"“A 75-year-old Tsimane's arteries are more like a 50-year-old American's arteries.”"
Studies show the hearts and brains of Bolivia's indigenous Tsimane people are the healthiest on the planet.
www.bbc.co.uk
An interesting article, but after the initial claims about the age of the lady (Martina) and her fitness, we then discover that they have no records and can't count...... In another part we see this sentence - "According to their records, Hilda is 81, but she says recently her family killed a pig to celebrate her “100th birthday or something like that”.
Nobody really has any idea how old that lady is. Then we discover that the researchers estimate their age from the age of their children. That may work for those with young children, but for those like Martina, they have no idea how old she really is at all. Because of this problem, some of the claims made here about how marvellously fit these very old people are, become preposterous.
Then we discover that the average life expectancy is FIFTY, and that they have a lot of parasites and suffer constant infectious diseases.
That said - there are some useful things to be taken from the way these people live, and the fact that those that don't die in childhood or early middle age don't appear to suffer many of the degenerative diseases of older Americans and Europeans.
They are FAR more active than we are, and are rarely sitting down - unlike us. Also, they are not eating lots of fat and get most of their calories from carbohydrates like yucca and plantain.
Of course if someone in Europe was eating lots of carbohydrates, and sitting around they would be heading towards diabetes or pre-diabetes.
So - get out of that chair and start running about and lifting heavy stuff and carrying it home - and don't eat too much so that you get fat. But really - I think we all knew that already, didn't we.
phys.org
