JOK03.0006.xxf1 Among the treats in the menu at a “longevity restaurant”—an eatery claiming to serve food that will make patrons live longer—in Ogimi, Okinawa, are silver sprat fish, bitter grass with creamy tofu, daikon, seaweed, tapioca with purple potato and potato leaves, and pork cooked in the juice of tiny Okinawan limes. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 192). /// Hara hachi bu—”eat only until 80 percent full”—say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more. Some scientists attribute this longevity to the island’s unique, unbeatable combination of healthy eating habits, exercise, and low stress, as well as a community commitment to ensuring the quality of its older citizens’ lives. Sadly, although the island is being studied for clues to the oldest generation of Okinawan’s great longevity, studies say that the younger population will not live as long because of their diets higher in saturated fats and calories. /// This image is featured alongside the Matsuda family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The Matsuda family of Yomitan Village, Okinawa, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks’ worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. Takeo Matsuda, 88, and his wife Keiko, 75, live together with Takeo’s mother, Kama, 100. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 186-187 for a family portrait [Image number JOK03.0001.xxf1rw] including a weeks’ worth of food, and the family’s detailed food list with total cost.)