Expert Insights: The Secret of Longevity Lies in The Okinawa Diet

Okinawa, a beautiful Island in Japan, boasts the longest documented lifespan of any area in the civilized world. Okinawan’s have remarkably clean arteries and low cholesterol. Heart disease, breast cancer and prostate cancer are rare. This can be attributed to the Okinawans mostly plant based diet that includes fish and soy foods with a variety of vegetables and a moderate amounts of good fats. If you haven't yet heard about "The Okinawan Diet" you will. Keep reading to discover secrets to a long life . . .

Okinawan Elixir

The people of Okinawa live longer and healthier lives than people anywhere else in the world. Large numbers of Okinawans have remained strong and active into their seventies, eighties, nineties and even as centenarians. They have amazingly low occurrences of heart disease, cancer and strokes. The phenomenon has been studied for the last 25 years in the Okinawan Centenarian study and this year the results were summarized and published in English for the first time. The study’s findings give an insight into why the Okinawans live so long and possible reasons why they seem to suffer so much less than other peoples from the common diseases of aging.

It is possible that the Okinawan people have a natural genetic predisposition to be more resistant to certain diseases but the study shows that more important than the genetics of a person is the environment in which they are in. It’s not the genes that you’ve got that matter it’s what you do with them.

The traditional diet...