People with the highest life expectancy in the world tell the secret

Of course you've heard that Japan's people tend to live too long and Okinawa is the country with the largest number of people living above the age of 100.

What's interesting is that most of these people over the age of 98 function as independent, and are physically and mentally capable. That means they prepare their own food, and live alone at home.

It's been a long time since doctors have focused on physical age and not on chronology. They're more interested in quality of life than the number of years. There are a lot of people who are 50 and live like they're 70-year-old and the opposite.

Okinawa-The country with people with the highest life expectancy is a chain of islands northeast of Japan. There are many beaches and tropical climates.

But what is the secret of these people? According to a doctor who had visited this country, he had seen very active people, fixing the garden, performing physical work all the time, and who were not at all affected by heart disease, degentity or cancer.

When asked about this secret, they had told him that two factors were involved - ikigai and Moai. Ikigai, meaning the sense of purpose in life. According to them, each person should have a purpose in life and that that purpose develops more and does not fade as everyone thinks. Moai is also a social group of people who have common interests and care for each other.

Another important factor was healthy feeding, clean dishes respectively, which means avoiding dessert, reducing the size of portions, using smaller dishes, and eating slow. While the daily consumption of calories in America is 2,500 in Okinawa, it was 1,900 calories in one day.

They told about their saying: “hara hachi bu”, which means stop eating when you're 80% fed. This theory is also based on biological evidence because it takes 20 minutes until it sends signals to the brain to show that it is full. Unfortunately, until these signals are sent out, most people get extra calories.

The Okinawan diet included rice, sweet potatoes, fish, vegetables, a serving of fruit, soup, and a cup of green tea.

Although in America and other parts of the world, people do not use healthful foods and have a healthy life - style, they still have the advice of people who have the highest life span in the world.