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La Dolce Vita, or Temptations within Limitations

Is the answer to a long and healthy life really just a matter of cutting out fast food, processed food, and sugary treats? Well, if you’re doing it to excess, absolutely. But by the same token, I am unconvinced that a life of vegetables and salad is a surefire recipe for reaching 100. My family always indulges in a little of la dolce vita. Cakes, cream, mascarpone, wine, pasta, cheese—we’ve never overdone it, but we regularly partake of rich foods a little bit, without any real harm. Reaching our 80s and 90s is a common feature with us Chiappas. So I believe occasionally indulging in rich foods is definitely one of the ingredients in the longevity recipe.

But the only way to begin to work out the true secrets of longevity is to go straight to the source, as it were. Since life is too short to visit all 679 centenarians currently living in Wales, I decided to visit three: Doris Griffiths, Eric Jones and Ronald Prince.