Thisis how it is going to be everywhere. The benefits are plainlyobvious and good health at a hundred is plausible and possible. Meatonce a week is good enough light alcohol on occasion is fine andbeneficial and working a couple hours in your garden is a really goodplan. I am not organized for that yet but it is on my list over thenext three years.
Imust say though that reaching my age, one discovers that all thoseunhappy people who drink and smoke are no longer about anyway and itbe comes really easy to develop sound habits.
Andyes, nuts are a great idea as they are just about the only thing thatone can eat without preparation or the removal of a wrapper. Theyeven have nutritional benefit.
Soinstall a sack of nuts at your work station to handle those munchies.
How to Live to aRipe Old Age
Cathy Newman
National GeographicNewsPublished December 27,2012
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/12/121227-dan-buettner-health-longevity-100-centenarians-science-blue-zones/
Cento di questigiorni. May you have a hundred birthdays, the Italians say, and someof them do.
So do other people invarious spots around the world—in Blue Zones, so namedby National Geographic Fellow Dan Buettner for the blue ink thatoutlines these special areas on maps developed over more than adecade. (National Geographic News is part of the National GeographicSociety.)
In his second editionof his book The Blue Zones, Buettner writes about a newlyidentified Blue Zone: the Greek island of Ikaria(map). National Geographic magazine Editor at Large Cathy Newmaninterviewed him about the art of living long and well. (WatchBuettner talk about how to live to a hundred.)
Q. You've writtenabout Blue Zones in Sardinia, Italy; Loma Linda, California;Nicoa, Costa Rica; and Okinawa, Japan. How did you find your way toIkaria?
A. Michel Poulain, ademographer on the project, and I are always on the lookout for newBlue Zones. This one popped up in 2008. We got a lead from a Greekfoundation looking for biological markers in aging people. The censusdata showed clusters of villages there with a striking proportion ofpeople 85 or older. (Also see blog: "Secrets of theHappiest Places on Earth.")
In the course of yourquest you've been introduced to remarkable individuals like100-year-old Marge Jetton of Loma Linda, California, who startsthe day with a mile-long [0.6-kilometer] walk, 6 to 8 miles [10 to 13kilometers] on a stationary bike, and weight lifting. Who is themost memorable Blue Zoner you've met?
Without question it'sStamatis Moraitis, who lives in Ikaria. I believe he's 102. He'sfamous for partying. He makes 400 liters [100 gallons] of wine fromhis vineyards each year, which he drinks with his friends. His houseis the social hot spot of the island. (See "Longevity GenesFound; Predict Chances of Reaching 100.")
He's also the Ikarianwho emigrated to the United States, was diagnosed with lung cancer inhis 60s, given less then a year to live, and who returned to Ikariato die. Instead, he recovered.[he has obviously been trying to drink himself to death ever since oncheap wine – arclein ]
Yes, he never wentthrough chemotherapy or treatment. He just moved back to Ikaria.
Did anyone figure outhow he survived?
Nope. He told me hereturned to the U.S. ten years after he left to see if the Americandoctors could explain it. I asked him what happened. "My doctorswere all dead," he said.
One of the commonfactors that seem to link all Blue Zone people you've spoken with isa life of hard work—and sometimes hardship. Your thoughts?
I think we live in aculture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related todisease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship alsobrings people together. We should welcome it.
Sounds like anotherversion of the fable of the grasshopper and the ant?
You rarely getsatisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on theother hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
Can you talk aboutdiet? Not all of us have access to goat milk, for example, which yousay is typically part of an Ikarian breakfast.
There is nothingexotic about their diet, which is a version of a Mediterranean diet,which emphasizes vegetables, beans, fruit, olive oil, andmoderate amounts of alcohol. (Read more about Buettner'swork in Ikaria in National Geographic Adventure.)
All things inmoderation?
Not all things.Socializing is something we should not do in moderation. The happiestAmericans socialize six hours a day.
The people you hangout with help you hang on to life?
Yes, you have topay attention to your friends. Health habits are contagious. Hangingout with unhappy people who drink and smoke is hazardous to yourhealth.[our own society, at least here in Vancouver is noticeably changingout bad habits bit by bit. In the meantime that advice is great]
So how has what you'velearned influenced your own lifestyle?
One of the big thingsI've learned is that there's an advantage to regularlow-intensity activity. My previous life was settingrecords on my bike. [Buettner holds three world records in distancecycling.] Now I use my bike to commute. I only eat meatonce a week, and I always keep nuts in my office: Those who eat nutslive two to three more years than those who don't.
You also write abouthaving a purpose in life.
Purpose is huge. Iknow exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worthadditional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that wouldbe easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
The Japanese you metin Okinawa have a word for that?
Yes. Ikigai: "Thereason for which I wake in the morning."
Do you have anon-longevity-enhancing guilty pleasure?
Tequila is myweakness.
And how long would youlike to live?
I'd like to live to be200.
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