A healthy lifestyle and preventable death?

What are the six lifestyle factors that collectively appear to cut the risk of dying prematurely

in half?

Not smoking, not drinking heavily, walking an hour a day, sleeping around seven hours a night,

not being overweight, and the sixth is the one dietary quality indicator they used,

eating your greens.

Most people don't eat enough, but is it possible to eat too many?

I've talked about the risk of getting too many oxalates by eating too many of certain

greens like spinach and Swiss chard.

What about low oxalate greens like kale or collards?

This cabbage family of vegetables has natural goyrogenic compounds that can interfere with

thyroid function.

They can compete with our thyroid's uptake of iodine.

But the answer is not to avoid these super healthy foods,

but rather to get enough iodine in our diet, as I've talked about before. There is, however,

an extreme threshold we don't want to cross. How much is too much? From the New England

Journal of Medicine, coma induced by the ingestion of raw bok choy.

A woman had been eating about three pounds a day, every day, which means 15 cups a day

is too much.

In the two months before she was admitted to the intensive care unit in respiratory

failure with a diagnosis of severe hypothyroidism, she had consumed at least a thousand

cups of raw bok choy.

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