Submitted 1 year ago by meme@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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How do Japanese live this long?
One theory I saw recently which no one has yet discussed is their higher average step count. Walking is good for you.
If it’s about diet, then what’s so special? African countries have simple and natural diet too, why doesn’t that work?
Quality of life in Japan vs an African country isn’t comparable. It’s a combination of a healthier diet and higher standard of living. Also, it isn’t unlikely that some of those people’s ages aren’t accurate.
Historically, a lot of walking and eating home-cooked meals that were high in veggies and fermented foods and probably eating lots of seafood and seaweed with other proteins being less frequent.
Milk wasn't even a part of school lunches until after the war, so people still kicking from the pre-war times mostly grew up without it.
I suspect, though, that life expediencies here are going to drop. Lots of fried food and such these days and I see more and more obese people.
Hentai and Tentacle porn is the fountain of youth.
I’m well on my way to becoming immortal.
114 yr old from Houston said clean eating, minimize stress and companionship.
Well, I’m fucked.
I had some relatives that lied about their birth date making them seem older so that they could join the arm forces (strange, if things like that were possible now it would be younger to escape them). Maybe some of these people at 14 suddenly became 18 year Olds to fight in WW2 or the Russian-Japan war before that.
So the 112 year old is instead a youthful 108?
We have folks in the US that also lied about their age. They’re almost all dead now. So… Yeah.
There’s a bunch of books theorizing on this topic.
Theres even a site about these “Blue Zones”.
Unfortunately we don’t have enough data. Maybe around the 2300, we can have a real answer. But nothing in our lifetimes.
the composite last names of both the italians is typical of ancient, rich and maybe noble families, so at least for them it might be money.
Not dying.
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Haha first thing i saw!
Green tea
They’re probably mostly dead and someone is still collecting their checks.
“I’m not dead yet!” “He says he’s not dead” “Well, he’s mostly dead.”
Number 1 and Number 12 for sure have a feud.
Pretty sure it was revealed that it was child’s blood from abortions remember?
Menopause. It shuts down a lot of the growth hormone crap involved in oncogenesis.
The further west you go on the globe, the diet gets worse, people walk much less, the work and family cultures are worse, people argue over everything, and people’s daily life is plagued by stress for no apparent reason other than corporate greed
I suppose the older Japanese folks didn’t work in the current climate of working yourself literally to death on the job. I can’t believe how stressful work life sounds for some in Japan.
Generally to grow old: be content! You don’t need heaps of money, don’t fill a hole in yourself, that’s unfillable, live reasonable (!) healthy, do things in reasonable doses, learn your whole life and in particular: don’t try to get old. It’s not the length of the way, it’s what you experience during your journey.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 year ago
They don’t eat McDonald’s for every meal and argue for every conversation.