1350-3826 - Tsepak Lhakhang Monastery. Lhasa Tibet China. Outside of Ramoche Temple. The women make a procession around the temple to ask the god of longevity Cherisi chepal to have a good delivery, or old people to pray to him.
844-21878 - View of Tower of Buddhist Incense on Longevity Hill, Summer Palace, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Asia
844-21876 - View of Tower of Buddhist Incense on Longevity Hill, Summer Palace, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Asia
844-21877 - View of Tower of Buddhist Incense on Longevity Hill, Summer Palace, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Asia
844-21875 - Tower of Buddhist Incense on Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake at Yihe Yuan (The Summer Palace), UNESCO World Heritage Site, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Asia
1113-71352 - Mummy of 126 year old monk Wuxia, in the Longevity Hall, Baisui Gong, Jiuhuashan, Mount Jiuhua, mountain of nine flowers, Jiuhua Shan, Anhui province, China, Asia
857-58705 - One of the many passageways across deep ravines and over rivers trekking in Nepal. A suspension bridge made of aluminum, steel cables, and chain link fencing.
857-30896 - Kazuko Uezu, age 65, makes tofu before dawn in her small shop in the village of Hedo. Despite 50 years of practice "every batch tastes slightly different" says Kazuko who rises at 4-am seven days a week to make tofu. Traditional methods and a small production produces subtle variations in every batch despite the fact that tofu has only two ingredients, salt water and soy beans. Kazuko get the salt water from the East China Sea (just down the road from her house) but the soybeans come from America. Okinawan centenarians eat tofu daily and it is believed the high flavanoid content in tofu contributes to their longevity. Flavanoids are known to fight breast and prostate cancer and believed to combat heart disease.
857-32745 - Tofu links for sale at the Loma Linda Market in Loma Linda, California, home to a large number of seventh Day Adventists who are predominantly vegetarian.
857-30893 - Kazuko Uezu, age 65, makes tofu before dawn in her small shop in the village of Hedo. Despite 50 years of practice "every batch tastes slightly different" says Kazuko who rises at 4-am seven days a week to make tofu. Traditional methods and a small production produces subtle variations in every batch despite the fact that tofu has only two ingredients, salt water and soy beans. Kazuko get the salt water from the East China Sea (just down the road from her house) but the soybeans come from America. Okinawan centenarians eat tofu daily and it is believed the high flavanoid content in tofu contributes to their longevity. Flavanoids are known to fight breast and prostate cancer and believed to combat heart disease.
857-30906 - Lydia Newton celebrates her 112th birthday with friends and family making her among the 20 oldest living human beings on earth. Lydia, born March 23, 1893, shares oatmeal every morning with her 90 year old daughter Margaret Rader in their triple wide trailer at a small trailer park outside of town. "I eat oats with half and half and we don't watch the fat let me tell you" says Lydia. "We were never out to make a lot of money, just to live. We made our own toys out of rubber bands and spoons and I think we were a lot happier than kids today" says lydia who has not had a cold or flu for 23 years. As for politics..."It goes in one ear and out the other. I don't care who the next president is. They are all a bunch of liars. I have decided that if the men can't run this country its about time they give a woman a chance."
857-30904 - Lydia Newton celebrates her 112th birthday with friends and family making her among the 20 oldest living human beings on earth. Lydia, born March 23, 1893, shares oatmeal every morning with her 90 year old daughter Margaret Rader in their triple wide trailer at a small trailer park outside of town. "I eat oats with half and half and we don't watch the fat let me tell you" says Lydia. "We were never out to make a lot of money, just to live. We made our own toys out of rubber bands and spoons and I think we were a lot happier than kids today" says lydia who has not had a cold or flu for 23 years. As for politics..."It goes in one ear and out the other. I don't care who the next president is. They are all a bunch of liars. I have decided that if the men can't run this country its about time they give a woman a chance."
857-30895 - Kazuko Uezu, age 65, makes tofu before dawn in her small shop in the village of Hedo. Despite 50 years of practice "every batch tastes slightly different" says Kazuko who rises at 4-am seven days a week to make tofu. Traditional methods and a small production produces subtle variations in every batch despite the fact that tofu has only two ingredients, salt water and soy beans. Kazuko get the salt water from the East China Sea (just down the road from her house) but the soybeans come from America. Okinawan centenarians eat tofu daily and it is believed the high flavanoid content in tofu contributes to their longevity. Flavanoids are known to fight breast and prostate cancer and believed to combat heart disease.
857-30885 - Zen-ei Nakamura, an 88 year old fisherman form the town of Motobu, hauls up his catch from a net he had set earlier. "Fishing is my life" he said. "Ikigai" a Japanese word that roughly translated means "reason for living", is something most elderly Okinawans have always had.
238-3946 - Astragalus, used to protect the immune system, wolfberry, used as a general tonic, to protect the liver, improve vision, strengthen legs and promote longevity, and red date (Jujube) to strengthen heart and lung function, nourish stomach and spleen, and support normal blood pressure
733-3244 - Xumi Fushou (Temple of Sumeru Happiness and Longevity) dating from 1780, Chengde city, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hebei Province, China, Asia
733-2232 - A bell room in the Palace of Peace and Longevity at Zijin Cheng The Forbidden City Palace Museum, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Beijing, China, Asia
733-2240 - A bell room in the Palace of Peace and Longevity at Zijin Cheng The Forbidden City Palace Museum, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Beijing, China, Asia
733-2264 - Tower of Buddhist Incense on Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake at Yihe Yuan (The Summer Palace), UNESCO World Heritage Site, Beijing, China, Asia
718-1049 - Taula de Torre Trencada, prehistoric, neolithic remains of Talayotic culture, Menorca (Minorca), Balearic Islands, Spain, Mediterranean, Europe