Foods to prolong your life

Chocolate, wine and a long healthy lifestyle. Sounds fun rather than a hardship life. Nutritionists say we can keep away the heart and kidney disease consuming these seven foods as often as we can - dark chocolate, walnuts, garlic, fruits, vegetables, fish and one glass of red wine daily.

This diet came in response to the concern of scientists to find a drug to prolong our lives. In 2003, some British researchers published a paper in the British Medical Journal about the polypill - a hypothetical pill, which was composed of aspirin, folic acid, statins and blood pressure-lowering substances. All of this, in combination, would decrease the risk of heart disease. They argue that if each person with over 55 years that would take the pill, life expectancy would increase by at least 10 years.

The idea of giving people chemicals is controversial. After reading the research, Epidemiology, Oscar H. Franco thought: "Why we give drugs to healthy people when we get a similar longevity consuming healthy food?".

Franco has studied the existing medical literature and found that eating polifood - calibrated doses of foods that protect the heart, already proven scientific fact - you can reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease by 76% and add 6 years of life without adverse effects.

Ralph Felder, a renowned U.S. nutritionist doctor, tried to put in practice the theory of Franco. Examples of healthy food dosed correctly, part of a system focused on less fat:

Walnuts
Two teaspoons of crushed nuts sprinkled over breakfast cereals and will reduce bad cholesterol (LDL) by 14 percent.

Fruit and vegetables
Eat three quarters of a cup of vegetables and fruits and will decrease the risk of blood pressure, cancer and heart disease by 21%.

Fish
3 times a week - grill, boil or steam. Avoid large predators, fish like swordfish, tuna or shark. You will lower the risk of heart attack by 14 percent.

Black chocolate
2 squares with minimum 60% cocoa a day reduced by 11% risk of vascular disease.

Garlic
A single clove of garlic a day reduces your risk of heart disease by 38 percent.

Wine
A single glass of wine a day reduces your risk of heart disease by 32 percent.

And that's just the beginning. Felder wants to develop a full menu for 30 days with all of these foods, with healthy ingredients such as whole grains.