{"id":125185,"date":"2025-11-10T05:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/125185\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T05:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:33:11","slug":"89-year-old-nutrition-expert-from-new-york-shares-diet-secrets-for-long-life-i-like-vegetables-eggs-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/125185\/","title":{"rendered":"89-year-old nutrition expert from New York shares diet secrets for long life: ‘I like vegetables, eggs, cheese…’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Marion Nestle, who resides in New York City and Ithaca, is a renowned figure in the field of nutrition. She’s been dishing out straight-shooting advice<\/a> for decades, and her criticism of the food industry has made her a household name. Marion’s message? Whole foods are generally healthier than processed foods, and be cautious of clever marketing tactics. Also read | Fauja Singh dies at 114: When ‘world\u2019s oldest marathon runner’ revealed why he ate only ‘simple Punjabi vegetarian food\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Marion Marion Nestle’s diet is simple, yet powerful: eat whole, unprocessed foods and enjoy them in moderation. (Unsplash) Marion’s secret to healthy eating?<\/p>\n

In a November 5 interview<\/a> with The Washington Post, Marion shared a glimpse of her diet at 89 \u2013 from what eats in a typical day, and which foods she loves and avoids.<\/p>\n

She said, \u201cI follow Michael Pollan\u2019s (US journalist and professor) famous mantra: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants. And I define food as being unprocessed or as minimally processed as possible. Not ultra-processed. I really think that takes care of it. That doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m perfect. I\u2019m an omnivore. I eat everything. I just don\u2019t eat very much in part because metabolism drops with age, and I don\u2019t have much metabolism left. I eat pretty healthy, but I don\u2019t obsess about it. If I have a bad day of eating, I don\u2019t worry about it. By this time, it\u2019s pretty clear I\u2019m not going to die prematurely. Obviously, what I\u2019m eating is working for me because I\u2019m 89 and I\u2019m still here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"At At 89, Marion’s proof that healthy eating can be delicious and sustainable. (Made using ChatGPT) At 89, Marion eats these foods to stay healthy<\/p>\n

Asked what she eats for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, Marion said, \u201cI start with coffee <\/a>between 8 and 9 am. I\u2019ll have a couple of cups of weak coffee with milk, no sugar… I don\u2019t get hungry until about 10:30 or 11 am. That\u2019s when I\u2019ll usually have oatmeal… my lunches are totally irregular. Sometimes I\u2019ll have a salad for lunch. Or if I\u2019m having lunch with someone, then I\u2019ll eat whatever is in the restaurant. If I\u2019m at home in New York City, I\u2019ll harvest whatever is growing on my terrace. The peaches, cherries, raspberries and blueberries that I was growing are long gone. But I\u2019ve still got some lettuce and tomatoes, so I\u2019m going to go out and pick those. I might cut up some cheese or have it with peanuts. And I might have some bread with that…(Dinner) depends. I just don\u2019t eat that much. But I do really like salads. I can have salads twice a day. If I\u2019m at home, I might have an egg. I might have crackers and cheese with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t like ultra-processed foods\u2019<\/p>\n

Asked what some foods that she loves are, Marion said, \u201cFortunately, I like a lot of very simple foods. I like vegetables. I like eggs. I like cheese. I do eat some ultra-processed foods. But not a lot of them. I don\u2019t like ultra-processed foods that have a long list of ingredients. Most of those don\u2019t taste good to me. I do really like vegetables. I like the crunch, the flavours, and the colours. That makes it easy to eat healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marion added that she doesn\u2019t take supplements<\/a> because she ‘eats a healthy diet and thinks she doesn\u2019t need them’. Asked if she had any advice for people, she said ‘eating healthfully in today\u2019s society is very difficult because you\u2019re fighting an entire food industry on your own and that industry is trying to sell you the most profitable, least healthy foods available’. But one thing you can do is ‘read food labels<\/a>‘, according to her, as ‘there\u2019s a lot of information on them’.<\/p>\n

Note to readers: This article is for informational purposes only and not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your doctor with any questions about a medical condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marion Nestle, who resides in New York City and Ithaca, is a renowned figure in the field of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[79093,163,1168,85,46,79092,543,1708,65990],"class_list":{"0":"post-125185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-89-year-old-nutrition-expert-from-new-york-shares-diet-secrets-for-long-life-i-like-vegetables-eggs-cheese","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-healthy-diet","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-marion-nestle","14":"tag-nutrition","15":"tag-processed-foods","16":"tag-whole-foods"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}