Milling strips the bran and germ. You are not asked to eat less — only to eat the version that kept its outer layer.
Refined grains sits in the refined group of the Fadnes model, the only peer-reviewed model that converts eating into years of life. The lifetime gain for that group is spread across the days you actually eat it — a daily serving from age 20 to 80 — which gives −24 min per serving. The authors rate the evidence behind this group as low.
For most of South Asia this is the single biggest lever.
Source: Fadnes et al. · PLOS Medicine, 2022 (meta-analysis).
Minutes derived from Fadnes LT, Økland J-M, Haaland ØA, Johansson KA. Estimating impact of food choices on life expectancy: A modeling study. PLOS Medicine 19(2):e1003889, 2022. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003889
See how it compares →ছাঁটাই ভুষি ও অঙ্কুর কেড়ে নেয়। কম খেতে বলা হচ্ছে না — শুধু যেটার খোসা আছে, সেটা খেতে বলা হচ্ছে।
দক্ষিণ এশিয়ার বেশিরভাগ মানুষের জন্য এটাই সবচেয়ে বড় সুযোগ।
প্রতিদিন এক সার্ভিং = −24 মিনিট।