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Stan Bleszynski Stan=Heretic Diet Scammer exposed. Okinawa Doesn't Mean 'Island of Pork'. Centenarians Eat Wheat, High-Carbohydrate, Grain-based, Anti-Paleo Diet OKINAWA DOES NOT MEAN "ISLAND OF PORK". THIS IS FALLACIOUS. The word Okinawa (沖縄) consists of 2 Kanji characters in Japanese: Oki and Nawa ( 沖 is Oki and 縄 is Nawa ). Oki means sea or water ( 沖 ). Nawa means rope ( 縄 ). Okinawa therefore actually means: "Rope of the Sea"--referring to the appearance of the 'string of islands that reside in the sea'. It is NOT TRUE that Okinawa is "The Island of Pork". It is NOT true that the word Okinawa translates to The Island of Pork. The Okinawan Centenarians are not eating a pork-based diet. The centenarians of Okinawa were found to be eating barely 1% pork. Nearly all the rest of the diet of the oldest people in the world is Vegetarian. SOURCE: "The Diet of the World’s Longest-Lived People and Its Potential Impact on Morbidity and Life Span" JOURNAL: Annals of the Academy of Sciences - Volume 1114: 434–455 (2007). Okinawa is part of a rope-like string of islands at the southern part of Japan. These are the Ryukyu islands. Hence, Okinawa means "Rope of the Sea". There is nothing about the islands of pork. The "Island of Pork" phrase was fabricated and was traced to a health-fraud organization which was found promoting meat-based diets which did not like the scientific results that the healthiest people were eating mainly vegetarian. The supposed "source" used to assert the "Island of Pork" line ("wonder-okinawa" japan) was merely a marketing and travel site, not a scientific study, and that source site is now nowhere to be found. The source cited by those purporting that Okinawa mean "The Island of Pork" does not exist. The page is gone and deleted and the individuals had to replace their source with new urls (such as .okinawa-information dot com which is also NIOT a scientific site, but again is a marketing and advertising site. It is not a peer-reviewed journal, it is a website full of recipes.) The supposed sources again are merely layperson's blog sites which are referring not to the centenarians specifically but are promotional sites for pork farmers and farmers markets and these are referring to the Okinawan population in-general which includes people who ate more pork but died sooner. In any population there may be people who ate more or less pork. There may be some in the general population that ate more pork, but did not live to become centenarians. Nevertheless, using this pseudoscience, Low-carb Atkins and Paleo bloggers and commenters then spread this false claim across the internet on article comments, on paleo and low-carb promotional "blogs". Thus, the material asserting this claim is often merely coming off of social network systems such as facebook users, and people without nutritional qualifications posting the assertion as a user on a discussion forum. When asked for proof, again the un-scientific travel and "recipe" promotional advertising sites are quoted as "proof". Often, persons either on a lowcarb or paleo diet, or those who are selling low-carb books and paleo plans prefer to hear, even though it is erroneous, that the Okinawans eat tons of pork all day, and do not want to hear that the scientific data came back showing that the people with some of the longest lifespans were not eating bacon and pork, but rather were 98% vegetarian. Some lowcarbers and paleo afficionados sometimes eat up to a pound or two of meat each day, and multiple strips of bacon multiple times a day. Loren Cordain of the paleo diet is pushing a paleo proportion of 55% animal meat (!). Per day. And meat at all 3 or more meals each day. Sometimes including multiple strips of bacon for breakfast, then more meat at lunch and more meat, even more pork, at dinnertime. So it is worrisome and disconcerting when the scientific results come back that many of the persons eating this way died sooner, and that the
