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Originally Posted by 2BNTV
If one does not take care of themsleves and be their own advocate when dealing with the medical profession, one's demise could be hastened. Most people are determined by their genetic tree.
Just because on'e parent's lived to be a cerain age, does not automatically mean you will have identical longevitity. With the prolifertion of tests performed in preventive matainence mode, should help avoid serious problems,
Uncle's family:
1. Brother at 99.
2. Sister at 102.
3. Another sister at 104.
He passed away at 99, and still had a survivng sister of 104, and wife.
Wife Aunt V died at 96 two months after him.
Mom passed at 93.
Dad at 77. He was just a kid!!!  |
LONGEVITA.........Translates to "long life" in Italian.
My older generation of Italian relatives and ancestors also lived to ripe old ages, into their late nineties and late eighties.
There was no cancer at all in my father's Italian/Greek/French family (nor in my mother's Ukrainian family.)
However, those were the generations that did not dine out, but prepared their simple foods from scratch........heavy on the vegetables and legumes.......seafood and meat for special occasions, but not "high on the hog" every day.
**There was no frozen or prepared packaged foods back in their day; no drive up windows of fast food restaurants (which did not exist, obviously).
**Thus, no additives, preservatives, flavor enhancers, colors, etc. and certainly no chemicals.
In doing my ancestry, the ones who died young, either passed away at birth or shortly thereafter.......or in farming accidents.
Other ethnic groups around the Mediterranean also enjoyed longevity or "longevita".
I'm pretty sure the home made red wine (vino) helped keep their arteries open.
They were the last generation prior to everyone having a little colored pill for every body part.......and every minor ailment (with side effects that contributed to more issues and more little pills). We continue to be flabbergasted listening, each evening, to the Big Pharma commercials and myriad of warnings and side effects after a glorious presentation of WHY WE SHOULD TAKE ALL OF THESE PHARMACEUTICALS. They lived long WITHOUT them.
PORTUGAL AND LONGEVITY By James Martin
January 3, 2009
Until a few days ago, Tomar, Portugal was the home of the world's oldest known living human, Maria de Jesus. She attained the age 115 years and 114 days until passing away in an ambulance Friday.
Then comes word that Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira turned 100 recently while working on his 47th film in Lisbon’s Chiado district called "The Uniqueness of a Young Blond-Haired Girl."
I figure it's the copious amounts of vegetables found in Portuguese cuisine.
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Mediterranean Diet region includes many countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea including most famously France, Greece, Italy, Morocco Spain, Turkey, as well as other countries in Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East.
Europe: Portugal, Spain, Gibraltar (British overseas territory), France, Monaco, Italy, Malta, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Cyprus, Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Turkey (partly Asia).
Asia/Middle East: Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Israel.
Africa: Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco.
As you can imagine, there is a wide range of cultural and food traditions unique to each country. However, there are still many common ingredients connecting the longevity influencing diets of each country. Durum wheat pasta may be served as spaghetti in Italy, but adorn the plates in Morocco as couscous or be used as a pita in Greece.
Other common ingredients or food items include olive oil, use of fresh herbs, legumes, fresh fruit and vegetables, and mineral rich sea salt.
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I'm sure others among you can add the names of many others who lived to a ripe old age........but thought I'd contribute the Portuguese ones above.