Anonymous
Post 03/16/2024 20:27     Subject: SouthAsian ladies don't die
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.
Anonymous
Post 03/16/2024 14:12     Subject: SouthAsian ladies don't die
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
Post 03/16/2024 11:19     Subject: SouthAsian ladies don't die
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
Post 03/16/2024 11:09     Subject: SouthAsian ladies don't die
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
Post 03/16/2024 10:49     Subject: SouthAsian ladies don't die
Probably the hard life weeded out their less strong competitors in infancy and childhood.
Anonymous
Post 03/05/2024 22:43     Subject: SouthAsian ladies don't die
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
Post 03/05/2024 22:12     Subject: SouthAsian ladies don't die
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
Post 03/05/2024 22:08     Subject: Re:SouthAsian ladies don't die
Anonymous wrote:the competition with the daughter in law keeps them alive


😂🤣
Anonymous
Post 03/05/2024 09:30     Subject: SouthAsian ladies don't die
You only know the ones who made it to 70
Anonymous
Post 03/05/2024 09:25     Subject: Re:SouthAsian ladies don't die
the competition with the daughter in law keeps them alive
Anonymous
Post 03/05/2024 09:19     Subject: SouthAsian ladies don't die
My 95 yo auntie credits Ayurveda
Anonymous
Post 03/05/2024 09:08     Subject: SouthAsian ladies don't die
Anonymous wrote:Luck.

Heart disease is rampant in southasians, even aunties.


This. Heart disease and diabetes are both rampant.
Anonymous
Post 03/05/2024 08:37     Subject: SouthAsian ladies don't die
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
Post 03/05/2024 07:37     Subject: SouthAsian ladies don't die
Luck.

Heart disease is rampant in southasians, even aunties.
Anonymous
Post 03/05/2024 07:35     Subject: SouthAsian ladies don't die
It seems most southasian families have one or both grandma living past 90. What's the secret?