For decades, bread, pasta and potatoes have been demonised, blamed for piling on the pounds, sending blood sugar soaring and sabotaging our hopes of healthy ageing.
But now, new research from the University of Sydney suggests eating more of them could not only help us age better, but may even help turn back the biological clock.
The study divided adults aged 65 to 75 into four groups and put each group on a different diet for four weeks. Those who followed the "omnivorous high-carbohydrate diet" – where 14 per cent of their calories came from protein, 28 to 29 per cent from fat and 53 per cent from carbohydrates – showed the strongest improvement in markers used to estimate biological age.
