Imagine If One Person In Every 1500 People Would Live For 100 Years!
Well, You Don't Have To Imagine Because It's No More In The Realms Of Imagination. This Is Actually True In Okinawa, Japan. As It Turns Out, One Person In Every 1450 Japanese People Is Aged More Than 100 In There. And, To Add To The Wonder, More Than 88% Of The Population Of Centenarians Is Women! The Place Okinawa That Happens To Be A Japanese Archipelago Is Considered Among The World's Five Blue Zones. Now, What Does That Mean? Simply That In These Zones, There Is A High Concentration Of Centenarians.
There Is A Secret To Such Happenings. Dr Bradley Willcox, One Of The Prominent Members Of The Revered Okinawa Centenarian Study Research Team, Shares That Indeed There Is A Secret To Living A Longer And Healthier Life.
Interestingly, There Is A Funny Saying On The Sub-Tropical Japanese Islands Of Okinawa That Goes Like This: Living Far Away From Family To Not Run Into Them Every Day But Close Enough To Bring Them A Hot Bowl F Soup— On Foot. Imagine, If We Had That Saying Warning Us, We Could Have Avoided A Lot Of Trouble During The Past Two Years Of The Pandemic, Only If We Lived Within Walking Distance To Our Family. We Wouldn't Need To Depend Upon Our Daily Zoom Calls. Rather, We Could Have Enjoyed Their Company While Also Saving Ourselves From The Loss Of Social Connection That Each Of Us Has Been Suffering For The Past Two Years. It Would Have Done Wonders To Our Mental Health, Which Was Especially Challenged During The Period Of Social Isolation.
Interestingly, Socialization Also Happens To Be One Of The Many Reasons For Many Okinawans To Stay Healthy Until After They Are 100 Or Even Older. Dr Willcox, With His Anthropologist Twin Brother, Craig, Of Okinawa International University, Has Joined Hands In Studying The Centenarians On These Particular Islands Who Have Been The Fame Of This Place For More Than 20 Years.
According To The New Centenarian Record, The Population Of Japan’s Centenarian Has Already Hit Its Record High, Reaching 86,510, As Per The Record Of Its Home Ministry. And That Brings Us To This Astonishing Facto That At Least There Is One Japanese Centenarian In Every 1,450 People Residing In Okinawa. Isn’t That Something?
