WHO’S BEST AT LIVING LONGEST - Blue Zones

1 Longevity2national geographic november 2004 OKINAWAAt vero eos et accusam et justo duo doloreset ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no seatakimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sitamet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetursadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmodtempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magnaaliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At veroTHE SECRETS OFWHO S best AT LIVING LONGESTSARDINIAAt vero eos et accusam et justo duo doloreset ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no seatakimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sitamet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetursadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmodtempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magnaaliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.

2 At veroLOMA LINDAAt vero eos et accusam et justo duo doloreset ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no seatakimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sitamet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetursadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmodtempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magnaaliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At veroeos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea re-OkinawaJAPANWHERE PEOPLE LIVE LONGERL orem ipsum dolor sitamet, consetetur sadip-scing elitr, sed diam nonumyeirmod temporinvidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyamerat, sed diam voluptua. Lorem ipsum dolorsitamet, consetetur and this is Sardiniaolorsitamet, consete-tur sadipscingelitr, sed diamnonumyeirmodtempor inviduntut labore et doloremagna aliquyamerat, sed diamvoluptua.

3 Loremipsum dolor sita-met, conseteturand this is Sardiniaolorsitamet, consete-tur sadipscingelitr, sed diamnonumyeirmodtempor inviduntut labore et doloremagna aliquyamerat, sed diamvoluptua. LoremIn Sardiniaolorsitamet, consete-tur sadipscingelitr, sed diamnonumyeirmodtempor inviduntut labore et doloremagna aliquyamerat, sed diamvoluptua. LoremLosAngelesLomaLindasecrets of longevity98national geographic november 2005BY DAN BUETTNER PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID McLAINTom Perls of Harvard estimates that ifyou adopt an optimal diet, lifestyle, andlevel of physical activity, you can addas many as eight years to your most of them would like-ly be good years. So what sthe formula?

4 During the past decade,researchers have studies apocket in Sardinia, Italy,where men reach age onehundred at the highest ratein the the plan-et on the islands of Okinawa,Japan,another group of scientistshave been examining a populationthat outlives everybody else. And in LomaLinda, California, researchers have identified agroup of Seventh Day Adventists who areAmerica s longevity in these regions, the researchersfound, live as much as a decade longer thantheir counterparts elsewhere, produce severaltimes more centenarians, suffer a fraction ofthe diseases the kill most Americans, and en-joy more good years of life than anyone elseAnd there s another problem. Your bodywas designed to wear out.

5 Once you reach re-productive age, plus enough years to raiseyour offspring, any life you have remaining isdue to genetic leftovers; think of it as your bi-ological software expiring. Technology s nohelp: There s no diet, supplement, pill hor-mone therapy, or gene manipulation that sbeen proven to slow the aging process. Wecan t expect to make humans live longer if wecan t figure out how to make a car last morethan ten years, says Leonard Hayflick of theUniversity of California at San you do have the power to add time toyour life and more significantly, life to individuals,perhaps one tenth ofone percent of the population, will win the ge-netic lottery and live to be one hundred.

6 Therest, if they live in the developed world, can ex-pect to reach their late 70s, for men, or early80s, for women. No matter what your geneticinheritance, there are things you can do to makethe most ofyour body s potential. You can slowthe aging process, for example, by reducing yourconsumption of calories, by avoiding smoking,overexposure to the sun, or prolonged if I said you could addseven or eight years to yourlife? What would that beworth? First the Good News. For the pastcentury and a half, life expectancy in thiscountry has only gone up. Having defeatedparasitic and infectious diseases such asmalaria, pneumonia, and small pox, medicalscience has steadily chipped away at diseasesof aging such as cancer, heart disease, and de-mentia.

7 James Vaupel, a demographer at theMax Plank Institute, figures that life expectan-cy has increased by about two years a decadesince 1840 and he sees no reason for it tostop. By 2050, he estimates, half of all thewomen born in the developed world willreach age one the bad news. Last March a team ofresearchers led by Jay Olshansky at the Uni-versity of Illinois found that life expectancy inthe may have started to level off or evento dip. For the first time in LIVING history, thenext generation of Americans could live short-er lives than the previous one. The culprit:childhood obesity and ailments such as diabetesand heart disease that result from it later in FamilyDrink Red WineEat Whole Grains and Fava BeansLet Women Run the HouseStay ActiveADVENTISTSHave FaithKeep SabbathDrink Soy MilkEat Nuts and LegumesALLDon t Smoke Stay Physically ActiveKeep Socially EngagedCherish FamilyEat A Plant-Based Diet OKINAWANS Be PurposefulAvoid Time UrgencyEat PlantsStay FriendsTry To Be Likeableon the planet.

8 In essence, they offer three setsof best practices for the rest of us to emu-late. And one more sentence here to fill TITLED elve deeper i the complex, and attimes mysterious, workings of the carbon cycle with the amazinresources compiled by the world renowned experts at your mag-azine of magazines. Find out how to live to be ancient here the work shed behind his house in Salinus, Sardinia, seven-ty-five year old Tonino Tola emerges elbow-deep from thesteaming carcass of a freshly-slaughtered bull, sets down hisknife, and greets me with a warm, bloody handshake. Thenhe moves his thick red-glistening fingers to the chin of hisfive-month old grandson, Filippo who regards the scene thewith cooing glee from his mother s arms and purrs a seeminglyuniversal, goochi, goochi For this strapping, six-foot-twoshepherd relentless hard work and family compose the fabric ofeveryday life and they may help explain why Tonino and his kinlive longer than any other population of males on the is located on the sloping fringes of a mountainous re-gion in central Sardinia where parched pastures erupt into granitepeaks.

9 There, a team of scientists led by Belgian demographer, Poulain, recently quantified a sub region where peopleoutlive any other European population and whose men reach age100 at a rate X times greater than the proportion. In Ameri-ca, we have one male centenarian for every 70,000 people. In thiscluster of mountain villages, of the 17,865 people born between1880 and 1900, 47 men lived past their 100th birthday. Poulainand his colleagues have dubbed this region of extraordinarylongevity the blue why the extraordinary longevity here? Genes may holdpart of the answer. Stanford-trained physical anthropologist, Francalacci and his team at the University of Sarssari havetraced the Sardinians genetic roots to the Iberian Peninsula bytracking the M26 marker a genetic mutation found in the Y Chromosome.

10 Eleven thousand years ago a handful of peoplewho originated near what is today the Basque Country, madetheir way around the Mediterranean, through Corsica to familyLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor in-vidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam etjusto duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Loremipsum dolor sit amet. 10national geographic november 2005 HCentenarians ate aplant-based diet untilat least 1950 sHSeniors who livewith their familieslive longer, higherquality lives12national geographic november 2005 Several millennia of hunting and gathering gave rise to theBronze-age Nuragi culture that cultivated the fertile coastalplains.