Where do people generally live the longest?

Question

I googled a few different ways and couldn't find any hard facts. In which part of the world do people in general tend to live the longest? Please provide links to research if you can. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Pakistan Hunzas

The land of vitality - the Hunza Valley

In India during the 1920s, British researcher Sir Robert McCarrison conducted one of the most eye-opening experiments relative to the correlation between diet and health. Dr. McCarrison spent many years in the Himalayan Mountains including the picturesque Hunza Valley. This magical fairytale-like place is found between the borders of China, India, Pakistan and Russia at nearly 8000 ft. The natives of this valley, the Hunzakuts, captured Dr. McCarrison's attention because of the their excellent health and extremely long lifespan.

"In these Himalayan Mountains is Hunza; a country slightly more than a hundred miles long and perhaps just as wide, containing approximately thirty thousand inhabitants," writes Dr. Jay F. Hoffman, the author of the book Hunza - Secrets Of The World's Healthiest And Oldest Living People, published in 1960. Dr. Hoffman was sent to Hunza under the auspices of the National Geriatrics Society.

"Here the people lived to be 100, 110, 120, and occasionally as much as 140 years of age. Here lies the real Fountain of Youth - probably the only one in the world… Hunza land is truly a Utopia if ever there was one. Just think of this! Here is a land where people do not have our common diseases, such as heart ailments, cancer, arthritis, high blood pressure, diabetes, tuberculosis, hay fever, asthma, liver trouble, gall bladder trouble, constipation or many other ailments the plague the rest of the world. Moreover, there are no hospitals, no insane asylums, no drug stores, no saloons, no tobacco stores, no police, no jails, no crimes, no murders, and no beggars."

Any westerner who stepped foot on the tiny land of this friendly nation couldn't stop raving about their good nature, outstanding hospitality, not to mention the physical strength and stamina of their men. " My own experience provides an example of a race unsurpassed in perfection of physique and in freedom from disease in general." Wrote Dr. McCarrison about the Hunzkuts. "Amongst these people the span of life is extraordinarily long… During the period of my association with these people I never saw a case of asthenic dyspepsia, of gastric or duodenal ulcer, of appendicitis, of mucous colitis, of cancer."

Not only are the Hunza people immune to serious diseases they are also spared the discomfort of commonplace conditions such as the cold or the flu. Dr. McCarrison, who specialized in nutritional diseases, was determined to learn their secret. The opportunity arose in 1927 when he was appointed the Director of Nutrition Research in India. Along with his designation he also received a well-equipped laboratory and qualified assistants.

The Doctor designed a whole series of experiments to determine how big of a role the Hunzakuts' diet plays in their supreme health and longevity. In the first experiment 1189 albino rats were fed the Hunza diet right from birth. This consisted of whole meal flatbread with a pat of fresh butter, sprouted legumes, fresh raw carrots and cabbage, unboiled whole milk(goat milk), and once a week a tiny portion of meat and bones. Plenty of water was provided for drinking and bathing. The only thing the rats did not receive was fruit, which the Hunza people ate a great deal of.

No diseases, no death

The rats were fed this diet for 27 months, which would be the equivalent of approximately 45 human years. The rats were killed, and thoroughly examined at all stages leading up to 27 months. Remarkably, no trace of any disease could be found in their bodies! This astonishing consequence could best be explained through Dr. McCarrison's words as he described his findings during a lecture at the College of Surgeons in 1931:

"During the past two and a quarter years there has been no case of illness in this 'universe' of albino rats, no death from natural causes in the adult stock, and, but for a few accidental deaths, no infantile mortality. Both clinically and at post-mortem examination this stock has been shown to be remarkably free from disease. It may be that some of them have cryptic disease of one kind or another, but, if so, I have failed to find either clinical or macroscopical evidence of it."

These results were truly staggering. But sadly, they did not have any real impact on the physicians present, whom, much like the doctors of today, have a greater understanding of disease than the lack thereof. There wasn't a sudden surge of articles and books propagating the Hunza diet and the avoidance of white rice, white flour, sugar and for the most part, meat. Their meals don't consist of pre-cooked, over-processed, and nutritionally devoid industrial chemicals - like the average American's. Instead, they enjoy locally grown organic fruit, vegetables, unprocessed fresh milk products, and green or whole grains.

As a follow up to his earlier experiment, Dr. McCarrison duplicated in his laboratory the low quality diet of a poor rural region of India. During this larger-scale experiment, 2243 rats were fed a diet deficient of vitamins, minerals and other important nutrients. The animal results matched the physical condition of the millions of people living in this region: Both groups developed diseases in every organ they possessed.
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Diet and longevity

The proponents of the vegetarian diet argue that studies have shown that the longest-lived animals had low-calorie vegetarian diet, and that rats fed high protein, high fat diet had the shortest life span. The studies of Dr. Paul Dudley on the Hunzas of Pakistan, who have amazing longevity, showed that they subsist on spartan and vegetarian diet of nuts, grains, fruits, vegetables, and a little goat milk. Fresh and/or dried apricots are their staple food. The Hunzas' lifespan is 140 years. While the inference is clearly there, more extensive controlled clinical studies on human subjects are needed to find out with certainty if vegetarian diet, although already proven to be healthy, really improves longevity.
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Answer 2

I can't give you any links. But my son had to do a paper on this for social society last year. He found out that majority of the oldest recorded people are from Asia. In Tibet there is a woman that is 112 (in 2005) and in Mongolia there is a man that is 117 (in 2005). If I remember right, they think it has to do with their diet and the air. They are mountain people and eat all natural foods and rice and oriental fruits. They looked old but could walk without walkers or canes and the woman still did laundry in the stream and the man made shoes.

Answer 3

There are some tribes in Japan that live a long time. And in a region of Italy they supposedly live a long time, and a place in Southern California.

Answer 4

It really demonstrates that modern medicine has failed us badly and we should be looking at nutrition

Answer 5

Japan.. I wouldn't count Andorra and such since they are too small to be compared to a real country

Answer 6

I know the japanese live long lives, not sure if they have the longest life span.

Answer 7

people from okinawa japan live the longest. it is believed they live the longest due to their diet

http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/pulse/scripts/01_02/fyi_-_okinawan_diet.pdf

Answer 8

People of today can no more live longer than life before. Just get prepared to die and you will die soon.
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Answer 9

The Japanese.

Answer 10

the fxxking Japs