Do Icelandic males tend to smoke crack cocaine and are there a lot of drive-by shootings there?
Or did they get the murder and mayhem stuff out of their systems in the Middle Ages? Just a thought.
Posted on 04/04/2008 6:38:22 AM PDT by VU4G10
REYKJAVIK (AFP) - Icelandic men have the longest life expectancy in the world, living an average of 79.4 years in 2007, Statistics Iceland said on Thursday.
"This is a world record. They live even longer than Japanese men," Oloef Gardarsdottir, a spokeswoman for the agency, told AFP.
Japanese men live on average 78.6 years.
"We don't have an explanation. It's really difficult to give a reason why," she said.
Icelandic women meanwhile have a life expectancy of 82.9 years, among the highest in the world.
Japanese women have an average life expectancy of nearly 86 years, according to United Nations statistics.
Icelandic men and women lived on average more than 81 years in 2007, not far behind Japan at 82 years and ahead of France at almost 81 years.
The North Atlantic island has long lived off of the fishing industry but has undergone a vast transformation since the mid-1990s, in particular due to a booming financial sector.
The Nordic country is one of the richest in the world, and has a population of 313,400.
I wonder if they factor in the Japanese killed during WWII.
I’d love to go.
www.facts-about-iceland.com/
Omega 3 Fish Oil: same exact reason as Japanese longevity.
3,000 mg per day of distilled Omega 3 fish oil.
Mineral-rich sea air, Omega 3, and lower pollution levels, most likely.
Yup, my first thought. These guys are the same DNA haplogroups, R1a, R1b and I as many other Europeans.
My son-in-law was stationed there on deployment and my daughter went there to be with him - they loved it.
Some pluses for the ‘natives’ = diet high in cold water fish, especially salmon (smoked in the winter) =
mostly non-polluting and cheap geothermal heat.
Biggest city a bit over 100,000.
and maybe most of all, far away from Europe and the Americas.
Yep
Mostly from salmon...smoked in the winter.
Reportedly, it's the only supplement Pres. Bush takes...
I really really like salmon - grilled, poached and particularly, smoked with cream cheese and cuke slices on a warm bagel
Do Icelandic males tend to smoke crack cocaine and are there a lot of drive-by shootings there?
Or did they get the murder and mayhem stuff out of their systems in the Middle Ages? Just a thought.
"Sea Air" is loaded with negative ions, which help energize and is a major "feel good" component....
The body does better on a 'diet' of "feel good"
>>These guys are the same DNA haplogroups, R1a, R1b and I as many other Europeans.
Could you elaborate on this? What does this mean?
Technically, it is partly in Europe, and partly in America - the continental split goes right through Thingvellir.
“I wonder if they factor in the Japanese killed during WWII.”
What do you mean?
You remind me of my kids when they were little. When they came to me with questions, instead of throwing them a fish, as it were, I'd say: "Let's look it up!"
They've been fishing ever since...of course, today, it's easier...with GOOGLE
Hmmmm, I wonder how difficult it would be to become the sole Viagra distributor there?
Used to be, way back in my childhood days, that gramma always came at you with a, arrrgggh, spoonful of it.
Thank goodness for capsules!
The advantage of cod liver oil over just fish oil is that it also contains vit D - essential, particularly = well here:
“The main difference between fish oil and cod liver oil is that cod liver oil is high in vitamin D. The cod liver oil has the advantage of providing vitamin D, which is necessary for most of us in the United States in the cold months of winter, when we don't get very much sun exposure on our skin in order to make vitamin D.
... You can consider cod liver oil as fish oil+. “
http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/cod-liver-oil.htm
Andorra's stats are supposedly pretty god as well. Mountain air.
Do they drink raw milk and fresh cheese in Iceland?
Moving to Iceland sure didn’t help Bobby Fisher in that department.
I’m sure GW will put a change to that soon enough....
The extra lifespan can be explained by the extra time it takes just to speak out their names. They need that extra time.
Geeee...I really apologize for what made it into that last post.
Those are the yDNA chromosomes of the majority of the Icelandic men...they are the same as most other European men.
This is how the majority of European male DNA spread across Europe after the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.
The darkest colored areas are where most of the DNA haplogroups spent the harshest period of the Ice Age.
BTW, I'm an R1b that invaded the British Isles from Denmark/Norway (maybe a Viking).
Maybe milk but they probably don't drink a lot cheese...
Sorry, the editor coming out...
the japanese at age 80 or so are part of the same group of japanese that were killed in huge percentages during WW2.
so we know that there are X amount of 80 year old Japanese now, are they factoring in these dead soldiers from 62 years ago as part of the sampling when they look at the 80 something Japanese now?
I know little or nothing of statistics so the question was not rhetorical, but an honest, question from someone who does not know how these things work.....
If you ever have the opportunity, by all means GO. I lived there from 1972-1979 and just loved it. The people are warm and friendly, most all speak English and murder is practically unheard of.
Bah! Make your own:
http://www.simnet.is/gullis/jo/Miscellaneous.htm
I do!!! I use the sour cream instead of the pettir. The recipe for skyr is just below the recipe for mayonnaise.
I’ve always wanted to go to Iceland, and this thread encouraged me to do some research... I spent the last several hours researching the different companies overing tours there. I think when I come home from Germany in July 2009 for PCS leave I will stop by Iceland for up to a week. I’ve recently begun to notice that being in the military has made me a lot more adventurous. I mean, how many Americans will travel alone to a little-known sparsely-populated country for a week? When I first got here in Germany, I got lost a lot (hehe...), but I didn’t panic, not even close. Now that I know my way around, I don’t get lost too much anymore. I love driving here! I am going to miss the autobahn (deutsche, not so much). I usually drive at 80-85 mph, but have been up to 115 mph (I’m trying to save my engine, and not have to buy another car here in Germany). All of it perfectly legal. My next duty station will probably be in England, but the maximum speed limit is about 70 mph there :-(
I hope you get to go; it is a fabulous place! Enjoy!!!!!
Oh, and hit a bakery! Good Lord, they're great! P.S. Look out for the traffic circle in Rekjavik; my first time there, I thought I was going to be there, going in circles for a week! LOL!!!!
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