A documentary about the health and longevity of Okinawa - and a warning of the health dangers posed by modern 'American lifestyles'. VISIT: www.okinawanway.blogspot.com for information on attaining the secret to Okinawan Longevity
I live in Okinawa, and see old men surfing, riding their bikes and more active and daring than me! I really hope to learn to change my ways of eating and living while I'm here.
I Love this culture! Where the elderly are healthy, happy and cherished. I love the elderly and believe they should have all the respect and honor - they deserve it!
Only 5% will probably read this comment There is a island where most of the world has forgotten about, a peaceful island where happy people live, this is the land of Okinawa Please spread this message because we need to spread Okinawan culture and this is the best way to do it Neeheedeebiru(Thankyou)
Bitch no one forced them to do shit. They chose on their own accord. Oooh the Americans this, the Americans that....shut the fuck up. We don't go around forcing people to adapt to our culture, they do that on their own.
The positive intention is always the best tool for living. People live so stressed and angry, all they tink is about desires and random things, they get controlled by the environment. Just chill, practice a non-ambitious life and things will naturally come, since it's on our nature to adapt. Meditation is the best way to reach a state of calmness and inner peace.
We eat a staple local dish on my island called pudding and souse, it's pig ear, tongue and/or feet boiled and soaked in lime juice scotch bonnet and grated cucumber with steamed sweet potato mixed with sugar, onion, herbs and scotch bonnet stuffed in cleaned pig intestines (pudding), we also have the Goya here it's called carella or bitter melon
I'm from Okinawa. I don't hate Americans.I like American culture and Okinawan culture.I hope the U.S.A. and Okinawa will get along better with each other in the future.🗽🏝 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 今の沖縄は沖縄らしさが薄れて来ています。。 これから私たち若者が琉球魂に火を付けて頑張らないといけないですね。 私が会ってきたアメリカの人はいい人ばかりでした。 私自身、沖縄の人も県外の人も、アメリカの人もそのほかの国の人もみんな好きです。 沖縄にはイチャリバチョーデー（一度会えばみんな兄弟）という言葉があります。 動画の中でおばぁがインタビューアーの人の頬をポンポンとしていたように、外人だからといった差別など論外なのです。 外国でアジア人だからという理由だけで差別されることもある事実を最近知って、ありえなさ過ぎて言葉が出ませんでした。 おじぃおばぁは戦争を体験しているけど、会いに行くと笑顔で迎え入れてくれるし、寛容な心で誰とでも優しく接してくれます。 小さい頃はそれが当たり前だと思っていましたが、大きくなってそれが出来ない人がいることを知りました。 私はいつもおじぃおばぁの精神に感動し、尊敬しています。 国籍関係なくみんなが仲良くなれることほど素晴らしいことはないと思います。 今の時代、それが簡単にいかないのが現状ですが、これからの未来、変わっていけたらいいですね。
I SO SO LOVE Goya Chamuru.....and before I left to come to AZ in 1984 Thank Goodness I was taught how to cook it in 5 different ways. I am SO appreciative!!!
It's not problem in fats. Our brain are fats. It's about processed fats, those that you got in processed foods and hydrogenated oils. Those fats can't be metabolised by your body.
Wonderful example of living life to its fullest and in community that appreciate rather than despised others or make a living out somebody else's misery. Would love to visit sometime. My grandparents didn't like going to hospitals either, and we need the elders to live even longer. Part of the problem now is money, power, and a distorted view of what makes life a joy to live.
I'm pretty sure those elders also appreciate the small things in life. And that is one way to be happy. Or as Warren Zevon put it: "Enjoy every sandwich."
At 11:52 the focus is on goya, but doesn't care to go on to mention that the most popular dish with goya in Okinawa is Goya Champuru, a stir fried dish with goya bitter melon, tofu, egg, and pork belly (or spam is used). The Japanese government believes that it is collagen in pork that accounts for Okinawan longevity. The veggie folks want to paint over these facts.
It's really common knowledge, but there's so much disinformation relating to it today. I hope you can learn to read between the lines out here. As far back as within the history of newspapers at least, the Japanese have nicknamed Okinawans "Pork Eaters". They eat every part of the Pig and pork lard is a common cooking oil in Okinawa. During WWII, the Okinawans showed the U.S. Military kindnesses and in return we dropped one of their top prized foods to them from helicopters (SPAM, pork in a can). By the 1990's the powers that be distributed disinformation in magazine and newspapers articles, making out that Okinawans eat little if any meat.
America is a plague on any country. Food is key to health and fighting disease. Eating a primarily if not a full plant based diet will do nothing but good for any person provided you learn about food combining to obtain the daily requirement of vitamins and minerals. I love that part of my family is from Okinawa.
I agree. You became plagued by American idea that "plant-based" shit is nutritious. Okinawans didn't eat plants. They ate large amounts of fish and fatty pork... until Americans invaded and destroyed all the pigs and introduced sweet potatoes. You are a disgrace to your ancestors.
@cloudy0399 You're welcome for the upload thank you for watching. Actually this isn't my video I've mirrored it here in case the original gets taken down. The Ryukyu culture is a wonderful expression of life. The karate teacher mentioned, who took on a 30yr old boxer when he was 93, is Uehara Seikichi a contemporary of my teacher in Okinawa. I teach Seido Ryu which combines a series of longevity exercises for health with martial arts - similar to Tai Chi but more fluid and free form.
The colder the climate, the more animal foods and fat in the diet: The Okinawans seem to live in a sub tropical or tropical climate. Look at the foods they grow. So, eating more veggies makes sense - for them. Even so, they are an island people, eating LOTS of fish and high cholesterol seafood. And they were fine. Eskimos live in extreme cold. They used to eat copious amounts of fat and meat previously. And they were fine. They were healthy and happy with little dental disease, heart disease and cancer. (I mean they ate supposedly unhealthy foods like straight blubber that they fermented. Then, they were also corrupted with western foods. Actually they began eating more grains and sugar in the form of jams pastries, bread, grains, fruit imported from southern climates. They ate less cholesterol and saturated fats! AND....they had devasting health effects.
When I listen to the Okinawan Rhythm in their music, there's an unbridled joy and carefree feeling. There's always a hop and syncopation. Maybe long life depends on being joyful, non-judgmental and carefree. Can't be happy on junk food which is a craving enslavement, not carefree joy. Try growing your own food, it will make you real happy. There's a symbiosis we share with plants and animals. Maybe that's it.
If you go to a supermarket in Okinawa today you see more fried foods than in the American south now. The younger generation--I'm referring to those below 50--have little connection to their older diet. Their culture still exists and is great but their original food has gone away except for a few specialty restaurants.
In Vilcabamba, Loja Province , Ecuador, South America .A gifted valley in the Andes full of fresh waters, medicine herbs. A valley well know because people of its elderly people that age over 100. My grandmother that is over 90 still milking cow and walking long distances She looks 60
Exactly. Which is it what angers me about the US speaking about health. The target is always on diet and nutrition as if there's not a lot more to living a healthy life. The way our society functions and places importance, the stress will take you out before the diet.
Is the lady at 6:03 Kama Chinen (1895-2010), once world's oldest verified person and oldest person ever from Okinawa?? Looks like it might be her, but they did not mention anything.
I think I just figured this out. Every punch or slap per says removes toxins out of muscles. I saw a video of a quiropractor in Australia who Beats patients with stick until area becomes purple thus removing toxins and people be able to move or be more active.
Live in America. I'm determine to eat healthier and make exercise a routine which a lifestyle change! It's scary because my grandparents didn't live long and I know that I can die young if I keep this horrible eating habits...We have genetic diabetes I had it at age 14 but it was gone when I started eating healthier. Now I face digestion problems so I know I need to change now..
Dr Brad Wilcox says the older okinawans have build somesort of resiliance against the hard things they´ve experienced. How does one gain that kind of resiliance? Any advice.
Well, they are partly 'cannibalistic'. It depends how pigs are feed and kept. Wild hogs are quite muscular. In chinese medicine pigs body parts are used as tonics for body. That's because human and pigs genetics are so similar. And as I said it's somehow 'cannibalistic' practise. But in the East they have different cultural standards than we have them in the West.
I asked in a video about Okinawa how the okinawans had developed their resiliance against the hardships in Life. Maybe they have simply accepted the hardships in life? And maybe it´s the same with the 7th day adventists and the people of Ikaria?
7 principles of health: 1. fresh air 2. clean water 3. exercise 4. plant whole-foods 5. non-toxic relationships 6. a passion to live for 7. sunshine i could talk about those for hours, but there is not enough room here.
As an American born here and well traveled its the year 2017 in Virginia. Our culture is self destructing With People consuming more illegal drugs to just get by it is terrible crime has risen so much my family and I are looking for the day when we can get out of here. I work For Walmart and finding help just to do simple things is becoming an issue. Moesha pempengco this county has fallen it is so sad.
Don't forget the complete lack of courtesy in most parts of America now. I live in Okinawa myself and when I go back I am appalled at how low the general public has fallen in my lifetime.
Was it me r the recent generation of Japanese are way taller than the previous? It seems to me short stature helps with longevity. It is like my grandma who is in here late 80's in bad health for about 40+ manage to out live a lot of here family. In here youth she was 5ft and shrank to 4'8''. It is rare to see old average height people that out live the average life expectancy by a noticeable amount.
i heard that taller people has higher risk of early death . this is probbly bcuz there are like more parts of the body needs attention / more fixing/ more work/maintenance to be done by the cells. (sorry for my english)
Yes, it's all about culture. But if you look into it, things are changing! Bullfighting is prohibited in Catalonia for example! It's not ironic at all! I am not from Spain and I am against bullfighting and cruelty to animals everywhere!
M'well they seem not to have wifi or any electrosmog as we have in our western culture. Nature looks to be surounding them and those "little farmers" probably don't use so much chemicals as we do in Europa, America or China Thx for the great upload..
Okinawan bull fighting is not as cruel as it sounds. The animals are highly valued and well looked after. It really is more like sumo wrestling but with two big bulls trying to push another into submission. In fields two bulls might challenge each other for the territory and without the owners to pull them apart more damage might be done by charging. These bulls don't charge but begin head to head. Its hugely different than Spain and Mexico.
I love sweet potatoes :) 2 lbs of veggies not so bad! Fish is a plus in my diet. I wonder what their cholesterol LDL levels are because mine are too high! Genetics for me I guess.
sweet potatoes, i remember my granny telling me she would forage for it in the jungles in Malaya while running away from the japanese during the invasion, its only the best war-food around
Funny he says they eat low fat, lots of fish are very fatty, and if they eat the pigs head to toe they would be eating a lot of lard. Seems more like they eat healthy animal fats and low vegetable oils.
I was there from 99-2001 and yes, the local nationals are this adorable. But you do get your drunk on sake, overzealous japanese guys that howl at the moon on gate 2 street from time to time, especially on the weekends. Kanpai!!! and Semper Fi!!!
@Lili BG goodness gracious be quiet! Learn a thing or two from these wisemen and women. Take a look at their life expectancy and ours. I'd rather much eat fish to live too 100 than go vegan and live to be 65 especially with this horrible life we have been accustomed to here in the west. Ignorance at its finest!
The modern 'American lifestyle' of extortion taxation violence and free stuff thru statism and the personality cults of politicians is a greater threat .. though perhaps correlated AND the latter being a causation
