New research to be conducted in the small village of Molochio in southern Italy will examine why more people than usual live well into their hundreds. But is everyone else willing to follow the same behaviour if it makes them live longer?
“No bacco, no tabacco, no venere
—no drinking, no smoking, no women.” He told the reporter that he had lived on mostly figs and beans growing up and never any red meat. 103-year old Domenico Romeo said the same–“, a non-scientific term for an area of the world where people are regularly recorded living longer and with lower rates of chronic disease–Icaria, Greece is one and the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica is another.
So what’s the reason? Why have the local population routinely lived longer than 100 years of age? Now EU funding and U.S. researchers are coming to investigate. One hypothesis is that the deprivation they suffered as children, the fact that they had very little food and were forced to fast for long periods of time, has played a huge part in their longevity.
The planned clinical trial will take 500 people and split them into two groups, giving one group the food eaten by people with modern habits and the other, the food eaten by these centenarians and only at specific times of the day, as
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