[Fish out of Water]

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"Drinking wine, spo-dee-oh-dee."

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Deng Xiaoping biography

[TopQuark]

>I>HIGH in the hills of a remote part of southern China, the villagers claim to have discovered the secret of long life: rice wine, drunk more or less all day long; snake wine; and a soup made from the oily seeds of the cannabis plant.

Such life is long but what is it worth?

[Thumper1960]

Drunk and stoned. Living the vida loca....Commie/commune style. 100+ and three teeth to show for it.

Ahhhhhhhhh! The virtues of the Socialist life!

"Come on, Comrades! Vote Dim and you, too, can be be just like us!"

[breakem]

kewl!

[GiovannaNicoletta]

So does this mean that all this time that I've been forcing down a cup of green tea every single day was for naught?

I thought that's how the Chinese lived so long.

[Mahone]

They aren't really all that old, they just look that way from the life they've led!

[a history buff]

hmmm.

[ctonious]

Bama county is so cut off by the hills that surround it that the motor car has yet to penetrate.

..but Southern Man don't need them around anyhow.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

I'm gonna stop off and pick up ol' A+Bert and we're gonna go off to Shangra La.

They's po', but they's good peeple!

[mercy]

I was hoping to get an explanation of how the human liver could accomodate this much alchohol over such an extended time. Is it something about 'rice' wine that does not pickle the liver as nearly all other forms of grain alchohol seem to do? I'm intrigued.

If these fools would cut their drinking in half they'd probably live much longer. Their longevity is no doubt genetic, not due to diet. Doesn't sound like they have much stress in their lives either and that always helps.

[SamAdams76]

Americans are quickly catching up to the Chinese with respect to longevity. We now have some 40,000 centarians in the U.S. and by 2030, America will have one million centarians and most of them are already in their 70s today!

That said, I do believe that simple living and responsible consumption of alcohol have a lot to do with living a long life.