Bacon - Key to longevity

A place to discuss health and fitness, healthy diets. A fit body makes for a fit mind.
User avatar
m0rl0ck
Posts: 1193
Joined: Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:51 am

Bacon - Key to longevity

Post by m0rl0ck »

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/0 ... 30095.html
A 105-year-old Texas woman who worked a life of physical labor and mothered seven children revealed the secret to her longevity: bacon.
Im thinking it must be the preservatives. I bet she has seen alot of vegetarians come and go.
:pig:
“The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.” ― Robert M. Pirsig
User avatar
Kim OHara
Posts: 5584
Joined: Wed Dec 09, 2009 5:47 am
Location: North Queensland, Australia

Re: Bacon - Key to longevity

Post by Kim OHara »

m0rl0ck wrote:I bet she has seen alot of vegetarians come and go.
:pig:
Not in Texas.

:tongue:
Kim
User avatar
m0rl0ck
Posts: 1193
Joined: Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:51 am

Re: Bacon - Key to longevity

Post by m0rl0ck »

Kim O'Hara wrote:
m0rl0ck wrote:I bet she has seen alot of vegetarians come and go.
:pig:
Not in Texas.

:tongue:
Kim
:jumping:
“The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.” ― Robert M. Pirsig
User avatar
DNS
Site Admin
Posts: 17169
Joined: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:15 am
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, Estados Unidos de América
Contact:

Re: Bacon - Key to longevity

Post by DNS »

Every once in a while I google supercentenarians (living to 110 or higher) just to see who is on the current list and see if there are some things in common. Surprisingly (and perhaps disappointingly for some vegetarians) there is no one type of common diet found among the longest-living. Some eat plenty of veggies and very little animal protein while others eat quite a bit of animal protein. Perhaps the only thing they have in common is good genes, with several close relatives who also lived very long. A few other common things are; taking life easy, not getting too upset over things, an active life, but not overly strenuous (virtually no athletes or former athletes), and eating sweets. Many of the supercentenarians like chocolate and other sweets.

Besides good genes, maybe the best thing is just simply knowing how to enjoy life.
User avatar
Bhikkhu Pesala
Posts: 4644
Joined: Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:17 pm

Re: Bacon - Key to longevity

Post by Bhikkhu Pesala »

The longest lived disciples of the Buddha like Bākula and Mahākassapa seemed to be exemplary practitioners of the ascetic practices.
BlogPāli FontsIn This Very LifeBuddhist ChroniclesSoftware (Upasampadā: 24th June, 1979)
User avatar
Ben
Posts: 18438
Joined: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:49 am
Location: kanamaluka

Re: Bacon - Key to longevity

Post by Ben »

What is that quote from the Buddha about its better to live one day in the Dhamma than a century without it?
Doing what we can to live a long and healthy life is good, but living our life with the Dhamma as our anchor and guide, is so much better.
kind regards,

Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global ReliefUNHCR

e: [email protected]..
User avatar
Sam Vara
Site Admin
Posts: 13460
Joined: Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:42 pm
Location: Portsmouth, U.K.

Re: Bacon - Key to longevity

Post by Sam Vara »

....Not for the pig, it's not.
User avatar
Kim OHara
Posts: 5584
Joined: Wed Dec 09, 2009 5:47 am
Location: North Queensland, Australia

Re: Bacon - Key to longevity

Post by Kim OHara »

Sam Vara wrote:....Not for the pig, it's not.
:lol:
:clap:
I shoulda thought of that!!

Kim
alan
Posts: 3111
Joined: Wed Sep 30, 2009 12:14 am
Location: Miramar beach, Fl.

Re: Bacon - Key to longevity

Post by alan »

Eating sweets? Surely you jest. Junk food is the number one killer.
binocular
Posts: 8292
Joined: Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:13 pm

Re: Bacon - Key to longevity

Post by binocular »

One hundred years of boredom ...
Hic Rhodus, hic salta!
User avatar
DNS
Site Admin
Posts: 17169
Joined: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:15 am
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, Estados Unidos de América
Contact:

Re: Bacon - Key to longevity

Post by DNS »

alan wrote:Eating sweets? Surely you jest. Junk food is the number one killer.
No joke. The typical supercentenarian enjoys sweets. I should add though, that they also tend to be on the thin side. Too much junk food can be a killer, especially for those overweight / obese, but for whatever reasons, the supercentenarians seem to enjoy them and it works for them. My great-grandfather was not a supercentenarian, but lived pretty long to the age of 97. He ate cookies for breakfast, a slice of pie for lunch and a small tv-dinner for the evening meal. He was very skinny.

Some examples:

Jeanne Louise Calment (France); current record holder for longest (verified) lived human to the age of 122.
Ate 1 kilo of chocolate every week

Sarah Knauss (United States)
119
Enjoyed milk chocolate turtles (candy)

Kamato Hongo (Japan)
116
occasional snacks of brown sugar.

Christina **** (Australia)
114
“had an interest in her music and food, particularly chocolate cake"

Gertrude Baines (U.S.)
115
loved ice cream

Emma Morano-Martinuzzi (Italy)
113 (and still living)
eats a "little" chocolate everyday
User avatar
Modus.Ponens
Posts: 3853
Joined: Sat Jan 03, 2009 2:38 am
Location: Gallifrey

Re: Bacon - Key to longevity

Post by Modus.Ponens »

David N. Snyder wrote: No joke. The typical supercentenarian enjoys sweets.
I'm going to be a hypercentarian! :D
'This is peace, this is exquisite — the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding.' - Jhana Sutta
User avatar
Viscid
Posts: 931
Joined: Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:55 pm
Location: Toronto, Canada
Contact:

Re: Bacon - Key to longevity

Post by Viscid »

I think, in the case of supercentenarians and perhaps more generally, we should be looking less at their diet and more of their lifestyle as a whole-- their philosophy, their responsibilities, their interests, their relationships, the way they manage stress, etc. It is my perception that the people who are most deeply satisfied with living are the ones who tend to live the longest lives.
"What holds attention determines action." - William James
dharmagoat
Posts: 88
Joined: Sun Oct 18, 2009 4:41 am
Location: Gone Bush

Re: Bacon - Key to longevity

Post by dharmagoat »

David N. Snyder wrote:No joke. The typical supercentenarian enjoys sweets.
Just a thought: Maybe they enjoy sweets simply because they are old.
User avatar
Ben
Posts: 18438
Joined: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:49 am
Location: kanamaluka

Re: Bacon - Key to longevity

Post by Ben »

dharmagoat wrote:
David N. Snyder wrote:No joke. The typical supercentenarian enjoys sweets.
Just a thought: Maybe they enjoy sweets simply because they are old.
More likely they enjoy sweets because they like them.
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global ReliefUNHCR

e: [email protected]..
Post Reply