Centenarians and longevity

Diet

Their roots, they do see themselves more as descendants of the Middle Age island kingdom Ryuku which had its own, distinctive culture–being, an exotic melting pot and trading post with influences from Polynesia, China, Mongolia and Korea than Japan. For centuries, immigrants have refined the magnificent diversity of tastes and aromas of food on the island: fish and seafood of all kinds, raw in the form of Japanese sushi, fried Korean-style or cooked and served like Spanish tap’s. Purple collared potatoes from China on equal footing with rice. Every day a portion of “champuru”: tofu slightly roasted with carrots, radish, spinach, and any imaginable kind of vegetable in the world. Drink one pot of tea after another. Only a little bit of salt, no bread and no dairy products. Also, herbs and spices by the spoonful: chilli, ginger, curcuma.
We do know:**The optimum nutritional micro-environment of every cell in the body is vital to achieve or restore optimal health; deficiencies in this environment cause the body to be more susceptible to diseases and degeneration**.
Most of these people are farmers and fisherman, growing there own food and catching fish and collecting shellfish and seaweed. The food that you absorb in your body every day should be infused with the power of the earth and the sea. Have known for a long time the beneficent powers of algae–here called seaweed. People in Okinawa eat about five times more seaweed than their fellow countrymen elsewhere in Japan. Average consumption in Japan is 2 gram/day. "Pollution, stress, fatigue and bad eating habits all affect the body," However seaweed is packed with easy-to-absorb proteins, vitamins, minerals and lipids, it can protect against environmental pollution and ward off aging.
Plants are seen as medicine, and therefore deserve our respect. Pollinating the vegetables by hand, using the seeds to extend the line/ hold on to there properties/nutrients. Modern plants are changed to increase yield (Water) and appearance but not to improve the spectrum of nutrients.
Even more important than diversity, is moderation. Never stuff yourself; it is a magic formula, a mantra of self-control. “tege”–(take it easy.) It’s a way, an attitude to life that means: Do as much as you can, but don’t become a prisoner of your daily chores. Take a break, to leave room for little pleasures, always and everywhere, Many still live on “Okinawa Time”. Meaning they don’t surrender to any pressures, no bus runs on schedule, and even on wedding day nobody arrives on time.