“Let food be
thy medicine and medicine be thy food” - Hippocrates
Longevity
Longevity in
this context simply means how long can you live for and have a happy,
healthy and energetic lifestyle?
With today's challenges from the
environment, pollution, resources, water, food quality, health challenges of
obesity, cancer, osteoporosis and the like, what can one do?
Well a good
start would be to look at your own diet and lifestyle. You can learn cutting
edge information from the masters!
Okinawa
Okinawa is
a collection of islands strung between Taiwan and Japan. The
Okinawa project began in 1975 and is a world famous study of the world's longest
living people. The study looked at genetic and lifestyle factors that
contribute towards a long and healthy life. There are many websites that
share information and capitalise on this study. Many of the websites and
the books about the Okinawa project work with a small part of the data
and then use this to promote various diet programs. Much of the food in
these programs did not even exist in its current form, for the Okinawa people, so beware.
Having said all that, the study itself is interesting and maybe if you google it, you will find better data than I found.
The Valley
of Vilcabamba (Sacred Valley) in Equador is known as the valley of
longevity, because of its reputation for an ideal climate and the
longevity of its inhabitants.
Links
Peter Pure
has invited me to his 200th birthday. I'm so looking forward to this.
Need to check the date and put it in my diary! If you live in the UK or
Europe, Peter would be a good place to start.
If you
want to be young and sexy over fifty, or even over seventy, then this
young lady has much to offer. Her advise is easy to understand and
pragmatic.
"Why does one person die younger and another survive to
old age? Lifestyle and genetic factors play a role, but argues Prof David
Barker, a better predictor of future health is our birthweight and what it
tells us about our development in the womb."
The Hippocrates Health Institute
"The Hippocrates
Health Institute has been the preeminent leader in the field of natural and
complementary health care and education since 1956."
Hmm! I don't think that the carrots in the Okinawa
market, would have been in plastic bags one hundred years ago!
What
about the health and longevity of other creatures on the planet,
especially the sheep In Ovodda, Crete?
In the final clip I was shocked to see how the Okinawa
traditional lifestyle is now all lost in the younger generations. I
can't help thinking about the issues raised by Tony Wright and Graham
Gynn in ‘Left in the Dark’ and what is happening here.
Paul
"The quest to live longer is one of humanity's oldest
dreams and three isolated communities seem to have stumbled across the
answer. So what can they teach us about a longer life?"
