SouthAsian ladies don't die

[Anonymous]

It seems most southasian families have one or both grandma living past 90. What's the secret?

[Anonymous]

Luck.

Heart disease is rampant in southasians, even aunties.

[Anonymous]

With what quality of life, OP? My east Asian grandma died of Covid at 99, in a nursing home, before the vaccine came out. Without the pandemic, she might be still alive today. However she couldn't recognize anyone and had had dementia for years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Luck.

Heart disease is rampant in southasians, even aunties.

This. Heart disease and diabetes are both rampant.

[Anonymous]

My 95 yo auntie credits Ayurveda

[Anonymous]

the competition with the daughter in law keeps them alive

[Anonymous]

You only know the ones who made it to 70

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the competition with the daughter in law keeps them alive

😂🤣

[Anonymous]

It’s luck. At 82, my mom (a vegetarian, but not South Asian) is 15 years younger than her aunt, but looks 15 years older and is in terrible shape physically and mentally.

[Anonymous]

Anecdotally, No alcohol/cigarettes. Limited processed food. Daily homemade meals. Less risk-taking.

Probably need to watch the blue zone series on Netflix for a better answer.

[Anonymous]

Probably the hard life weeded out their less strong competitors in infancy and childhood.

[Anonymous]

In our area many of them get SSI despite having a well off family. Maybe it motivates them
(To be fair a lot of older immigrants of other ethnicities get SSI as well. And they seem to be living forever!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally, No alcohol/cigarettes. Limited processed food. Daily homemade meals. Less risk-taking.

Probably need to watch the blue zone series on Netflix for a better answer.

Does eating sweetened condensed milk directly from the can count as a processed food?

[Anonymous]

Are they cognitively fine too? I know a handful of S. Asian folks with elders in their 90s and it sounds like Heck on earth-paranoia, physical abuse, hallucinations and doctors get fed because if the parent refuses to stay on meds. Not the life I want. I would rather pass with all my faculties in my late 70s.

[Anonymous]

I’ve always assumed it’s because of the fresh home-cooked food, lack of unhealthy vices like drinking and smoking, not too much obesity, and close family ties including living with their grown kids or seeing them frequently.