I want to live to 100. Lots of people do it! Like the
Okinawans and even people in the United States.
Evercare, an agency that places nurse practitioners with its elderly members,
polled 100 U.S. centenarians about making it to 100.
WebMD reports:
Here are their top 10 tips for healthy aging - along with the percentage of how many said the tip is "very important" (they could call more than one tip "very important"):
- Stay close to your family and friends: 90%
- Keep your mind active: 89%
- Laugh and have a sense of humor: 88%
- Stay in touch with your spirituality: 84%
- Continue looking forward to each new day: 83%
- Keep moving and exercising: 82%
- Maintain a sense of independence: 81%
- Eat right: 80%
- Keep up with news and current events: 63%
- Keep making new friends: 63%
"If I could leave any message, never stop learning. Period," centenarian Maurice Eisman says in the poll report.
Great tips, especially eating right! Long-lived people don’t eat fast food and beef jerky. Japanese super-centenarian
Tomoji Tanabe eats
rice, seaweed, and miso soup. And this
72-year old gym-rat and centenarian in the making, eats a diet based on fruits, vegetables, beans, and nuts.
