A typical Bulgarian
centenarian eats yogurt three times a day, «sometimes with bread crumbs.»
Not exact matches
After analyzing more than 150 dietary studies conducted in Blue Zones over the past century, we came up with a global average of what
centenarians really
eat.
This appears to be the average amount that Blue Zones
centenarians are
eating.
«Honey is one of the foods
eaten in the blue zones,» he says, referencing regions of the world unusually dense with
centenarians.
The people of Hunza and Kashmir consume whole fermented goat milk products; inhabitants of Vilcabamba consume raw cows milk which they usually separate into cream cheese and whey; and the
centenarians of the Caucasus Mountains
eat whole milk yogurt and other dairy products.
14 Lard was traditionally used in cooking on the island and although it may not be used as much today, the Okinawan
centenarians were using lard most of their lives, lives that began long before the USDA decided to tell us all to
eat canola oil.
Few supercentenarians
eat high - carb diets, so carbs may indeed reduce maximum lifespan, though
eating a high - carb diet certainly doesn't prevent people from becoming
centenarians.
All one can say is that Kitavans, with their diet of far less junk food, higher (cellulose) vegetables, high MCTs, lower protein, that may help result in short and lean stature likely secondary to lower IGF - 1and mTOR (known longevity factors in animals), with their less stressed lifestyle gives them low rates of heart disease and diabetes but with only an average lifespan with few
centenarians, that may likely be despite
eating starches than because of it.
I recall one Okinawan
centenarian on television stating that they
ate many kilograms of vegetables each day, simply because there was nothing else.
A Russian study of the inhabitants of the province of Georgia, where many live to 100 years and a few to age 150, revealed that many of these
centenarians were beekeepers who often
ate raw, unprocessed honey with all its «impurities,» that is, with the pollen.
They did not
eat these sweet potatoes raw and they had the most
centenarians per capita.
Longo's research culling epidemiological studies, as well as
centenarian studies and his own research with various populations, points to not just the «self -
eating» phenomenon of autophagy burning out aberrant cells first (not muscle mass, my friends, not unless that muscle needed replacing)--