LAND OF LONGEVITY

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Star2, Friday, 18 October 2013

By Li Yang

China’s remote Bama county is home to some of the oldest, healthiest people in the world.

 

Bama Yao is an autonomous county in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.  The county, which was designated a global ‘home of longevity’ by the International natural Medicine Association in 1991, covers 1,971 sqkm and is home to 270,000 people. May this year shows 86 people were more than a century old.

Bama is the only world-famous longevity home in a subtropical region.  While other long-life hot spots such as the Caucasus Mountains, southern Xinjiang in China, Pakistan and Ecuador, all share features such as an abundance of fresh water and unpolluted air, Bama has an added ingredient.

 

FACTS:

• The county is situated on a deep fault line that cuts directly into the earth’s mantle and the resultant strong terrestrial magnetism helps maintain a high number of negative ions in the air, ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 ions per cubic centimetre, helped by the primeval forest and abundant rainfall.
• Influenced by the terrestrial magnetism, Bama’s spring and river water is restructured into micro-clusters, which some scientists believe promote cell regeneration.
• Research suggest that the local houses, built with rammed bricks made of local stone, mud and wood, also help to promote longevity because of the beneficial effects of low level radiation emitted by the rocks.
• Scientist says the local conditions help to strengthen resistance to disease, regulate the metabolic rate, alleviate bronchial asthma and stabilise blood pressure.
• The local diet is healthy too.  It includes corn, rice, millet, sweet potato, soybean, green soybeans, pumpkin stems, sweet potato leaves, mushrooms and meat.