most recent 30 from http://paleohacks.com 2013-05-25T00:29:11Z http://paleohacks.com/feeds/user/357 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://paleohacks.com/questions/1514/okinawa-diet-healthiest-oldest-people-on-the-planet Dexter Morgan Hunter-Gatherer 2010-03-07T17:48:36Z 2012-07-26T09:38:27Z

<p>from wiki: People from the islands of Ryūkyū (of which Okinawa is the largest) are reported to have the longest life expectancy in the world. This has in part been attributed to the local diet, but also to other variables such as genetic factors, lifestyle, and environmental factors.</p> <p>Generally, the traditional diet of the islanders is 20% lower in calories than the Japanese average and contains 300% of the green/yellow vegetables (particularly heavy on sweet potatoes). The Okinawan diet is low in fat and has only 25% of the sugar and 75% of the grains of the average Japanese dietary intake. The traditional diet also includes a relatively small amount of fish (less than half a serving per day) and somewhat more in the way of soy and other legumes (6% of total caloric intake). With exception of pork, almost no meat is consumed; virtually no eggs or dairy products are consumed either. Okinawans include pork in their diets. However, the fat content of the pork is eliminated; prior to the preparation of the pork, the fat is boiled off.</p> <p>An Okinawan reaching 110 years of age has typically had a diet consistently averaging no more than one calorie per gram and has a BMI of 20.4.</p> <p>Considering the genetic differences to Europeans or Americans what else is there to make of this especially in contrast to the paleolithic diet/lifestyle?</p>