For the 20th consecutive year, Japanese women have claimed the title of the world’s longest living group. In Japan, the female life expectancy is 85.59 years. For Japanese men, the life expectancy is an average of 78.8 years, second only to men from Iceland.
What is the secret to their longevity? A healthy diet and improved medical care are among the factors offered by the Japanese government. Regarding diet, the Japanese diet tends to be rich in vegetables and fish products and relatively low in animal fats.
Women from Hong Kong, followed by Swiss women round out the top three.
So how do we win this great honor in the U.S.? “The Japanese diet tends to be rich in vegetables and fish products and relatively low in animal fats.” There it is in quotations. If you review Low Carb Dieting for Dummies or many of our other sources at Benzinger On Health, you will find author after author detailing the benefits of this diet on almost every chronic disease in our society. Even with beauty, as pointed out in the book The Skin Type Solution, diet changes your chemistry and can advance or slow aging of your skin and body.
God Bless,
Dr. Benzinger
