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> Advice From a 101 Old Doctor!
>
> Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, Japan , turned 101 on October 4th 2012
>
> As a 101 year old Doctor, he was interviewed, and gave his advice for a long
> and healthy life.
>
> Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world's longest-serving physicians and
> educators. Hinohara's magic touch is legendary: Since 1941 he has been
> healing patients at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching
> at St. Luke's College of Nursing.
>
> He has published around 15 books since his 75th birthday, including one
> "Living Long, Living Good" that has sold more than 1.2 million copies. As the
> founder of the New Elderly Movement, Hinohara encourages others to live a
> long and happy life, a quest in which no role model is better than the doctor
> himself.
>
> Doctor Shigeaki Hinohara's main points for a long and happy life:
>
> * Energy comes from feeling good, not from eating well or sleeping a lot. We
> all remember how as children, when we were having fun, we often forgot to eat
> or sleep. I believe that we can keep that attitude as adults, too. It's best
> not to tire the body with too many rules such as lunchtime and bedtime.
>
> * All people who live long regardless of nationality, race or gender share
> one thing in common: None are overweight. For breakfast I drink coffee, a
> glass of milk and some orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it.
> Olive oil is great for the arteries and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk
> and a few cookies, or nothing when I am too busy to eat. I never get hungry
> because I focus on my work. Dinner is veggies, a bit of fish and rice, and,
> twice a week, 100 grams of lean meat.
>
> * Always plan ahead. My schedule book is already full until 2014, with
> lectures and my usual hospital work. In 2016 I'll have some fun, though: I
> plan to attend the Tokyo Olympics!
>
> * There is no need to ever retire, but if one must, it should be a lot later
> than 65. The current retirement age was set at 65 half a century ago, when
> the average life-expectancy in Japan was 68 years and only 125 Japanese were
> over 100 years old. Today, Japanese women live to be around 86 and men 80,
> and we have 36,000 centenarians in our country. In 20 years we will have
> about 50,000 people over the age of 100...
>
> * Share what you know. I give 150 lectures a year, some for 100
> elementary-school children, others for 4,500 business people. I usually speak
> for 60 to 90 minutes, standing, to stay strong.
>
> * When a doctor recommends you take a test or have some surgery, ask whether
> the doctor would suggest that his or her spouse or children go through such a
> procedure. Contrary to popular belief, doctors can't cure everyone. So why
> cause unnecessary pain with surgery I think music and animal therapy can help
> more than most doctors imagine.
>
> * To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff. I take
> two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving.
>
> * My inspiration is Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler." My father used to
> read it to me. It encourages us to make big art, not small scribbles. It says
> to try to draw a circle so huge that there is no way we can finish it while
> we are alive. All we see is an arch; the rest is beyond our vision but it is
> there in the distance.
>
> * Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it. If a child
> has a toothache, and you start playing a game together, he or she immediately
> forgets the pain. Hospitals must cater to the basic need of patients: We all
> want to have fun. At St. Luke's we have music and animal therapies, and art
> classes.
>
> * Don't be crazy about amassing material things. Remember: You don't know
> when your number is up, and you can't take it with you to the next place.
>
> * Hospitals must be designed and prepared for major disasters, and they must
> accept every patient who appears at their doors. We designed St. Luke's so we
> can operate anywhere: in the basement, in the corridors, in the chapel. Most
> people thought I was crazy to prepare for a catastrophe, but on March 20,
> 1995, I was unfortunately proven right when members of the Aum Shinrikyu
> religious cult launched a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway. We accepted
> 740 victims and in two hours figured out that it was sarin gas that had hit
> them. Sadly we lost one person, but we saved 739 lives.
>
> * Science alone can't cure or help people. Science lumps us all together, but
> illness is individual. Each person is unique, and diseases are connected to
> their hearts. To know the illness and help people, we need liberal and visual
> arts, not just medical ones.
>
> * Life is filled with incidents. On March 31, 1970, when I was 59 years old,
> I boarded the Yodogo, a flight from Tokyo to Fukuoka . It was a beautiful
> sunny morning, and as Mount Fuji came into sight, the plane was hijacked by
> the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction. I spent the next four days
> handcuffed to my seat in 40-degree heat. As a doctor, I looked at it all as
> an experiment and was amazed at how the body slowed down in a crisis.
>
> * Find a role model and aim to achieve even more than they could ever do. My
> father went to the United States in 1900 to study at Duke University in North
> Carolina . He was a pioneer and one of my heroes. Later I found a few more
> life guides, and when I am stuck, I ask myself how they would deal with the
> problem.
>
> * It's wonderful to live long. Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work
> for one's family and to achieve one's goals. But in our later years, we
> should strive to contribute to society. Since the age of 65, I have worked as
> a volunteer. I still put in 18 hours seven days a week and love every minute
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