Healthy Heart Diet

I spent years fighting against morbid obesity, and morbid obesity won hands down. It brought along its best pals - self-loathing, despair, and false hope; oh, and its tank division - the weight scales. I was on the edge of disability and ready to just give up and accept my fate.

At the southernmost prefecture of Japan lives a population who treats centenarians as if they are ordinary beings and are not walking miracles. And why shouldn't they when they live in a place where aging past 80 or even a hundred years isn't a miracle but is an inevitability? People all over the world have been trying to find out a way to live as long. Their conclusions? Okinawans have been forced to feed on specific food types for the whole of their lives. Why? Because of how they live: isolated in the fertile Ryukyu Islands.