Posted on 07/15/2012 5:28:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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National Geographic writer Dan Buettner seeks out "Blue Zones," a few pockets around the world where a higher number of people live for a remarkably long time.
The remote island of Ikaria in Greece is one hotspot of exceptional human longevity. Here, there are more healthy people over 90 than any other place on the planet.
Buettner and his team spent 15 months studying the centenarians of Ikaria. The trip was documented in a series of videos, in which the researchers identified eight major secrets to reaching a record-setting age.
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So: the answer isn’t ObamaCare?
It’s probably yogurt.
The secret to having many people in a given area living long lives is living in a place with little or no record of their date of birth.
Why?
RE: Why?
READ THE ARTICLE
RE: The secret to having many people in a given area living long lives is living in a place with little or no record of their date of birth.
The Greek economy might be tanking, but even they are not so backwards that they fail to keep birth certificate records. This is not a primitive country. This is a country that hosted the Olympics in 2004.
I ate on a smaller island one day. Most of the island was owned by a German immigrant. He was 70 years old and he didn't look a day over 45. He had been there for 49 years or so. It's more than genetics. It's the way of life also.
...Close multi-generational families.....old guys keep working ...(carpenter, beekeeper, goat-herder, fisherman, ...) take afternoon naps and don’t wear watches.
The Secret: Be Greek!
Tryptophan is a natural sedative. They basically live in stasis, with their metabolism being slowed down. Makes sense if you think about it. Every living organism goes through a predetermined number of cell divisions. If you slow down the division rate, then the oranism lasts longer. How long do the goats live on this island?
Bartering is king. You put up my wall and I'll give you my olive oil.
Fresh olive oil in mass quantities, fresh veggies, homemade wines and hooch, fresh fish...
The Secret: Help me Rhonda, Help, help me, Rhonda!
I love you guys. Somebody posts something and you irreverent FR miscreants explode things in short order - beautiful.
Retire at 45 and let someone else pay all your bills.
There is not one “correct” diet for the entire human race. This is a fallacy which was proven wrong by Weston Price and many others.
When a population eats the same thing that their ancestors have eaten for many, many generations, they will thrive. This is because over time those who will survive and procreate are those who can survive on that diet.
Japanese people are healthy when they eat as their ancestors ate. This is in spite of them smoking, for example. There are tribes in Africa where the people are very healthy even though they have a diet of mostly meat and milk, with a few vegetables or berries.
If the author wanted to research something interesting about the Med, he should explore how little heart disease they have other there versus how much pork and lard they eat. But that would be against the agenda of some of the science community to promote vegetarianism as the healthiest lifestyle.
The “why” was for why live to be a hundred? Also, caps lock sticking?
Ok, Seek and Find, I am glad you posted this if no one else is....
It doesn’t look like they have retirement homes, or kill off the elderly first chance they get. Maybe that has something to do with it.
(Daily diet of this Greek!)
Ok, Seek and Find, I am glad you posted this if no one else is....
It doesn’t look like they have retirement homes, or kill off the elderly first chance they get. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Hiccup!
I went to Santorini in May...what a place! It was easy to imagine staying there - the cares of the world wash away.
You have to wonder what this modern live has really gained us.
I’ll die young before i’ll eat like that!
How weird - I actually spent time on that unpleasant, barren island - could not wait to leave - years later I learned that it’s where the Greek communists were sent into exile - it’s like a prison island - just awful.
I forgot to add that the food on Ikaria was terrible - swimming in grease - I’m not making a pun. The marvelous food is in Turkey.
I think a sense of humor is absolutely necessary to living past 100.
They don’t have Facebook, or Free Republic.
Yup the secret is, don’t pay any taxes.
The Wikipedia article mentions Anthony Papalas, who has written a book in English about the island (his family is from there). The Greeks call it the "red island" because the Greek Communist Party gets a high percentage of the vote there.
Being happily married to somebody who has a good understanding about what 1 Corinthians 7:4-5 means and lives it out goes a long long way to having a long and healthy life..... The infidelity of defraudment probably kills more people than the infidelity of adultery.
....lot of home made jam, vinegar, and veggies & herbs.... now fattening up this years crop of goats for relocation to the freezer.
I lived on Ikaria for some years.
FReep mail me in 30 years and if I don't reply you will know it doesn't work.
Never have heard of the Blue Zone diet. I will have to look that up.
Interesting that you have lived there. (a kind Freeper let me know I had my seas mixed up, I think I meant to say Adriatic). Still and all that little corner of the world is just heavenly to me.
The videos describe the way the team’s demographic expert went into the local records office and looked at the records of births, marriages, and deaths. There is footage showing him scouting the graveyards, too. He was confirming the ages people claimed they had attained.
Check out the 10 videos by National Geographic linked above....
Mrs Spokeshave knows some of those old geezers.
Yes, I read that. It figures that of all the multitude of islands that make up Greece, the one that my friend’s friend’s grandmother lived on was the ugly stony Communist one that didn’t even have any ruins of note. That’s what growing up in NYC gets you. Even the obscure Greek island you visit is a Communist hellhole.
One: lots of old people. As a percentage? as a percentage of what? Are there a lot of old people because for the last 40 years, the young have migrated away?
Two: what percentage of people born 100 years ago died at an early age of typhoid, tb, malnutrition, etc.?
Three: what percentage of the island died in World War I and II?
Four: Did you check their birth certificates? Their baptismal certificates? Fakery is not uncommon in the elderly...
Faster horses
Younger women
Older whiskey
More money
Well, thats always been a reference for life...lol.
Truth be told, since this current regime has taken power, I have drank more 12 yr old whisky than ever before.
(good thing or bad thing - ?)
Careful...the big booze companies might start donating to Obama figuring that people will buy a lot more whiskey if he is re-elected.
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