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USA TODAY (January 3, 2002)
Fabric of a Long Life
Juan Ponce de Leon and James Hilton had it all wrong. The fountain of youth isn't in Florida, where 16th-century Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon went searching for it. And Shangri-la isn't stuck way up in the Himalayas, where Hilton, author of Lost Horizon, placed his fictional paradise, whose inhabitants never aged.
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CANOE (October 10, 2001)
Okinawans have world's longest average lifespan
No country on earth has a longer life expectancy than Japan, and nowhere in Japan do people live longer than they do on sun-drenched Okinawa, a coral-ringed island just north of Taiwan.
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The Seattle Times (Oct 8, 2001)
Okinawa is a modern-day Shangri-La: Diet, exercise contribute to longevity claim
Heart disease and strokes are rare. Cancer rates are low. Instead of being shunted into homes and forgotten about, old people are out and about.
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Twin Cities WELLNESS (September, 2001)
Create Longevity through the Okinawa Program
A new book, The Okinawa Program, by Bradley Willcox, MD, D. Craig Willcox, PhD, and Makoto Suzuki, MD, is the first solid, long-term study of the longest lived population in the world, in the Shangri-La of Okinawa. The authors conclude that we could all add high quality years to our lives if we just lived like the Okinawans do.
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UC Berkley Wellness Letter (September, 2001)
Eat Like an Okinawan
A few years ago scientists were studying Cretans for clues to their longevity. The conclusion: high consumption of olive oil, fruits, grains, and vegetables, plus lots of hard physical work, was what kept heart disease rates low on Crete and in other parts of Greece. Now another island, Okinawa, is in the news, thanks to a best-selling book called The Okinawa Program, by researchers Bradley and Craig Willcox and Makoto Suzuki.
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The Canadian Press (June 5, 2001)
Twins Find Four Keys to Healthy Lives
Bradley Willcox ... and his twin brother Craig ... have spent seven years assessing the habits of Okinawans to determine why they have the world's longest disability-free life expectancy.
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Honolulu Star-Bulletin (July 30, 2001)
Okinawans Chew Way to the Top of Longevity Charts
Results of a 25-year study focusing on Okinawans and published in the United States confirm what some health professionals in Hawaii have suspected.
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Newsday (July 23, 2001)
Healthy Hints From Okinawa for Good Living Past 100
On Okinawa, the elderly are active and appear youthful beyond their years. There, you might see a 103-year-old ride his motorcycle to karate class, or a 101-year-old tending her garden before taking her vegetables to market.
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WebMD Health (July 20, 2001)
Add a Decade to Your Life
It's tried-and-true advice -- eat better, get some exercise, quit smoking, and you'll live longer. But how much longer? A new study shows you might just add a full decade -- 10 years of good-quality living.
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The Connection -- National Public Radio (May 8, 2001)
Living to 100
Dr. Bradley J. Willcox, author of "The Okinawa Program."; Dr. Thomas Perls, principal investigator, New England Centenarian Study; and Neenah Ellis, producer of the series, "One Hundred Years of Stories." discuss longevity.
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HealthWorld Online (July 4, 2001)
How Not to Die Before You Get Old
The Okinawa Centenarian Study, which began in 1976, concentrated on genetics and lifestyle. Over 600 centenarians and elders in their seventies, eighties and nineties were examined.
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Herald Net (June 24, 2001)
Walking can be first step to fitness after 50 ... or 80
"The Okinawa Program" not only reveals the lifestyle practices that keep Okinawans healthy and living longer, but it also offers readers a four-week plan with recipes, stress-relieving tips and information on beneficial herbs.
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Good Morning America (June 12, 2001)
Live Forever?
Diane Sawyer interviews Dr. Bradley Willcox regarding "The Secrets to Okinawan Longevity".
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Stars and Stripes (June 17, 2001)
Okinawan longevity secret's out
"Modern medicine is allowing more and more people to live longer. But it is an unhealthy long life, and that’s not good."
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San Francisco Chronicle (June 3, 2001)
Living long and prospering
There are six times as many centenarians per 100,000 people in Okinawa than in the United States, and 94 percent of their lives are spent free from disability. Rates of heart disease and breast and prostate cancer in Okinawa are less than a quarter of what they are in the United States.
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Japan Update (May 17, 2001)
Okinawan Elixir
It’s not the genes that you’ve got that matter it’s what you do with them.
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TaiPei Times (May 17, 2001)
New book pushes the advantages of living in Okinawa
Get healthy. Live longer. Go Okinawan.
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Life Extension Foundation (May 22, 2001)
Get with The Okinawa Program
Okinawans are more likely than any other people to reach and exceed age 100, and they do so with lower rates of dementia.
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Evening Standard (May 22, 2001)
Want to live to be 100? Read on
No one wants to get old and wrinkled, but in America the quest for perpetual youth is an obsession. Which might explain the instant popularity of a new book, The Okinawa Program, based on a landmark 25-year study of the people of Okinawa, a chain of islands off the coast of Japan that many regard as the real Shangri-la.
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The Gaurdian (June 7, 2001)
Want to live to be 100?
The islanders of Okinawa live longer than anyone else on the planet. And they stay fit, active and happy long into old age. Now a new book reveals their secrets.
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The Chicago Tribune (June 24, 2001)
The Okinawa factor
Unusually long, rich life spans lure doctors to see why the islanders thrive.
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The Boston Globe (May 22, 2001)
The Secret of Life
Okinawans, the world's longest-lived people, have a lot to teach Americans on the art of reaching 100.
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The New York Times (May 15, 2001)
Exploring Okinawans' Recipes for Longer Lives
What do the Okinawans know and do that we don't? Is it in their genes? Can we emulate them?
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The New York Post (May 1st, 2001)
Recipe for a Long Life
There's no Shangri-La, but Okinawa comes pretty close to being that mythical land of perpetual youth.
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Modern Maturity Magazine (April, 2001)
Long Story : Century-old Okinawans really know how to live
Okinawans not only live longer but they also remain healthier and more active until very late in life, enjoying what researchers call an extended "health span."
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