Too healthily...that is something which is hard to define. However consider the raw vegan diet. Raw vegan advocates believe that they are on the most healthy diet, as do paleo, adkin's, vegetarian, vegan and many others. But the raw food diet is lacking in certain nutrients, D and B12, zinc and iron among others. It would impossible to raise a child on such a diet, they would suffer a host of deficiency related problems. Adults only survive on this diet for prolonged periods because of their stores of these nutrients. Another thing to note is that certain vitamins become more bio available after certain periods of cooking. So these people believe that they are on a healthy diet but it could be considered too healthy or just unhealthy.
However, to answer your question. You mentioned your aunts were like "walking skeletons" which does have benefits, a lot of coronary disease is related to excess body fat. The reason being visceral fat, fat around the organs, which hinders the function or your organs until the point of failure. Without this visceral fat your aunties diet should have had little effect on their longevity. Most of the negative effects of cholesterol can be eliminated by exercise or activity.
Another factor is mobility. Studies have found that people who do yoga, which increases flexibility and therefore mobility, have longer telomeres (the longer the better), which are an indicator in longevity. If your aunts didn't stop moving then they may have that to thank for their longevity in part.
Reading between the lines. If you are worried that you are eating to healthily, don't be. As long as your diet is varied, you remain active, you don't have excess visceral fat and you have received the good genes form your aunts then I'll see you next century.
What kills you quicker is your lifestyle and the circumstances of the times you live in. If you were born in Germany in the 1930's, you would probably be dead before 1945 regardless of how much healthy foods you ate.
Your great aunts can eat what they do because in they were born at a time when people were more active and didn't spend half their waking hours sitting in front of a computer. What they ate while not necessarily healthy by today's standards, the foods they do eat were closer to the way humans being have eaten for hundreds of thousands of years.
The point of eating healthy is to remain vital into your old age. It does not mean you are guaranteed to live long, but live better. Ask yourself, would you rather died a long lingering death from cancer or a short accidental death being hit by a bus? Would you want to have your arms and legs amputated at 50 years old because of diabetes cause by obesity and bad eating habits, or eat healthy and live well?
Life is risky and there are many things out in the world that can kill you - some of which will kill you slowly and painfully. The point of living healthily is to reduce the risk and hedge the odds in you favor.
If your three aunts all lived so long there's a suggestion to me that it's genetic, which if we are talking about simple, natural cell failure, is entirely genetic or epigenetic. There's evidence for a "live long" gene that gets turned on during starvation (don't read too much into it, readers who are now thinking of starving yourselves to live longer). If they're in their 100s, wartime and famine were possible sources of this if this is the case for them.
But to get to the original question, depends. We don't use the passive voice in modern English so we tend to have a very unidirectional idea of causation. Eating well causes a long life? Not really. However eating poorly can cause a short one. Eating poorly can be soda and candy or limiting yourself to salad and bread. I see alot of people talk about eating healthy by eating nothing but fruit. The idea of fruitarian exists. That is much more unhealthy than the TV dinner guy. TV dinners will kill you with sugar and salt, but at least you get all three (four) macro nutrients. Eating "healthy" is not healthy when your idea of it is to be malnourished. And that will kill you.
I don't see the relationship between eating healthy and dying quicker. Who knows what would have happened to your aunts if they didn't have a healthy lifestyle - maybe, they would decease when they were 70. Of course, there is no way to check it - there aren't two identical people that would lead different lifestyles for the experiment's purposes. But I still believe that eating healthy food leads to a longer life.
Apart from Genetics, it is also live styles. My paternal Grandmother walked about a mile a day to a cheap market to get cheaper food, ate frugally and worked hard on a day to day bases. No fridge, freezer, washing machine etc. and had 2 active children, so plenty of washing to do by hand and on her knees scrubbing floors etc. as th men in that era provided the income and the wife worked hard. She lived well into her 70's. but had a massive heart attack on Boxing Day and actually fell dead in front of me at the dinner table and fell into her dinner. I was 12 years old at the time and, of course, was terribly shocked. Mortified, as she was my favourite gran. Then my paternal Grandfather died soon after from throat cancer because he smoked a pipe. Both her children then smoked as adults(my father and aunt) My aunt died in her middle 60's from COPD and my father had 5 strokes, the 6th one killing him at 55 years old. My mother, a smoker also died at 55, five years later, but she also had other problems with prescription drug addiction. Although, she worked hard without many luxuries. There is a pattern emerging as you can see, Also take into account WW11 and rationing not fully over until mid 1950's, so not a lot of sugar, meat etc. All keeping the population thin and active. Nowadays, kids and parents have all the latest equipment, and sit in front of computers, consoles etc.or TV's for
long periods, have fattening foods (unless they have strict parentsts) so obesity is setting in for at least 50 per cent of the population, leading to diabetes type 1 and 2 and asthma increasing in children who don't go out to play and get dirty and build up a resistance to germs. In my part of the world a lot of children do not particularly eat healthily and can be seen chomping on fast food and crisps and chips quite regularly on their way to and from school. Also food is now full of additives and E numbers, so it gets worse..!!
Eating healthy will not kill you quicker for sure. And in case of your aunt i would say when they were young the food at that time was very organic which makes them so stronger. Today we eat vegetables or fruits which are hybrid not that organic due to which today's generation is so weak and has less immunity.
What we eat is really important we say we do diet avoid fast food but what you eat is that really healthy you should check it.
Your aunts ate healthily... There is nothing inherently unhealthy about meat, eggs, cane sugar, etc... I suspect your aunts didn't eat fast food, junk food, etc. They made everything from scratch and probably grew their own vegetables.
Food isn't the problem.. Highly processed foods in excessive quantity is the problem.
My mom ate anything she wanted, smoked several packs of cigarettes a day and was a couch potato. She's 85 and still going strong. I think it has to do with genetics.
The fact that you said "great" aunts is key if we are talking about what they are eating. Back then there wasn't as much artificial crap, antibiotics, or growth hormones in what we eat.
it doesn't have a single thing to do with genetics. You will not die by suddenly eating healthier. In fact, it will make you live longer <
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