The secret of a long and healthy life

 From the book “Hippocrates LifeForce: superior health and longevity” by Brian R. Clement, PhD, NMD, NNC. 

(He is also director of the Hippocrates Health Institute in Florida which is the number one Wellness spa in the world)

The secret of a long and healthy life:

"You have probably heard about the existence of certain islolated groups of people who live to one hundred years of age and beyond while remaining in good physical and mental health. One of these groups lives off the coast of Japan on the island of Okinawa and is among the most studied populations on the planet.

A saying carved into a stone bench marker in Okinawa reads, “At seventy you are but a child, at eighty you are merely a youth, and at ninety, if the ancestors invite you into heaven, ask them to wait until you are one hundred, and then you might consider it.” That proverb reveals an attitude about living that helps to explain why the residents of Okinawa experience the longest disability-free life expectancy in the world.

Studies of the Okinawan diet reveal an emphasis on the consumption of dark green vegetables, sweet potatoes, bean sprouts, seaweed, onions and green peppers.  By contrast, meat, poultry, and dairy account for just 3 percent of their overall food consumption. With this diet fully ingrained into their lifestyle and culture, the rate of people living to one hundred years of age is six times higher than in the United States and other Western countries.

If you think the Okinawans may have a genetic predisposition toward longer lives, you would be wrong. When Okinawans leave the island and adopt the meat-and-dairy eating habits of other countries, they quickly fall prey to the same health problems that afflict the rest of the world’s populations.

Harvard Medical School geriatrician Bradley J. Willcox, who spent a decade studying the food habits and lifestyle of Okinawa residents, cites four factors that account for their longevity: a low-calorie, plant based diet, regular exercise, a strong spiritual tradition, and a positive outlook on life...

Another intensively studied group of people are members of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in California, who adhere to a mostly vegetarian diet. A 2001 study in the Archives of Internal Medicine evaluated the health and diets of thirty-four thousand members of the church and found that those who ate the least amount of meat lived nearly ten years longer than those who regularly consumed animal products. Their incidence of disease in all categories was also significantly lower than meat eaters.

These finding have received broad support from other dietary studies for at least four decades. Two studies appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1961 and 1966, for instance, observed that people who do not eat meat live longer and suffer fewer chronic health disorders than meat eaters.”

(The book mentions a lot of things and also goes on to stress the importance of drinking pure healthy water and raw food. “All of our physical and mental functioning operates on and through electrical frequency. To extend our lives, we must create a continuous wave of positive electrical activity. This means we need a constant infusion of the essence of life-force that comes from organic living food.”)

If you want help going plant-based or just eating more healthy meals, check out the Forksoverknives.com website.