How do Okinawans live longer than anyone else? | euronews 🇬🇧 

Who is here after reading Ikigai and is wanting to know more about Okinawa's culture?? 😊

What they have that's lacking in the west isn't just the diet; it's sense of community, and a purpose.

I grew up there. Grains of sand the shape of stars, caved lagoons to swim in with blue damsel fish, island hopping, orange pink sunsets, most delicious food in the world, and the gentlest, kindest people.

natural diet and an active life and small pleasures with friends is the secret to longetivity... Do not worry and move on. Work on what you love. ☺

Three secrets for longevity. ORGANIC FOODS, STRESS-FREE, and ACTIVE lifestyle.

I cam after reading IKIGAI. Such a masterpiece and I am grateful to know more about okinawa💜

I want to go there once in my life. God bless you all centenarians

Great place, so nice to know about their way of living, keeping busy, preserving culture and seasonal food habits. Meeting people and sharing keeps them energetic

I love that the food is so creative too and the environment is so beautiful. Great place to live compared to a condominium with no garden and junk food.

spent two years of my childhood there. Snorkeled all day in the summertime. Had few friends there. At 12 years old I would ride the buses the different parts of the island. Just exploring parts of the jungle. I was lucky I was never snake bit. By a Habu snake. The 70s was the best years of my life. Vietnam was still going full blast.

1:34 this breakfast is insanely rich. There are massive houses and all kinds of fancy cars in my neighborhood, but no you will never find a breakfast around here as rich as this. Unless you have a personal chef cook for you...

Bonds between people are really important!!

So much warmth radiated from those elders. Makes me realize how often cold occidental society really Is and how stressful It Is living In cities.

My family is from here. Fun fact: the bitter fruit they're talking about is pronounced SI-QWA-SA

You forgot to name: not consuming fast food, soda, donuts, pork, sugar, aspartame, gluten, milk and many more that the rest of the world do. Hahahaha

SHI-KWA-SA is the most delicious citrus in the world (imo) and you left out the Okinawan purple sweet potato which is different than the one from Moloka’i. The staple fish is Gurukun. When meat is eaten it is more often pork in the form of the Agu, a native breed descended from ancient Chinese trading with Okinawa. The bitter melon known as Karela in India, but called Goya in Okinawa, is very popular during the summer hot season. There are many varieties of vegetables, including sea vegetable, eaten by Okinawans, but mostly the people stay very active and do not care to slow down.

Any ikgai reader?

My dream place to live in Okinawa 🤗😍 very safe very clean beautiful beaches and very very peaceful

I'm from Okinawa and grow up here but I didn't know "ikigai" is known all over the world. it's amazing!!!

Would love to visit Okinawa someday. 💕

It’s not diet, it’s likely the content of what’s grown there and they no stress culture.

The secret to longevity is having a diet made of fresh fruits and vegetables, having a good attitude, not to worry, engaging in an interesting activity like weaving and associating with others.

People in Okinawa are forbearing and forgiving. That is the secret of Ryukyu, the secret of our island peoples.

2:41 that fruit defo has lots of antioxidants in it like dark chocolate and red wine

soooo wholesome to watch 😍😍

It’s how amazing when you realize food is not only for survival it’s for long survival.

I am Okinawan living in Singapore for 27 years I think secret is relaxing life style & food and I think I can not live such a long , cos of stress life here ....

EVEN THE SNAKES EAT VEGETABLES IN THIS COUNTRY LOVE IT

Here while reading ikigai ❤️

I lived in Ogimi for a few years. Some familiar faces in the video. Beautiful place full of wonderful people. The world needs to discover shikuwasa!

I'm from Okinawa. However, it is said that our younger generation has westernized eating habits. We also started to eat food from many countries. Therefore, it seems that the life span of Okinawans who can live in good health is getting shorter. But my grandmother is over 90 years old. My grandfather is almost 100 years old. My dead grandfather and grandmother passed away at the age of 70 and over.

Master weaver, wherever you are, you're smile remains here on 🌎. Aroha, from New Zealand.

And the purple sweet potato. No high fat/high carb processed junk food, no high crime rates, no drug gangs, crime or culture.

People do not die of motor vehicle accident there.

Yes they consume alot of antioxidant rich foods, fast, move alot and eat little but even if we did the same thing we could live longer some of us but not as long as them. The reason is due to their soils. Their soils are very nutritionally dense and contain trace minerals that's rarely in our 'modern' treated soils

I wanna visit Japan 🇯🇵 so bad, back when I was like 13 I used to watch an anime called "Inazuma Eleven" and one of the side characters was a surfer from Okinawa. They made it look like the best place ever back then, and it certainly does. This whole vibe kind of reminds me of my region. Kind regards from the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

My Okinawan grandparents made it to 95. I don’t remember the bitter citrus but one can NOT forget that icky green goya…NOT a fan and neither were my grandparents. We had lots of rice, fruits, danced, walked, played tennis with my Grandfather’s ‘sports club’, after tennis, it was hot green tea, some type of cookies the ladies brought and socializing. LOTS of festivals to attend. Okinawan culture and language are different than Japanese. The Okinawans are indigenous to this island which was taken over by the Japanese in the late 1870s. Okinawans sway gently and easily for a very long time just like palm trees….one reason they live so very long is their resiliency to whatever adversity thrown their way. The largest civilian casualty was Okinawans during WW2. My grandparents hid in caves with my mother and uncles while the Americans and Japanese waged war upon this tiny island. The western diet has caused a tremendous amount of obesity, acne, and health problems for this tiny island which is overwhelmingly still U.S. military. Some of the land has been returned to the original owners. Things are becoming more Okinawan again instead of American military.

Nagano has been the no.1 longevity in Japan since around 2013, 2014

I want to visit Okinawa one day

Just put subtitles. Don’t translate over their speech!

Okinawan diet is rich in pork meat and fish, similar to Hong Kong. This video is intentionally biased and it is not showing the real Okinawans diet and popular national dishes. Just visit this beautiful place and get real picture of life here.

A balanced life is important 🌻

Gosh now a days thiers a lot of processes foods and super sweet that's why I hate to go out and eat mostly I make my own foods wow healthy people and nice place

I teared up at the end of the video when I saw those three old women..they seemed so cute, friendly and happy!!

Fruits 🍋 and vegetables 🥒 hard work 👨‍🌾 loving your neighbor ❤️ no stress 😀 just the way the Lord intended it.

They have a lot less stress than Americans who are ridiculously stressed out and eat unhealthy and don’t exercise.

Natural Diet, Active Life & Leisure Time... secret of Longevity

The secret is diet genetics and enviroment.

'I forget my age when I work' I wish one day I could say that

im more amazed that none of them have dementia

The food they eating is health but when fried it’s deadly

Wow awesome info, what’s this sakura long life grass. Anyone know?

Thanks to ikigai Book who brought me here.☺️

Those plants and fruits are present in the Philippines

I always thought Japanese people were super serious but they seem pretty chill in Okinawa

A breath of fresh air!

How can anyone settle here permanently post retirement?

2:48 - the secret to a long life? Fruit, and cannibalism...

They live in fresh air, no smoking, drinking sodas,no fast food. They not hateful but loveable. Their 💕 are purity and humbled. Read Mark 7: 20 to 23. Jesus speak about this. Praises GOD!

Don't all fruits and vegetables have anti inflammatory properties? 🤭

I wonder if Okinawans And Ainus had any sort of battles with another before the Yayois or and Yamatos showed up

Eat healthy raw vegetarian food and salad ...avoid antibiotics medecine that's the simple funda

plumeria66 1 year ago (edited) I grew up there. Grains of sand the shape of stars, caved lagoons to swim in with blue damsel fish, island hopping, orange pink sunsets, most delicious food in the world, and the gentlest, kindest people.

I love the company of old people 🥰

Okinawa inhabitants are natural food lovers

Non to little animal products, a lot of fruits and vegetables. No fast food or other convinience food. Active life and little stress…. This are the secret of the blue zones.

The concept of ikigai is extra powerful....

Bible says honor your parents and your days will be long on this earth ...also get healthy ...you always see older Asians working out ..walking ,stretching etc

These women seem quiet similar to Hunza Valley’s Pakistani elderly women . The secret yes ! seem to be the sisterly bond, faith, family, food with friendliness & activities which give them contentment , peace & a creative purpose to live. Life span however is ordained by God/ The Creator of Mankind . It depends though on us, how to live to the destined age … by the above mentioned goodness or the opposite of: (quality & substance) 👍🏻🌹💫

Seasonal vegetables fresh, lemon Chiquita

I wanna become citizen of such country God bless me

We eat foods that is deemed unhealthy to foreigners and live in a society that is laid back and almost stress free. My grandparents are 95 and still genki. Jiichan still does his farming and bachan still does her thing.

Peace to the ainu, luchu, and all the other indigenous peoples

The food the old women are eating, Is more than what my grandmother could eat and she is 70+ at the moment. These people are built greatly!

I live here and can say in general life is simpler in that people overall are very friendly and you don't have to go too far to get your basic needs. The only issue they have now is the modern world has caught up with many of the youth. They eat alot of fried foods and their obesity rate is the highest in Japan. The old Okinawan diet was mainly sweet potatoes and anything they could find in reality. My Okinawan in laws told me the old diet was the 'no food' one back in the '50s.

After reading a book called Ikigai led me to here with tremendous enthusiasm to attain the knowledge of such an incredibly splendid culture of Okinawa.

After Reading ❤Ikigai. From India ❤

Japnese are grear❤️ love from india

Seems wonderful

I'm an Indian I want to go Japan .. love Japan people..☺️

people that don't concern themselves with material wealth have money, those that don't worry about living the longest end up doing just so!

1. Sleep 2. Exercise (they always move, they don't retire) 3. Diet (Moderate, Variety, Balanced) - green tea, natto, miso soup, tofu, etc. 4. Ikigai

Humans like cold weather, but plants like warm tropical weather. Okinawa is a place where humans arent baked alive like India, but where plants can thrive in a tropical climate. And many plants to eat means long life.

2:28 he doesnt look a day over 95

Amazing island, amazing people

I came here after reading Ikigayi.. What an inspiring book

If you search for Japanese life expectancy by prefecture you will find that Okinawa is just BELOW average life expectancy for the country. So about half the prefectures can be expected to live longer. And if you look at life expectancy for Asian Americans is is about 3 years longer than Japan. Not saying the U.S. is healthier by any means, just that there is something messed up with the "Blue Zone" statistics.

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There is so much spirituality in Okinawa and China 🇨🇳

please, someone do script for this video. I'll be very grateful 🥰

A very insightful report about health and nutrition. So important to eat healthily, keep active, lead a purposeful life, have good company and look after your well being at any age. 🙏🙏

I'm sorry, I may be old but, this was society!

Love japan

Im 32 and I already feel like ive seen everything, heard everything, experienced everything, and am ready to die. I cant imagine living 70 more years beyond today must be like...

Vegan is the way

They seem nice

The good news: living to 100. The bad news: having to eat vegetables and live on Okinawa.

I love Okinawa I miss my mama san Kiko Nakada in kin ville and masami San and my beautiful friend julie san

No gmo no pesticides, movement low stress life.

Tell me about present condition last level of Myanmar & Bangladesh?