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healthiest hearts in the world

Mr_Pot said:
This type of study may be interesting but it is very difficult to draw any conclusions from it. Their environment, lifestyle and diet are so different it could be anything that is benefiting their health, there is no way to carry out any control experiments. I see they brew vats of manioc beer, equally that could be the secret of their healthy arteries rather than the proportion of carbs.
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That's what I am thinking. It's is very interesting, but their way of life is far removed from that of anyone on this forum. Nothing to compare to and so many variables in why they are so heart healthy.
 
why do females in Boliva aged 30-69 have such an increased rate of diabetes? The comparitivly astronomical death rate may be due to health care but the trend line is not good. At least cardiovascular deaths are only 24% compared to our 31. Think that may be because other stuff gets them first though. http://www.who.int/diabetes/country-profiles/en/ word of warning if you want to cotinue believing the media when it says the mediterranean diet is healthy do NOT compare the UK stats with Italy or Greece
 
NoCrbs4Me said:
Unfortunately, the average life span of Tsimane is 53.
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If you were reading the same research paper, that's only improved from 45 since 1990.

Seems over half of all deaths were due to infectious disease, especially respiratory and gastrointestinal infections. Accidents and violence accounted for a quarter of all deaths.

They can keep their healthy hearts, gives them too much energy for the violence maybe.
 
If their diets are very low in salt like a lot of South American native populations, that can apparently increase the risk of skin infections as a lot of sodium in stored in the skin and helps to fight localised infection.
 
Is the Tsimane diet relevant to T1s? If your aim is to have a heart good enough to be a competitive athlete when you are past retirement age, then note that a 72% carb diet has never been reported to work well. There are tens of thousands of T1s online, yet after decades of searching, I find no one getting good long term results from this carb %. Happy to be proved wrong. Just show me one person's online results.
 
No responses to the question in my previous post. Can I now ask a related question?
How many T1s of retirement age are getting good results in competitive athletics using a VLC or Bernstein type approach (not including ultra events)
 
It seems the worms in their guts may be doing something to their low GI carbs? Perhaps some form of symbiosis exists and that leads to healthy hearts, their exercise pattern is also is a major factor.
 
nickm said:
Is the Tsimane diet relevant to T1s? If your aim is to have a heart good enough to be a competitive athlete when you are past retirement age, then note that a 72% carb diet has never been reported to work well. There are tens of thousands of T1s online, yet after decades of searching, I find no one getting good long term results from this carb %. Happy to be proved wrong. Just show me one person's online results.
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I am 60 next year and type 1 and not an actually athlete, but I have always been active, especially with walking,, I like a little climbing, up hills and trees too. No results to show ( only photo's) but the same weight for decades, I do have a back problem, on the upper right side and it's being investigated ( I have osteoporosis) so that has limited my movements.
 
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