Okinawans 400px|alt=Chart showing underweight, normal weight, overweight and obese|Body mass index chart As of the early 21st century, Okinawans in Japan continue practicing hara hachi bun me . They consume about 1,800 to 1,900 kilo-calories per day.Beuttner, p. 233 Their elders' typical body mass index (BMI) is about 18 to 22, compared to a typical BMI of 26 or 27 for adults over 60 in the United States. Okinawa has the world's highest proportion of centenarians, at approximately 50 per 100,000 people. Biochemist Clive McCay, a professor at Cornell University in the 1930s, reported that significant calorie restriction prolonged life in laboratory animals. Authors Bradley and Craig Wilcox and Makoto Suzuki believe that hara hachi bun me may act as a form of calorie restriction, thus extending practitioners' life expectancy. They believe hara hachi bun me assists in keeping the average Okinawan's BMI low, and this is thought to be due to the delay in the stomach stretch receptors that help signal satiety. The result of not practising hara hachi bun me is a constant stretching of the stomach which in turn increases the amount of food needed to feel full.
Okinawans 400px|alt=Chart showing underweight, normal weight, overweight and obese|Body mass index chart As of the early 21st century, Okinawans in Japan continue practicing . They consume about 1,800 to 1,900 kilo-calories per day.Beuttner, p. 233 Their elders' typical body mass index (BMI) is about 18 to 22, compared to a typical BMI of 26 or 27 for adults over 60 in the United States. Okinawa has the world's highest proportion of centenarians, at approximately 50 per 100,000 people. Biochemist Clive McCay, a professor at Cornell University in the 1930s, reported that significant calorie restriction prolonged life in laboratory animals. Authors Bradley and Craig Wilcox and Makoto Suzuki believe that may act as a form of calorie restriction, thus extending practitioners' life expectancy. They believe assists in keeping the average Okinawan's BMI low, and this is thought to be due to the delay in the stomach stretch receptors that help signal satiety. The result of not practising is a constant stretching of the stomach which in turn increases the amount of food needed to feel full.
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