Food scholars observed Okinawa as a blue zone. An area where loads of people live t a hundred years old. But because of the dual colonization, both by japan and en by particularly the united states, after the second world war, you've seen a precipitous decline in life expectancy. And so yes, okina is now no longer the prefecture in japans with the longest loef people.
Industrial capitalism and colonialism are literally making us sick. Raj Patel and Rupa Marya on Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.
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