BBC:
Something remarkable links the remote Japanese island of Okinawa, the small Sardinian mountain town of Ovodda and Loma Linda in the US. People live longer in these three places than anywhere else on earth.
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Yup I can see why Loma Linda was on the list and in addition there is a well regarded 7th Day Adventist Medical Center and a Veteran's Hospital so the demographics may skew older.
The minus being it's subject to occassional smoggy days and it part of the LA suburban sprawl milieu. But I'd live there or in next door Redlands they are 2 of the nicer cities in San Bernardino County.
If these people love Jesus so much, why do they want to live so long and thus delay meeting him for as long as possibly? A tad of hypocrisy maybe?
My father is 99. He smokes a pack of cigarettes every day and has done so for more than 80 years. He drinks a shot of bourbon every afternoon. He never exercises and he hates to go outdoors. He has never eaten a green vegetable. He lives in South Florida.
He's got genes of steel.
The juxtaposition of this photo and the headline 'beneath' it was noteworthy.
I think Okinawas are beneficiaries of isolation with a mineral packed rain that bathes the veggies they consume. Their fish comes from mineral packed waters.
I read of the people of Ovodda within the last couple of months on this site. Their marriage habits, maybe. But, they consume meat that has grazed on grass with no need to feed a deadly corn/soy diet. Dairy is important in their diets and I'm sure it is raw dairy, providing the healthy bacteria that are killed in pasteurization, rendering the grocery shelf product rancid.
Excuse me, but who wants to live to look like that? Who wants to scare babies and puppies?
This is the face of someone who would be honored for the life lived and the knowledge passed on to the following generations.
I assume the picture is female, someone's mother and grandmother. You and I will be dumped on the heap of scary folks, not this dear, valued soul. That honor and respect from younger generations would extend life.
We lose.
It's actually John Mccain's little sister.
Okinawa: why not, after all it combines a clean, traditional Japanese (I know, Okinawans tend to be separatist and don't think of themselves as Japanese..
Ovodda: I'm sure the nature is wonderful and pristine and the inhabitants are friendly, but the nearest big city (Cagliari, I believe) is hundreds of kilometers away and I doubt I could live among goat herders for more than a month.
Loma Linda: not if you pay me a million $$$.
Remember: QUALITY is better than quantity..
I want to live a long time, but not that long. A good 80-90 years will do. Then, we'll see what's next. I'm curious to see who was right about the afterlife all along.
Hello, bradio1.
I, too, look toward maybe 80 years. I don' think folks factor in losing friends and, yes, children past a certain age.
I'm very interested in what's next.
As people live longer they upset the actuarial tables of the Social Security Administration. Can we sustain the kind of world where the people who work for forty-plus years will support the increasing numbers of those who live for forty-plus in retirement?
So then mandatory death at 90 if you are living on SS? Harsh
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First Posted: 02-20-08 02:12 PM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:46 AM