How do Japanese live this long?

  • If it’s being close to nature, then many countries have beautiful isolated area from modern life.
  • If it’s about diet, then what’s so special? African countries have simple and natural diet too, why doesn’t that work?
  • edric@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • Sagrotan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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    1 year ago

    If you want a chaotic answer to this, Yes Theory has made 2 episodes specifically on a region in Japan and Italy where people get really old.

    Spoiler: their conclusion was happiness and a little bit of carelessness, but the video included a lot of different aspects.

    • hardypart@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Japan has a pretty high suicide rate and they dedicate most of their life to work as far as I know. Doesn’t sound too happy to me.