All language subtitles for Healthy At 100 - Effortless English Power 2019 - Lesson 12

Hello, this is AJ again.

Welcome to our next lesson.

This one is called “Healthy at 100.”

Healthy at 100 is the name of a book by John
Robbins.

It’s a fantastic book, very interesting
and the topic of this book is exactly what

the title says.

The topic of this book is how to be a healthy
person at the age of 100, which seems kind

of amazing to most people.

Can you be healthy?

Can you be strong?

Can you have energy when you’re 100 years
old?

And the answer is absolutely yes.

Now how did John Robbins write this book?

It’s very interesting.

Well, what he did, personally and then with
his research assistants, he studied cultures,

places in the world where large numbers of
people live to be very old.

But not only just live to be old, because,
y’know, if you live to be old but you’re

weak, that’s not very fun.

So he studied places that had a lot of very
old people who were also very strong, very

energetic, very healthy, very happy.

There’s a big difference if you’re 90
years old and you’re in a nursing home and

you’re weak and sick, and ugh.

That’s a terrible life.

But if you’re 90 years old and you’re
out running and you feel great, well that’s

fantastic.

And there are cultures like this and there
are also a lot of individual people like this.

And when I say a lot, I don’t mean a lot
by percentage.

It’s a small percent of the human population.

But still there are thousands of these kind
of people, I don’t know, maybe hundreds

of thousands, maybe millions.

I’m not sure what the exact number is.

But you can find these people.

You can find specific cultures where there
are a lot of them.

And then you can find individuals.

And so John Robbins was very curious about
this and he wanted to know why.

Why, why do some people live strong, long,
healthy, active lives for a very, very long

time?

Why are some people so strong when they’re
older and live so much longer?

And then other people, y’know, they’re
60 years old, they’re already tired and

sick.

What’s the difference is what he wanted
to know.

And so he studied different groups.

One of the groups were people, traditional
people, on the island of Okinawa, Japan.

So we’re not talking, Okinawa now has a
lot of modern culture, a lot of American influence.

And those people do not live so long.

And they’re not so healthy.

But the kind of people who live on Okinawa
in a traditional way, the way they always

have for a very long time, those people are
very special.

They live very long lives and they’re very
strong and healthy.

They’re still working when they’re 80
or 90 years old, working like on farms, like

hard, physical work.

He studied another group of people in Pakistan,
same thing.

They lived to be 90, 100, over 100, and the
whole time they’re working, doing heavy,

hard, physical work.

It’s pretty amazing.

And then another thing they did is they studied
individual people.

There are just certain people, for example
one of my favorites, one of my favorite teachers,

he’s dead now but I think he’s a great
example, I want to be like him.

And his name is Paul Bragg.

Paul Bragg was in America one of the first
people to start health food stores.

He kind of started the health movement in
America.

He was one of the first people to start eating
organic food, for example.

Well Paul Bragg, he is so interesting.

He died when he was, I believe, 96 years old.

You know, that’s pretty good itself, he
lived to be 96.

But here’s the cool part, this is the part
I love.

How did he die when he was in 96?

Was he in a bed sick with cancer?

No, he was surfing.

He was surfing when he was 96 years old and
it was a surfing accident.

Like I don’t know what happened.

I guess he was surfing and he fell off the
board and another surfboard hit him in the

head or he hit a rock or something.

You know, it’s sad that he died, of course.

But he died active.

He’s out on the waves surfing in the ocean.

Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, daaah.

And he’s 96 years old.

Awesome!

Or Jack LaLanne, another great guy from the
United States.

In fact he learned from Paul Bragg.

He’s still alive today.

He’s 90 years old.

He’s still super energetic.

He exercises constantly.

He swims.

He runs.

He lifts weights.

His wife also, they’re both like 90‐something
years old and they’re just so strong and

healthy.

We can find a lot of people like this actually.

And what’s really interesting when you compare
Paul Bragg, Jack LaLanne, these different

peoples in Okinawa, in Pakistan, other parts
of the world, they have similar things.

They’re all doing similar things.

There’s a reason.

It’s not a roll of the dice, remember that
phrase?

It’s not a roll of the dice.

It’s not luck.

And it’s not because of their family members,
because Paul Bragg’s father and mother didn’t

live really long and really strong.

It’s something they are doing.

So that’s what this book is about, Healthy
at 100.

And one of the things they study in the book
is cancer.

Why do some people get cancer at a high rate
and other people very, very low rate of cancer?

Let me read a little section from the book
now and it’s about cancer and it discusses

the reason, or one of the biggest reasons.

And it’s titled Cancer and Animal Foods.

Here we go: If the correlation between cancer
and animal food consumption is indeed powerful,

you would expect many studies to find a connection
between the two.

It turns out there are many.

For example, a study of 122,000 female American
nurses found that those women who ate meat

daily were two and a half times more likely
to get colon cancer than those women who ate

meat less than once a month.

In 2001 a comprehensive Harvard review of
the research on dairy products and prostate

cancer found that those who had over the course
of their lives consumed the most dairy products

had double the rate of prostate cancer and
four times the rate of metastatic prostate

cancer.

A high intake of fruits and vegetables, on
the other hand, was associated with a lower

risk of advanced prostate cancer.

Other studies including the famous physicians
health study have also confirmed a link between

dairy product consumption and prostate cancer.

And a study of more than 12,000 men found
that those who drank soy milk regularly rather

than cow’s milk had a whopping 70% reduction
in their risk of prostate cancer.

Today, men in China who are still eating their
traditional plant‐based diet without any

dairy products have one of the lowest rates
of prostate cancer in the world.

And no one can say these low rates are due
to a genetic advantage because Chinese American

men living in the United States, eating the
standard American diet, have rates 10 times

as high as their genetic counterparts still
eating in the traditional way in China.

Whoo, okay.

That’s a little bit difficult section.

A little bit scientific and some long sentences
there, let me just explain what it means.

So basically, he’s talking about a lot of
research related to cancer.

And here’s what they find, the basic result.

The more animal food you eat, so that’s
meat and dairy, the higher your risk for cancer,

the higher the rate of cancer.

The less you eat, the lower the rate of cancer.

So strict vegetarians, which are called vegans,
have the lowest rates of cancer in the world.

People who eat lots and lots and lots of meat
and drink a lot of milk and eat a lot of cheese,

they have the highest rates of cancer in the
world.

Interesting.

That’s one reason I’m a vegetarian to
be honest.

And another thing that you find is these people,
like Paul Bragg, like Jack LaLanne, these

different people in different parts of the
world, they may not be total strict vegetarians.

However, they eat very, very, very little
meat.

They almost never drink milk or dairy products
or eat cheese.

They are eating a lot of fresh organic vegetables
basically.

And, of course, fruit as well.

I mean that’s the big secret.

Yes, you’ve got to exercise and move your
body.

That’s another part of the book.

He talks about that diet is one big factor
but also moving your body and getting a lot

of exercise and physical activity, of course,
is very important as well.

Those two factors are the biggest factors
in determining how long you will live, how

healthy you will be, how strong you will be,
how much energy you will have in your body.

So, y’know, I never tell people “Be a
vegetarian” because it’s a personal choice,

I think people need to decide on their own.

However, if your goal is to be a very healthy,
strong person, live a long time, reduce your

risk for cancer, heart disease and a lot of
other things, you should think about it.

You should at least reduce your meat and dairy
intake a lot.

And, y’know, again don’t just believe
me.

Maybe I’m just crazy AJ.

Go look at the scientific research.

Get the book Healthy at 100 by John Robbins.

There’s a lot of other stuff out there.

Do your research.

Get on the internet if you want to and do
some research.

But I encourage you reduce the amount of fat
and meat and cheese and milk and all that

stuff.

Get it out of your food.

Get it out of your diet.

Keep it out of your body and start eating
a whole lost more vegetables and fruit.

Get some real healthy, vital, energetic food
into your body.

You’re going to feel a lot better.

And you’re going to get the same kind of
energy that people like Paul Bragg have, that

Jack LaLanne has, that Tony Robbins has, that
I have.

Alright, we’ll see you next time.

Bye bye.