Turn back time: What you eat can make you look and feel younger

Adding some vegetables, berries and leafy greens to your diet could benefit your biological age, Peta Bee learns

Any berry is good in your diet and the more of them you eat the better.

Has the last year of stressful successive lockdowns taken its toll on your body? Do you feel you have aged five or even 10 years in the last 12 months? You are not alone. But what if you were told that by eating the right foods you could turn back the clock by more than three years in just eight weeks?

According to Dr Kara Fitzgerald, a researcher at the Institute for Functional Medicine in Washington DC and lead author of a groundbreaking paper published in the journal Aging it is possible to reverse the ageing process through simple dietary changes. Simply by switching to a diet rich in leafy greens, cruciferous vegetables and berries a group of middle-aged participants in her trial dramatically reduced their biological age compared to a control group who stuck to their regular diet.