On 2017-01-11 5:39 AM, Bruce wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:36:45 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 11:30:31 +1100, Bruce >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:26:30 -0800 (PST), dsi1 >
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Yes. The Inuit are well known for scoffing down tons of sweet potato.
>
> The Inuit may do other things that make them live long (do they live
> long?) Maybe it's not so much the sweet potato that helped the
> Okinokonaki as the fact that the sweet potato replaced a lot of grains
> such as rice.
>

The Inuit do not live longer than the rest of us. Their life expectancy
is about 10 years shorter than the average Canadian and that is a big
improvement because back in the 1940s it was 29 years.