https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/italy-s-struggling-economy-has-world-s-healthiest-people

So here's the thing.  Italians outlive us.  They outlive everybody apparently.  (We are sadly way down the list.)  And in fact this is an OLD/ageing country.  The only people having kids are immigrants.  And thank God for them because they are the ones taking care of all the old people!  In-home caretakers are predominantly eastern European.  Housekeepers tend to be from Asia.  Even priests and nuns here are now coming from Africa and Asia.  Italians are just sitting around getting REALLY old.

What I don't understand is that in this country of outlivers the outliviest of them all are the Sardinians.  Saturday night we went to a Sardinian pig roast. Or should I say a piglet roast.  A many piglet roast.  This is an annual event but it was the first time we have gone.  Our friend Riccardo organizes it with a Sardinian pizza-maker buddy.  The pizza oven is closed to pizza for 12 hours and loaded up with sucking pigs, a Sardinian specialty.  There were 35 of us at one very long table.  There were about 50 bottles of new wine, Sardinian cheeses, salamis and hams, and massive platters of roast pork.  If this is how these people eat I'm confused as to how they live so long.  Maybe it's the island air or something in the water, exercise, sex.  Who knows!  But they ain't got no Mediterranean diet, that's for sure.  I love roast pork and this was very good but I'm on veggie regiment for the next few days.  Maybe I'll have added a few minutes to my life!  xxoo me