What to eat to be one of the healthy elite at 70

Eating well in midlife could affect how healthy you are in your seventies. This is according to a study published this week in which researchers outlined dietary habits that will help adults to reach older age without chronic disease. Forget fancy supplements, superfoods and fasting, say the team from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, University of Copenhagen and University of Montreal, the way to stay healthy and join an “elite” band of agers is simple: eat more of the good stuff and less of the bad.

More than 105,000 people aged 39 to 69 took part in the study in which their self-reported diet patterns were analysed every four years between 1986 and 2010 and again in 2016. Participants were asked specifically