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# Eating whole grain products helps you live longer
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/whole_grain_products_helps_you_live_longer_0614160131/
- Published: 2016-06-14T14:31:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:28:08.000Z
- Description: Harvard researchers pooled 12 studies and NHANES data covering 800,000 people and report in Circulation that men and women eating three or more servings of whole grains a day were 20% less likely to die prematurely, particularly from cardiovascular disease, than those eating fewer.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Food, Nutrition, #vivvo-import

Tuesday June 14, 2016 (foodconsumer.org) -- Eating whole grain products may help you liver longer, according to a new study led by Dr. Qi Sun at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, MA and colleagues.

The study published in Circulation shows that men and women eating three or more servings of whole grains each day were 20% less likely to die prematurely, particularly from cardiovascular disease, than those eating fewer servings of whole grain products.

Whole grains such as whole wheat flour, oatmeal. brown rice and cornmeal contain every part of the grain kernel including the bran, germ and endosperm, whcih are rich in beneficial elements like the bran, germ, fiber, iron and B vitamins. In contrast, refined grains like white breads, white rice and white wheat flour provide little of those benefits.

The study was based on data from 800,000 men and women included in 12 published studies and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

If whole grain foods are not readily available, use other grain products like white rice and white wheat flour, which can be good alternatives if enough vegetables are served. Japan recommends that children should use 5 to 7 servings of grain products (not necessary whole grains), but also 5 to 7 servings of vegetables. But the country also recommends only 3 to 5 servings of fish/meats. (David Liu)