By whom (apart from yourself), and on what grounds. Evidence please.
And has it been debunked because the centenarians don't actually eat what the researcher said, or because the debunkers don't fancy changing their own diets?
I don't fancy eating bitter melons myself, but that wouldn't make me suggest that the centenarians didn't eat them, and the researcher was making it up.
Organized by Hawaiians who's families had emigrated from Okinawa in the past in the hope that the pigs would breed and become a reliable future food source.Or that the first import to Okinawa post the second world war was pigs?
As they had been pre-war?Organized by Hawaiians who's families had emigrated from Okinawa in the past in the hope that the pigs would breed and become a reliable future food source.
Organized by Hawaiians who's families had emigrated from Okinawa in the past in the hope that the pigs would breed and become a reliable future food source.
Why ask me I thought you knew every thing your post was about after the war yes they did eat meat including pork pre war the average consumption of pork in Okinawais is now about 3 grams a day the quantity of pork consumption per person a year in Okinawa in 1979 was about 8 kg.As they had been pre-war?
That's my biggest fear, having seen both my mum and my 100+ year old MIL "away with the fairies" for the last 10 or so years of their lives.Quality of life needs to go with longevity. All very well being Captain Tom but living as a near vegetable in a miserable nursing home is not something I would want, just to get the telegram.
In my family history and social history studies over the last 20 odd years has taught me that in England almost every household kept at least one pig. My ex father-in-law's home in South Wales, an old small terraced house, had a pig sty at the bottom of his garden. Thankfully no longer used in the days I used to visit. In East Lancashire near the Yorkshire border people made a lot of money growing and selling turnips for pig fodder. I have a copy of an accounts book kept by a shop keeper. On one day in 1804 she sold "half a load of turnips" to a man for 3 shillings, 1 stone of turnips to a lady for 6d. and another stone to a man for 6d. All for the pigs. She also sold 4 and a half stones of apples, which I also assume was mostly for the pigs. We have just returned from a cottage holiday in Warwickshire. The terraced cottage was built around 1880 in a row of about 20 others. Behind the back gardens were stone built outhouses now used as storage, but they have troughs round the walls. A neighbour informed us they were piggeries. Bacon was part of their every day staple diet.
So are you suggesting that ALL the centenarians in ALL the diverse Blue Zones are lying about their food intake? Why would they bother?Its also been debunked quite a few times.
So are you suggesting that ALL the centenarians in ALL the diverse Blue Zones are lying about their food intake? Why would they bother?
We can be pretty sure it isn't neat grease either.I think that whatever centenarians around the world eat we can be pretty sure it isn't a diet of factory made, meal replacement shakes with only 800 cals...
Lots of pork though...still not watched the video eh?We can be pretty sure it isn't neat grease either.
In an attempt to get back on track with @Cocosilk 's original question --
I have read that the Mediterranean Diet can help with longevity.
I don't know about specific ways of eating for longevity; I do know that my mother lived to be 90 and her diet was well rounded (like herself) but she did not eat a lot of fish, I don't imagine she ever ate olive oil; she did use margarine instead of butter, skim milk instead of whole, black coffee without cream, and she loved chocolate, chili dogs, and ice cream. My father, on a fairly high-carb diet due to diverticulitis, lived to be 89. His father lived to be 70-something, but his eldest brother died of a heart attack at 57 (he smoked).
It's probably just as much to do with something else as it is with diet. My husband's nona is 98 years old and he thinks she's still alive in spite of whatever she has eaten all her life. So there's that too. Some people are just survivors I guess.
And not having accidents or catching diseases, my grandfather was a healthy 75 when he was hit by a car and killed, the perfect diet wouldn't have helped.I agree. Environment and genes play a major role in longevity.
And not having accidents or catching diseases, my grandfather was a healthy 75 when he was hit by a car and killed, the perfect diet wouldn't have helped.
At least that's one thing I don't have to worry about.they could be bitten by a copperhead and die before the paramedics arrived with antivenom
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