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Okinawa Way

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This book is an excellent account of the 25 year study of 400 centenarians in Okinawa, Japan. The secrets of longevity are:
1. fruits and vegetables, little meat
2. canola oil, low chesterol, the ususal
3. exercise, eat small portion, 6 meals per day
4. relaxed life style, close to your family, friends, and community
5. low stress, good weather, swimming
6. always place health over wealth
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I visited Dr. Makoto Suzuki in his office 2005. He was 73, but looked 53. He got three female assistants. I have no doubt he practised what he preached. I enjoyed his sage words.

Recent study at Harvard, showed that Korean females in Bergen County, New Jersey averaged 91 and going strong. We all have hopes.

I would recommend this book to everyone. The book will be better if it was less on the recipe and more on the comparisons between Japanese life style, on mainland vs Okinawa.

This book is a good volume for information about what contributes to the Okinawa's astonishing longevity. Not sure if it was worth buying - I think it includes too many details about too many studies...much too much detail for the average reader. I don't really care so much about who did what study when and what exact data they found. I prefer to get the main essence without so much detail. It made it a bit thick and boring.

A much better book, in my opinion, on longevity, is Sally Beare's "50 Secrets of the World's Longest Living People." It includes Okinawa, but also includes 4 other cultures that have incredible longevity, distills the main ideas, and breaks it up into 50 easy to read chapters, each one explaining in casual layman's terms, one of the "Secrets" that all 5 of those long-living cultures share in common.