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Refined grains

white rice · white flour · maida
−24 min per daily serving, over a lifetime
measured · low evidence

What it does

Milling strips the bran and germ. You are not asked to eat less — only to eat the version that kept its outer layer.

+0.9 to +1.1 years
from 150 g/day down to 50 g · quality of evidence: low (5.0)

Where the number comes from

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.

How to eat it

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

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পরিশোধিত শস্য

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।

120 is the biological ceiling, not a promise. These are population estimates from a peer-reviewed model, not a personal forecast. Educational information, not medical advice.