Sophia
01-08-2010, 04:43 PM
This is prompted by the discussion in the Best Countries to Live In (http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=167632) thread.
How to live to be 100 + is a talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100.html) by Dan Buettner on the TED site. It is just under 20 minutes long. In summary, he has studied the populations of areas around the world that have a large relative population of people aged over 100 and in good health to see if there are any common lifestyle factors between them. The locations of these populations include California, Sardinia and Okinawa.
Among the factors he identified are low-level physical activity throughout the day (e.g. regularly getting up from and down into a cross-legged seated position on the carpet), a diet that includes lots of vegetables, and being part of a close-knit group and the sense of belonging that brings. There were interesting comments about retirement, too.
For me, it was the idea of not being socially isolated that felt most relevant to my life.
How to live to be 100 + is a talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100.html) by Dan Buettner on the TED site. It is just under 20 minutes long. In summary, he has studied the populations of areas around the world that have a large relative population of people aged over 100 and in good health to see if there are any common lifestyle factors between them. The locations of these populations include California, Sardinia and Okinawa.
Among the factors he identified are low-level physical activity throughout the day (e.g. regularly getting up from and down into a cross-legged seated position on the carpet), a diet that includes lots of vegetables, and being part of a close-knit group and the sense of belonging that brings. There were interesting comments about retirement, too.
For me, it was the idea of not being socially isolated that felt most relevant to my life.