How to Live to Be 100

Throughout the world, there are communities where an impressive percentage of its inhabitants live to a robust 100 years and beyond. Five longevity “hot spots” include:

1. Okinawa, Japan. On this island south of Japan, people have the longest disability-free life expectancy in the world and the highest percentage of centenarians. Researchers describe elderly Okinawans as having young, clean arteries and low cholesterol. They have 80% fewer heart attacks and 80% less breast cancer and prostate cancer than Americans.
2. Symi, Greek. This remote Greek island just off the coast of Turkey has more centenarians, proportionately, than anywhere else in Europe. If you’re only moderately lucky, you live to be 85 on Symi.
3. Hunza, Pakistan. The Hunza valley in northeast Pakistan is reputed to be the inspiration of the original Shangri-La. Legend has it that Hunzakuts thought nothing of walking to the nearest town, 60 miles away. Due to the lack of any real record keeping, scientists are not sure of the precise ages of elderly people in Hunza, but they have documented that their rates of cancer, heart disease, and other degenerative diseases are remarkably low.
4. Bama, China. Bama, located in southwest China, is the home of many a sprightly centenarian. The county (pop. 238,000) has more than 74 centenarians and 237 residents who have reached their 90s. That's one of the highest per-capita concentrations of old-timers in the world, according to Dr. Chen Jinchao, a surgeon who for the past 10 years has run the Guangxi Bama Long Life Research Institute.
5. Campodimele, Italy. A hilltop village south of Rome, Campodimele’s high number of ultra-centenarians has earned it the title in Europe of "Village of Longevity.” Rarely do the people of Campodimele die before 85.

Each of these five communities has its own distinct culture-based diet. The people of Okinawa, for example, enjoy foods like goya (a vegetable) and fresh caught fish, while the people of Hunza, Pakistan eat a lot of apricots, beans, and chapattis, made from ground whole-wheat flour.

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