Yahoo, Laura Kenney, Managing Editor, Yahoo Health, March 4, 2015
Happy Birthday to Japan’s Misao Okawa, who turns 117 on Thursday, March 5th. She currently holds the Guiness World Records title of the world’s oldest living person, and is one of five people born in the 1800s who is still alive today — she was born on March 5, 1898!
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| The world’s oldest living person, Misao Okawa, blows out her birthday candles to celebrate her 117 birthday. (Photo: Getty Images) |
Happy Birthday to Japan’s Misao Okawa, who turns 117 on Thursday, March 5th. She currently holds the Guiness World Records title of the world’s oldest living person, and is one of five people born in the 1800s who is still alive today — she was born on March 5, 1898!
Okawa
donned a pink kimono and tucked a flower in her hair to celebrate her birthday
with friends and family. (Longevity runs in the family: Okawa’s two surviving
children are 94 and 92 years old!)
When Okawa
was asked about the secret to being a supercentenarian she said nonchalantly,
“I wonder about that too,” The Associated Press reports. In past interviews
she’s credited her long life to sushi and deep sleep — at least 8 hours
nightly. “You also have to learn to relax,” she’s said.
But we’re
on to her other secret. It’s her way of life.
Much has
been written about the long lives of Japanese people, who seem to enjoy full,
active lives without rampant disease well into their 90s and even 100s. Japan
has the most centenarians in the world with more than 58,000 living today —
Sakari Momoi, who at 112 currently holds the title of the world’s oldest living
man, is also from Japan.
In the 2002
book “The Okinawa Program,” authors explain how the residents of this Japanese
island chain avoid obesity, heart disease, cancer, dementia, and other
“elderly” diseases that Western societies take for granted as unavoidable.
The secrets
seem to be three-fold: First, Japanese people eat low-sugar, plant-based diets
without processed foods and junk. This dramatically lowers their risk for
inflammatory diseases and cancer. Younger generations who are now adopting more
Western diets are seeing sharp increases in obesity and heart disease.
The pace of
life is often slower in Japan, especially among older residents who didn’t grow
up surrounded by advanced technology. (Younger Japanese people, however, are
increasingly experiencing extreme amounts of stress thanks to globalization.)
Meditation and practices such as tai chi, part of many Japanese elders’ way of
life, have been shown in studies to thicken the brain (this is a good thing)
and increase cognitive function. Staying active through activities such as
gardening and walking also seems to play a big role in Japanese longevity. With
all the research coming out about how being sedentary all day long is terrible
for health, this only makes sense.
And
finally, a solid network of friends and family is also a factor. Social support
reduces stress, loneliness and isolation—all breeding grounds for disease.
Momoi
reportedly still participates in activities that keep his body and mind
working, such as throwing a ball and calligraphy. It’s a great reminder for
Americans to put down the smart phones, get up from their desks and pick up a
stimulating hobby.
You might
just live longer because of it.
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Additional reporting by Courtney Dunlop and The Associated Press
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(13) Question: Dear Kryon, I’m very concerned about the obesity epidemic, particularly in the U.S. Around me I see people getting bigger and more unhealthy, all for the sake of convenience and saving time. You mentioned at one point a famine, and I suspect the famine won’t be from a lack of food, but from an abundance of food that has no nutritional value.
I wonder how we can honor the Earth by eating nothing that comes straight from it? Of course this involves caring for the lands and oceans as part of a bigger issue and making that connection, too. Is this what it will finally take for people to switch to a healthier way of living?
Its amazing how detached people are from the food they eat. We don’t even honor our digestive processes, the way we combine foods. Whatever happened to nutrition? Atkins is no solution; there is no balance in it. Gastric bypass is all about quantity reduction, not quality increase. When will people make the direct connection between what/how they eat and their health? Is a change in diet and lifestyle part of the upcoming shift?
Answer: The shift has little to do with it. It’s a culture-specific problem and has to do with consciousness of health. Go study the cultures on your planet that have very few overweight Humans. Start with the Japanese. They have some of the same western work ethics and live in very sophisticated industrial-based environments. Yet they aren’t overweight. It’s about the core food groups and the combination of them.
Answer: The shift has little to do with it. It’s a culture-specific problem and has to do with consciousness of health. Go study the cultures on your planet that have very few overweight Humans. Start with the Japanese. They have some of the same western work ethics and live in very sophisticated industrial-based environments. Yet they aren’t overweight. It’s about the core food groups and the combination of them.
"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)
“… 3 - Longer Life is Going to Happen, But…
Here is one that is a review. We keep bringing it up because Humans don't believe it. If you're going to start living longer, there are those who are frightened that there will be overpopulation. You've seen the way it is so far, and the geometric progression of mathematics is absolute and you cannot change it. So if you look at the population of the earth and how much it has shifted in the last two decades, it's frightening to you. What would change that progression?
The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].
Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”
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