Want to live a long life? Try the traditional Okinawa diet, which helped islanders live to 100

The traditional Okinawa diet helped people living on the Japanese island to live to age 100 and beyond. Here's how to eat as the Japanese centenarians from Okinawa did.

A traditional Okinawa stir-fry dish, chanpurū, made with tofu and some kind of vegetable, meat, or fish. Source: iStockphoto/Getty Images

The Japanese diet is famed the world-over for promising those who follow it a long life. That’s because according to the United Nations, the Japanese population includes the largest number of people aged 100 and over in the world.

But if you drill down into the Japanese story of a little further, you’ll see that part of Japan’s longevity fame actually derived from Okinawa: the destination that used to have the largest proportion of centenarians in Japan, before traditional dietary habits changed. 

 

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