Washington, Apr 16 : Any plans of completing a century in one lifetime? Well, a leading explorer and book author who has studied elderly Costa Ricans has found several basic threads that connect the longest-lived.
According to Dan Buettner, some of the several ways are: a plant-based diet; regular, low-intensity activity; an investment in family; a sense of faith; and purpose.
"We know that people who make it to a hundred tend to be nice," National Geographic quoted him, as saying.
"They … drink from the fountain of life by being likeable and drawing people to them,” he added.
Buettner has explored and studied the world's centenarian hot spots—which he calls blue zones—over the past several years.
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