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Can we cure ageing?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Pension Fraud

There's a great deal of pension fraud that comes under people's records. Okinawa, which is this beautiful tropical island just off the south coast of Japan has supposedly the highest rate of centenarians in the whole country. Why are they centenarians so making it to that age? Well, it's because they eat this wonderful diet of these beautiful purple sweet potatoes that are only available in that part of the world. The strange thing about it is a lot of the sort of blue zones advice is broadly correct. It is good to have a sense of community and low level moderate exercise throughout the day. And probably is good to eat that lovely purple sweet potato.

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