<B>Discover how the five cultures with the longest-living people eat and live, then enjoy 50 healthy recipes inspired by those locations—and perhaps live longer yourself.</B><BR/><BR/> When researchers identified a region in Sardinia as having the highest concentration of male centenarians, they later zeroed in on <B>villages around the world with the highest longevity:</B> Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California, among the Seventh-Day Adventists.<BR/><BR/> In <I>Live Longer, Live Better</I>, <B>nutritionist and chef</B> Melissa Petitto, RD, looks at the food and lifestyle choices of the people in these regions and presents it in an easily digestible format. The first part of the book <B>describes these areas of the world</B>, <B>what they have in common</B>, and <B>how their residents excel at living a healthy lifestyle that can lead to exceptional longevity</B>. Similar characteristics of these communities in