160: Centenarian dietary secrets
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
What should we eat to live a long, healthy life? Gina Baker, a writer, farmer, and researcher, who has lived in Costa Rica for over 20 years, went to the Nicoya Peninsula to learn about the traditional diets of centenarians. Her visits and conversations with the centenarians revealed that their traditional diet featured fried pork, pork brains, and lots and lots of lard. Does this surprise you? It definitely runs contrary to what was written up about the Nicoya people in "The Blue Zones." In that book, their diet was characterized as primarily vegetarian. On today's podcast, Gina does some serious myth-busting about what has kept the centenarians so well, for so long. She also shares secrets that she learned along the way about the key to the longevity, vitality, and strength of the centenarians of the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica.
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| 0:00.0 | Once one of the people that always come to interview him, he said one of them one they ask me |
| 0:06.0 | what is your favorite food? And then he said pork and the man said but that's the worst meat. |
| 0:15.0 | I think the guy asked him what's your favorite meat? |
| 0:18.0 | And then so the guy told him that's the worst type of meat. |
| 0:21.0 | And that 112 years, you know what he said to the man he said it |
| 0:26.8 | cannot be this bad if today you can be talking to me. Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast, sponsored by the Weston A Price Foundation for wise traditions in food, farming, and the |
| 0:45.7 | healing arts. |
| 0:46.7 | We're your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve |
| 0:51.1 | optimal health. Hey everybody, I'm Hilda Labrada Gore, and this is episode 160. |
| 1:02.0 | My guest today is episode 160. |
| 1:03.4 | My guest today is Gina Baker. |
| 1:05.6 | Gina has a master of science and is an Ayurveda certified lifestyle counselor. |
| 1:10.5 | Gina was born in Haiti, studied in the United States for a time, and for the past 20 years |
| 1:15.8 | she has lived in Costa Rica, where she and her husband have a small farm with two Jersey cows. |
| 1:21.5 | Gina is also a writer and a researcher with a particular interest in the centenarians of the |
| 1:27.2 | Peninsula de Nicoia on the western coast of Costa Rica. |
| 1:31.3 | These people were featured in the book The Blue Zones, but they were |
| 1:34.5 | incorrectly described as mostly vegetarian, when in fact their diet contains a |
| 1:39.6 | wide variety of animal products, including fried pork, fried pork brains and lots and lots of |
| 1:45.3 | lard. Gina lives in Costa Rica and she traveled to and from this region herself |
| 1:49.7 | to find out more about the diet from the centenarians themselves. On today's |
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