Ebook: How the live to be 100 - The life-style of the people of the Caucasus

In the Caucasus are the largest number of long-living people in the world; men and women who live to be 90 commonly, often 100 and more (cases have been scientifically recorded of people as old as 160). These are not bedridden "senior citizens", but healthy, functioning people who work, make love, have roles of consequence in their communities.

For the first time, an anthropologist who is the world expert in this field has recorded in lively detail the results of years of research, actually living with the people from Georgia, Abkhasia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Daghestan. Dr. Benet has been permitted what no other foreigner ever has: complete and intimate access to the homes, family life, and records of the people as well as to the scientific data accumulated by world-tamed gerontologists. She is the first to record the biographical methods by which the authentic ages are scientifically documented.

Focusing on all the significant factors affecting longevity - climate, geography, diet (dozens of tested recipes are included), folk, medicine, recreation, plus much medical data - Dr. Benet balances both hereditary and environmental influences. The Caucasian people differ from one another in such things as religion and diet, yet Dr. Benet concludes that it is their similar pattern of life, their ongoing routines, that may be the most important factor in their longevity, and she shows us what we can learn from them.

And equally important, this is also the only existing study of a people and a culture in a remote, beautiful land.