On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:40:31 -0800 (PST), dsi1 >
wrote:

>On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 2:30:35 PM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:26:30 -0800 (PST), dsi1 <dsi1yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 12:43:01 PM UTC-10, Nancy2 wrote:
>> >> Long lives among indigenous people can many times be attributed to the extreme physicality required of
>> >> those traditional lifestyles.
>> >>
>> >> N.
>> >
>> >Those old timers were mostly farmers and laborers. They had a hard life. Life is easier for the Okinawans these days. OTOH, the easy life tends to lead to shorter lifespans. This seems like a mighty fine trade to me, mighty fine.
>>
>> There you go. You say they lived long because they had hard lives.
>> Lucretia thinks it's because of the fat (that they actually ate little
>> off in those days). I'm guessing it's because of low fat and sweet
>> potato. We can all have our own party thanks to these people.
>
>Those guy were eating pig meat for quite a while. After all, they were a country of pig farmers. After the war, they had a shortage of pigs. People in Hawaii raised money to buy some pigs for the Okinawans. Once that news got around, people all over the world started sending pigs to Okinawa. It's a rather interesting story.

They didn't eat a lot of fat when they had those long lives. As they
increased their fat intake, their life expectancy decreased. They now
have shorter life expectancy than the Japanese.

"The traditional Okinawan diet as described above was widely practiced
on the islands until about the 1960s. Since then, dietary practices
have been shifting towards Western and Japanese patterns, with fat
intake rising from about 6% to 27% of total caloric intake and the
sweet potato being supplanted with rice and bread.[9] This shifting
trend has also coincided with a decrease in longevity, where Okinawans
now have a lower life expectancy than the Japanese average."
(Wiki)