Posted on 03/30/2016 6:38:29 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
Diet rich in rosemary linked to good health and long life expectancy in Italian village
Medical experts will examine pensioners living in Acciaroli near Salerno.
They have remarkable record for living for longer but also free of disease.
Population of a few thousand has about 300 people who are aged over 100 Mediterranean diet, fresh air and walking thought to influence long lives...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I had an Uncle who lived to a hundred.
His wife always called him “Mr. Anderson” which I thought odd. He was a great story teller and liked telling them. He smoked a pipe and it always smelled good unlike cigarettes.
Or throw some rosemary into the insides of a chicken along with some lemon rinds. Wonderful!
It couldn’t be that the residents of that small village have common genes, could it?
Wow, rosemary!
I woulda thought it would be garlic.
Which is good too, of course.
Mmm mmm mmm.
I planted a nice Rosemary plant in the garden last year that I grew from seed. I’m afraid it probably didn’t winter over though. Lots of sub-zero spells this year including two nights in late March. The first time we’ve ever had sub-zero temps at any time in March AFAIK.
“It is just math”
Sure, but the math is different in every country ... And there are “blue zones” in locations around the world, where very large numbers of people over 100 live (Costa Rica, a Greek island, Sardinia, etc) so their math is different.
Or genetics within a small intertwined group of people.
“Eating rosemary is sage advice. It will buy you more thyme.”
well done.
No, vodka is the herbal cure-all.
Right?
Groan.. But a good one.
How ‘bout a little on some chicken thighs and potato chunks, with a little olive oil -—— and roasted or sautéed. Yum.
Ah, but I’m sure the study will also show rosemary increases the chance you’ll join la Cosa Nostra, where life expectancies are greatly reduced. ;-)
It’s a trick that snake oil salesmen and lawyers use. Find a cluster of old people (or sick people). Find something that is prevalent in that area. Then using the principle that correlation = causation suck the bucks in from the rubes.
My favorite is Garcinia. It comes from Sri Lanka! They use it a lot! They are skinny people! Therefore Garcinia makes you skinny. Buy it from me for $30 a bottle. (Costs me .50 a bottle to import it from Sri Lanka). LOL!
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme
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Another form of snake oil that’s been used to control people for almost 2000 years.
Since when die London Broil become Broiled Puppy?
[Another form of snake oil thats been used to control people for almost 2000 years.]
TRUST ME. It happened.
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