Babbling Brooks

It was an easy, 1 day read. I felt that there are a lot of quotes and research-based findings and some of them are from the research conducted by the authors but most of them are quoted from others.  One thing though, my eagerness and a long time wish to visit Japan has now grown multi-fold and apart from Tokyo and Osaka, I now want to visit the province of Okinawa, where for every 100,000 people, about twenty-five of them live over the age of 100. Also, I want to visit the town of Ogimi, which is nicknamed as the "Town of longevity". I also wanted to visit Mr. Jiro’s sushi bar at the Ginza subway station, which is a Michelin 3-star sushi place with no branches elsewhere. When I read about the essence of Ikigai, which is "the happiness of always being in a flow, being busy", I related this to father-in-law, who is 77 years old widower, who insists on living by himself and is always in a quest to do some gardening, construction project or other. He has no serious h...

  If you don’t want to read all the 370 pages of this thought-provoking work, you may try watching this movie that sums it all up: https://www.plantpurenation.com/pages/plantpure-nation-movie Dr Colin Campbell strongly states that most chronic diseases like Cancer, Diabetes and Heart disease can be avoided, even cured by following a whole-food plant based (WFPB) diet regime. Another learning for me is that these are “diseases of affluence” unlike the “diseases of poverty” like tuberculosis. Significant cause of these diseases is animal-based proteins is his argument backed by solid research and a study conducted in China which he claims as one of the most comprehensive ones undertaken so far on nutrition. I was proud to learn that an Indian study was the source of the authors interest on this topic. The study was about how protein intake combined with cancer causing aflatoxin consumption increases the risk of getting cancel significantly. Aside from this reference, there wa...