It is no secret that in Japan more than centenarians than any other country in the world. In this case, people do not just live longer, but also to old age lead active lifestyles and are of sound mind. The Japanese believe that one of the people to whom they owe their longevity - it's Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, who himself is an example of an incredibly active aging. Even after 75 years, he wrote and published 150 books. His work "Live long, live well" has been translated into many languages and has sold 1.2 million. copies. In a hundred years old, he was the president of Tokyo Hospital. St. Luke and continued to accept patients and give lectures and address book has been painted for the next six months.
Unfortunately, in July 2017, this amazing man died. At the time of his death he was 105 years old, and until the last day, he led an active lifestyle and treated people. Dr. Hikohara left us a set of rules of longevity and health, and some of them are very unexpected. So they - in front of you.
1. Man receives energy from not eating or sleeping, and of fun. Remember as a child when we had fun, we forgot to eat, sleep, and we did not need? In adults the same. It is not necessary to exhaust your body very rigid routine of meals or sleep.
2. How long can live people of any race, nationality or gender. They have in common only one thing: among the oldest no fat. I, for example, for breakfast drink coffee or milk, or orange juice with a spoon of olive oil (which is good for the arteries and skin). Lunch - milk and cookies, or nothing if I'm too busy. When I work, I do not feel hunger. My dinner - vegetables, some fish and rice. Twice a week, I eat 100 grams of lean meat.
3. Always plan far ahead. My diary is usually filled before the end of next year - a record of patients at the reception, lecture and work in the hospital. But in 2016 I had planned to have a little fun and visited the Olympic Games in Tokyo!
4. Retirement is not worth. But if this can not be avoided, try to do it as late as possible. Today, the retirement age in Japan - 65 years, but it was introduced half a century ago, when the average life expectancy was 68, and centenarians in the whole of Japan there were only 125 people in the country. Today Japanese women on average live to 86, men - 80 years, and those who passed for a hundred - 36000!
5. Share your knowledge. I read 150 lectures a year for all audiences, from preschoolers to businessmen. My lectures last from an hour and a half, and I read them standing.
6. When a doctor recommends that you hand over any analyzes or to have surgery, ask him and he would advise the same to your children, wife or other relatives? Doctors can not cure all that they would not tell us. Why endure unnecessary suffering? Sometimes the music or animals therapists help to better surgery.
7. To stay healthy, go up the stairs and themselves carry their belongings. I just step over two steps, so that the muscles worked.
8. I was very inspired by the poem by Robert Browning "Abbe Vogler." I read as a child her father. It says that we must set ourselves big goals, in art and in life. If you are going to draw a circle, it has to be so big, so that his whole life is not complete. We see only part of this circle - arc, and the rest is beyond our vision and our lives.
9. Pain - a mysterious thing; the best way to cope with it - find something very interesting. When the child has a toothache, it is necessary to involve him in the game and he immediately forgets about the pain. Hospitals need to take care of it. We at St. Luke's a lot of fun: music, animals, and art therapy. All this is very helpful.
10. Do not try to save as much as material things can be. Remember: no one knows when his hour will strike. With all of this is not carry away.
11. Hospitals must be ready for a big disaster, and have to take anyone who knocks on the door. Our hospital is designed so that, if necessary, can be operated anywhere: in the basement, in the hallways, in the chapel. Most people believe that I'm crazy, just preparing for disasters, but the March 20, 1995 all this came in very handy when the sect "Aum Shinrikyo" commit a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway. But I'm not happy that I was right. We have taken 740 casualties in two hours and determined that it was sarin gas. Unfortunately, the patient did not survive, but we rescued 739.
12. Only one science is not able to help people. Science combs us all with the same brush, but we are all different, and illness are closely related to our soul. In order to understand the disease and to help the person, we need not only a science but also an art.
13. Life is full of surprises. March 31, 1970, when I was 59 years old, I flew from Tokyo to Fukuoka. It was a beautiful sunny morning, I admired Fuji, when the plane took members of the Communist cell "Red Army." The next 4 days I spent chained to a chair with handcuffs, 40-degree heat. As a doctor, I watched myself from the outside and was amazed at how the body adapts to the crisis.
14. Find a role model and try to beat him. My father in 1900 moved to the USA to study at Duke University in North Carolina. He was a pioneer and one of my heroes. Later I had other; when I find myself in a difficult situation, I try to imagine what they would do in my place.
15. To live a long time - that's fine. Up to 60 years we are working for the good of his family, and we can easily reach the set goals. But then we should try to benefit the entire society. Since I turned 65, I work for free, 18 hours a day, seven days a week. And I enjoy every minute.
And be sure to ask, what is the secret of the Japanese method of treatment of water.
