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2019-02-22 Science

People In Okinawa Live Longer Than Almost Anyone On Earth. Here's What They Eat.

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-22 08:16|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Wait. I thought all the stresses of the big military base there was killing them. Or so the media has been saying...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-22 08:24|| 2019-02-22 08:24|| Front Page Top

#2 How much of lifespan is due to genetics? How much to exercise?

Posted by trailing wife 2019-02-22 08:35|| 2019-02-22 08:35|| Front Page Top

#3 And how much to holobiont?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-22 08:45|| 2019-02-22 08:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Word of the day is now holobiont.

Holobionts are assemblages of different species that form ecological units. Lynn Margulis proposed that any physical association between individuals of different species for significant portions of their life history is a symbiosis. All participants in the symbiosis are bionts, and therefore the resulting assemblage was first coined a holobiont by Lynn Margulis in 1991 in the book Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation. Holo is derived from the Ancient Greek word ὅλος ‎(hólos) for “whole”. The entire assemblage of genomes in the holobiont is termed a hologenome.

Posted by jpal 2019-02-22 09:01|| 2019-02-22 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 You'll live longer eating that rabbit food instead of delicious steaks and burgers - question is: Why would you want to?

Posted by Frank G 2019-02-22 09:40|| 2019-02-22 09:40|| Front Page Top

#6 How much of lifespan is due to genetics? How much to exercise?

Please madam, let us not ask pertinent but embarrassing questions that make our research look like New York tabloid click-bait.

Posted by SteveS 2019-02-22 09:52|| 2019-02-22 09:52|| Front Page Top

#7 How many old folks go to hospitals on the main land, and end up dying there, thus altering the numbers?

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-02-22 10:13|| 2019-02-22 10:13|| Front Page Top

#8 "Overall, it is a low-calorie, high-carbohydrate ― mainly due to the sweet potatoes ― moderate-protein and nutrient-rich diet, with sparse amounts of meat, refined grains, sugar and dairy."

Utter crap. This is based on an old study performed right after WWII. Prior to the war Okinawa ate more pork per capita than anywhere else in the world, but the war killed off the pig population. Just a few years after the war the pig population had been restored and Okinawan were eating pork again. This data is from the very brief post war period when there simply wasn't any pork to be had.

Posted by Iblis 2019-02-22 11:07|| 2019-02-22 11:07|| Front Page Top

#9 The traditional local diet ― rich in vegetables, soy products and seafood

The secret to long life is roughage, estrogen and mercury?

Posted by Whavitle Omaling6026 2019-02-22 11:23|| 2019-02-22 11:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh and lots of salt.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-02-22 11:37|| 2019-02-22 11:37|| Front Page Top

#11 How many smoke everyday? That might kill the message a bit.

Posted by Airandee 2019-02-22 12:49|| 2019-02-22 12:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Definitely diet and genes. Not to mention physical work, farmers, fishermen.

Side note. I know a hay wagon load of Norwegian farmers in Wisconsin that live well into their 90's

Posted by Woodrow 2019-02-22 18:01|| 2019-02-22 18:01|| Front Page Top

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