, the time of day is very tight, and fullness is fulfilling, but sometimes it may be necessary to slow down a little more freely.
In summary, the average life expectancy in Ireland is relatively long, which may be related to the above habits, although they are potato control, eating potatoes also has benefits, but there are many factors that affect life expectancy, don't misunderstand, only see that they love to eat potatoes this habit. Healthy and reasonable eating habits, knowing how to combine work and leisure, and maintaining a good attitude are conducive to prolonging life.