The people in short-lived villages were eating a lot of white rice without vegetables and seaweed, what about the people in long-lived villages? They weren’t eating white rice. Then what were they eating instead?
What were the people in short-lived villages eating, according to Dr. Shoji Kondo the author of Nihon No Chojumura Tanmeimura, Long-Lived Villages and Short-Lived Villages in Japan, who spent 36 years traveling around the island, between 1935 and 1971, visiting 990 villages and towns to investigate the diets of each place?
Dr. Shoji Kondo, the author of Nihon No Chojumura Tanmeimura, Long-Lived Villages and Short-Lived Villages in Japan, spent 36 years traveling around the island, between 1935 and 1971, visiting 990 villages and towns to investigate the diets of each place. He discovered that there were villages where many residents lived long and villages where many residents didn’t live long. He found out that there was a distinct difference between the diets of long-lived villages and short-lived villages.
While it isn’t entirely false, many Japanese people feel a little puzzled by the fact that only Okinawa is spotlighted as the land of longevity. There are other blue zones in Japan. Okinawa isn’t ranked high in the national prefectural life expectancy ranking.
The Biodynamic Food&Cookbook and Wendy E. Cook. Wendy studied macrobiotic cooking before practicing biodynamic cooking.
It is based on a holistic understanding of health and the environment, and it goes well with the Ikigai Diet.
How to Lead a Long and Healthy Life Starting in Your 50s: Satoyama Cycling. Cycling, in general, is a good exercise since you can incorporate it in your daily life. You can cycle to commute, you can cycle to go shopping. It is a good example of designing your lifestyle where you move a lot naturally. Try to cycle as much as possible when you go somewhere. It is very common in countries like Netherlands and Demark to cycle for commuting, and that is one of the elements to put them high in the happiness rankings.
Doing Ima Iwai, appreciating and celebrating the present moment at a power spot on the Summer solstice, I encountered a god of longevity.
How to Lead a Long and Healthy Life Starting in Your 50s: Exercise. Moving naturally in your daily life is a common element in Blue Zones. Gardening and walking are some of the daily natural movements. Therefore by working in your garden and going Satoyama walking, you can support your wellbeing.
Diet is one of the most important factors for our health and longevity, or we can even say it is the most significant element, can’t we? According to Dr. Shouji Kondo, who conducted research on longevity after traveling to 990 towns and villages throughout Japan to see which areas have high life expectancies and which areas don’t, diet is the most influential factor to determine our longevity.
How to lead a long and healthy life starting in your 50s. Now how can you improve your lifestyle to lead a healthy long life? What areas do you need to change? Is it your diet, exercises, or your mindset? That is what I am going to talk about today, so stick around.
