BIONICQ45 wrote:Sopdadope,The average life expectancy of a Mongolian is 62-67 years compared to 75-78 for Americans. Andorra is the highest at 83.5 and the lowest is Zambia at 37.2. There are many factors that determine this: wealth of a nation, political and economical stability (wars), health care infrastructures and disease, etc. Eating meat and cheese sandwiches washed down by goat milk does not insure a long life span (it will insure constipation though).
For every case of someone living to be 130 there are probably a few thousand cases of someone dying at 60 and living the same life style. And I doubt Mongolian record keeping is perfect enough to document a 131 year old goat milker.
First of all, the Mongolian diet is not strictly meat and milk. Over the past decade and a half, since the beginning of the collapse of Soviet socialism, mongolians have been forced to a more limited diet. During the socialism years, the government provided tremendous support in terms of distributing money and raw materials to the agricultural system. Since 1990, there has been no such support because Mongolians now have to rely on a centralized economy and government that has done little but hamstring the way of life of the Mongolian people. Thus over the past decade, fresh vegetables and fruits have been hard, if not impossible, to come by. This has caused a rash of malnutrition, growth stunting and other health diseases due to lack of vitamins and nutrients which probably explains the overall shorter lifespan of Mongolians today.
I'd also like to point out that the population of Mongolia is only a fraction of the U.S. population, not even 1% yet they had numerous individuals aged 110 or more, how many do we have here in the States? The oldest "official" Mongolian native was 113 but there have been many, some much older than that snubbed by Guinness because they could not provide "proper documetation." I agree with you though, I highly doubt a Mongolian goat milker would carry an official birth certificate on him anytime soon. 62-67 is not bad considering these people still rely on herbs and "potions" to cure their illnesses, have no form of healthcare whatsoever, eat diets totally lacking vegetables and fruits, in some cases spending their entire lives living at altitudes upwards of a mile and a half in predominantly wintery climates. I'd say that's not bad at all. Let's compare that with the States, we have the highest rate of obesity in the world, highest rate of heart disease, cancer, etc.
With the advent of the growing tourism industry in Mongolia, they are now able to grow vegetable and fruits much like they did in the days of socialism so they're situation is improving.
Last thing I want to add is that my diet consists of let's say 50% meat and 50% veggies. I eat lots of seafood- salmon, calamari, oysters, lobsters (i'm addicted to sushi) and lots of lean meat like turkey and chicken breasts. Occassionally I'd have a steak or some pork chops here and there. I eat plenty of veggies and a fruit salad every morning (which contains the "meat" of my carbs). I limit my carb count to a maximum of 50 grams of carbs a day.
Exercises to improve my bench press? hmmm... I most do dumbell presses, 45 lbs. each. on all the benches, flat,incline decline. I also do tons of pushups everynight, 3 sets of 60.
