Healthy At 100 Main Text Hello, this is AJ again. Welcome to our next lesson. This one is called “Healthy at 100." Healthy at 100 is the name of a book by John Robbins. It's a fantastic book, very interesting and the topic of this book is exactly what the title says. The topic of this book is how to be a healthy person at the age of 100, which seems kind of amazing to most people. Can you be healthy? Can you be strong? Can you have energy when you're 100 years old? And the answer is absolutely yes. Now how did John Robbins write this book? It's very interesting. WelI, what he did, personally and then with his research assistants, he studied cultures, places in the world where large numbers of people live to be very old. But not only just live to be old, because, y'know, if you live to be old but you're weak, that's not very fun. So he studied places that had a lot of very old people who were also very strong, very energetic, very healthy, very happy. There's a big difference if you're 90 years old and you're in a nursing home and you're weak and sick, and ugh. Thať's a terrible life. But if you're 90 years old and you're out running and you feel great, well that's fantastic. And there are cultures like this and there are also a lot of individual people like this. And when I say a lot, I don't mean a lot by percentage. It's a small percent of the human population. But still there are thousands of these kind of people, I don't know, maybe hundreds of thousands, maybe millions. I'm not sure what the exact number is. But you can find these people. You can find specific cultures where there are a lot of them. And then you can find individuals. And so John Robbins was very curious about this and he wanted to know why. Why, why do some people live strong, long, healthy, active lives for a very, very long time? Why are some people so strong when they're older and live so much longer? And then other people, y'know, they're 60 years old, they're already tired and sick. Whať's the difference is what he wanted to know. And so he studied different groups. One of the groups were people, traditional people, on the island of Okinawa, Japan. So we're not talking, Okinawa now has a lot of modern culture, a lot of American influence. And those people do not live so long. And they're not so healthy. But the kind of people who live on Okinawa in a traditional way, the way they always have for a very long time, those people are very special. They live very long lives and they're very strong and healthy. They're still working when they're 80 or 90 years old, working like on farms, like hard, physical work. He studied another group of people in Pakistan, same thing. They lived to be 90, 100, over 100, and the whole time they're working, doing heavy, hard, physical work. It's pretty amazing. And then another thing they did is they studied individual people.