Japan's
Mieko Nagaoka has become the first centenarian to complete a 1,500-meter
freestyle race. She took up swimming at the sprightly age of 80 and has no
intention of slowing down.
Deutsche Welle, 6 April 2015
You could
be forgiven for taking it easy once you've turned 100, but Mieko Nagaoka from
Ehime, western Japan swam a 1,500-meter freestyle race instead. And made
history. She is the first person in the 100 to 104-year-old category to
complete the race. It took her just under 1 hour and 16 minutes.
Admittedly,
it's a more leisurely pace than that set by 18-year-old US swimmer Katie
Ledecky, who holds the women's world record of 15 minutes 28.36. Nagaoka, who
only took up the sport at the age of 80, told the Kyodo news agency: "I
want to swim until I turn 105 if I can live that long."
It wasn't the first 1,500-meter race for Nagaoka |
Her
achievement is expected to be recognized by Guinness World Records, the agency
reported.
Japanese
people have one of the highest life expectancies in the world. Government
figures from last September counted 59,000 centenarians in Japan, which means
46 out of every 100,000 people are 100 years or older.
Japanese
sprinter Hidekichi Miyazaki - known as "Golden Bolt" - was 103 when
he bagged the world record for the 100-meter dash in the 100-104 age category,
at a respectable 29.83 seconds.
ng/kms (AFP, SID)
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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.
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“… 3 - Longer Life is Going to Happen, But…
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