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They don't tell you that everyone alive in the photos is a walking petri dish of tropical microbes, is riddled with parasites, haven't had a firm stool since Suharto was president, have persistent coughs which they medicate with cigarettes including the children, and have an average life expectancy of 48.

[punchamullah]

Not so. My Torajan wife’s grandfather died at age 103, and my mother in law still works her rice paddy at 87. Her hearing is gone, and her eyes fog up now and again, but I have never known her to be sick nor infirm. Their chili seems to inoculate them.