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First, some geography. Ikaria is an isolated Greek island in the Aegean Sea.

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Amid the lush green forests and beautiful waters, you'll find people who live longer than anywhere else on Earth.

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Buettner says only about 20 percent of how long we live is dictated by genes; the rest is lifestyle.

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What makes Ikaria special? According to Buettner, the island is mostly insulated from the mechanized conveniences and the fast-food culture of modern society. This has helped them to preserve age-old customs and lifestyle habits that scientists believe explain their exceptional lifespan.

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[rabidralph]

It’s probably yogurt.

[Huskrrrr]

[SkyDancer]

Why?

[riri]

Having spent some time on a Croatian island in the Aegean, I can tell you it's the damned way of life. It's frikking magical.

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.

[Revolting cat!]

The Secret: Be Greek!

[Revolting cat!]

The Secret: Help me Rhonda, Help, help me, Rhonda!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Retire at 45 and let someone else pay all your bills.

[webstersII]

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.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

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.

[Revolting cat!]

The Greeks used to be so cool, ya know, sacrificial lambs, eagle eating Prometheus' liver every day, Zorba, Kojak, Fiddler on the roof, until American vegetarians showed up, and now look what happened: beans and yogurt!

(Daily diet of this Greek!)

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

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.

[Revolting cat!]

The Secret: Ouzo. Daily.

[kabumpo]

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.

[real saxophonist]

They don’t have Facebook, or Free Republic.

[Cyman]

Yup the secret is, don’t pay any taxes.

[hecticskeptic]

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.

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