Your body will stop ageing if you have a Stone Age diet

UK: Reach the age of 80 and your body won’t get any older, it was claimed last night. Michael Rose, a professor of evolutionary biology, says that if you are lucky enough to live that long, you stop ageing. To actually get to that moment, he suggests adopting a Stone Age’ diet from the age of around 30. Grains and dairy products should be avoided and seafood, fruits, nuts and vegetables embraced.

Holding back the ageing process: Research suggests that our bodies stop ageing in our 90s and, while our health doesn’t improve, it certainly doesn’t get any worse.

Holding back the ageing process: Research suggests that our bodies stop ageing in late life and, while our health doesn’t improve, it certainly doesn’t get any worse. Writing in this week’s New Scientist, he says that switching to the sort of diet favoured by our hunter-gatherer ancestors could speed up the advent of the healthy part of old age.

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