If you sat down to eat with a 95-year-old Sardinian shepherd, an 87-year-old Ikarian widow, a 92-year-old Okinawan farmer, and a 100-year-old Costa Rican grandmother all on the same day, the meals would look completely different from one another. The Sardinian would serve you a hearty fava-bean and barley soup. The Ikarian would offer black-eyed [...] The post People in the longest living populations on Earth tend to eat roughly four to five times as many beans as the average Westerner — black beans in Nicoya, fava beans and chickpeas in Sardinia and Ikaria, soybeans in Okinawa — making beans the single most consistent dietary feature across communities where reaching 100 is not unusual, in a finding that has held up across decades of longevity research appeared first on Space Daily .
People in the longest living populations on Earth tend to eat roughly four to five times as many beans as the average Westerner — black beans in Nicoya, fava beans and chickpeas in Sardinia and Ikaria, soybeans in Okinawa — making beans the single most consistent dietary feature across communities where reaching 100 is not unusual, in a finding that has held up across decades of longevity research
