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Originally Posted by Barefoot
Thanks, I thought it was either 600 or 800 people. When was the study done?
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Search, "The Okinawa Centenarian Study", and you will find some basic information. It was a 25 year study that began in 1975.
I guess the most surprising thing is that there were so many centenarians who were in good health and still working their gardens etc.. Many of them never had any physical ailments.
It was proved NOT to be genetic. Second generation Japanese-Americans have the same rates of degenerative diseases as all other Americans.