As we farewell the worlds oldest person, Yone Minagawa, a Japanese woman aged 114, it reminds us that longevity is not about doing something super human. Its purely about living a healthy lifestyle that allows our bodies to function efficiently.
Minagawa lived a simple, but not stress-free life, attributing her advanced age on “eating well and getting a good night’s sleep”. In other words, nourish the body, and give it sufficient time to heal and renew itself each day.
Her successor as the new ‘world’s oldest person’ is American woman, Edna Parker, who lives in the midwestern state of Indiana, also 114, having been born on April 20, 1893.
In spite of longevity gurus claiming that the only way to longevity is through fasting, Minagawa ate three meals a day even late in her life, and indulged in a passion for a Japanese confection made of red bean paste. When asked as to her hobbies, she responded that her “hobby is sleeping,” Minagawa also loved music.
Japanese women are the world’s oldest living people, in what experts attribute to a traditionally healthy diet and high standard of medical care.
Their life expectancy was a record 85.81 years in 2006, according to the government.
Nicola
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Interesting to see what affect western diets will have on this culture