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

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

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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.

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.

The original article is

here

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