From The World Economic Forum:
On the sub-tropical Japanese islands of Okinawa, they have a saying: Live far enough away from your family so you’re not running into them every day, but close enough to take them a warm bowl of soup – on foot. Many of us during the past 18 months would have benefited from living within walking distance of our family. We’ve had to make do with Zoom calls instead – and the loss of social connection has affected our well-being and mental health.
Socializing is one of the reasons many Okinawans live healthily to 100 and older. So says University of Hawaii geriatrician and Director of the Kuakini Center for Translational Research on Aging, Dr. Bradley Willcox, who with his anthropologist twin brother, Craig, of Okinawa International University, has been studying centenarians on the islands for more than 20 years. It’s one of the world’s five Blue Zones, where there are high concentrations of centenarians.
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