Psychiatrist Hideki Wada Published A Book Called ’80-Year-Old Wall’


Psychiatrist Hideki Wada published a book called “80-Year-Old Wall” in March this year, and at that time Prime Minister Fumio Kishida also purchased a copy.

As soon as the book was released, sales exceeded 500,000 copies, becoming the best-selling book at the moment. If it continues at this rate, sales of this book will exceed 1 million copies, making it the best-selling book in Japan this year.

Dr. Wada, 61, is a doctor specializing in mental illnesses in the elderly. In the past 35 years, he has treated about 6,000 patients.

To sum up the book “80-Year-Old Wall” in one sentence, it is “an ode to 80-year-olds.”

Specifically, this book tells 80-year-olds how to live to 100 in good health in the context of the “100-year-old” era.

Currently, the “average healthy life expectancy” (the age at which one is physically and mentally independent and healthy) of Japanese men is 72.68 years old and that of women is 75.38 years old.

In terms of “average life expectancy”, Japanese men are 81.64 years old and women are 87.74 years old.

Subtracting “average healthy life expectancy” from “average life expectancy”, men have about 9 years and women have about 12 years of “time requiring care from others”.

How to minimize this time is the core content of Dr. Wada’s masterpiece.

According to this point of view, the elderly do not need to take sleeping pills frequently. It is a natural phenomenon that sleep time decreases with age, and no one will die from insomnia. 24 hours a day, sleep when you want to sleep, wake up when you want to wake up, this is the privilege of the elderly.

In addition, the cholesterol level that the elderly generally worry about is not a big deal even if it is high to a certain extent. Because cholesterol is the raw material for the human body to produce immune cells.

The more immune cells there are, the lower the risk of cancer in the elderly. In addition, part of male hormones is also composed of cholesterol. If the cholesterol level is too low, the physical and mental health of men will be unsustainable.

Similarly, it doesn’t matter if the blood pressure is high. More than 50 years ago, humans were generally malnourished.

Therefore, when the blood pressure reaches about 150, the blood vessels will rupture. But now few people are malnourished, so even if the blood pressure exceeds 200, it will not cause blood vessels to rupture.

Dr. Wada summarized the secrets of 80-year-olds to become “lucky people” into “44 sentences”, as follows:

  1. Keep walking
  2. Take a deep breath when you feel irritated
  3. Exercise to the extent that your body does not feel stiff
  4. Drink more water when using the air conditioner in summer
  5. “Diapers” are very helpful for increasing mobility
  6. The more times you chew, the more energetic your body and brain will be
  7. Memory loss is not due to aging, but to long-term disuse of the brain
  8. There is no need to take a lot of medicine
  9. There is no need to deliberately lower blood pressure and blood sugar levels
  10. Being alone does not mean loneliness, but enjoying a relaxing time
  11. Being lazy is not a shameful thing
  12. No need to pay for a driver’s license (considering that it is more dangerous for the elderly to drive a motor vehicle, Japan has quietly started a movement to “ask the elderly to pay for their driver’s license”)
  13. Do only what you like, not what you hate
  14. You can still have sexual desire when you are old
  15. No matter what, don’t stay at home all the time
  16. Eat whatever you want, a slightly plump figure is just right
  17. Do everything carefully
  18. Don’t deal with people you hate
  19. Don’t watch TV all the time
  20. Instead of fighting the disease to the end, it is better to coexist with it
  21. “There will always be a way out when the car reaches the mountain” is the magic spell that makes the elderly happy
  22. Eat meat, especially cheap red meat is best
  23. Keep the bath time within 10 minutes
  24. Don’t force yourself if you can’t sleep
  25. Doing happy things is most conducive to improving brain activity
  26. Say whatever you want to say, don’t worry too much
  27. Find a “family doctor” as soon as possible
  28. Don’t be too patient or force yourself, there’s nothing wrong with being a “bad old man”
  29. Sometimes it’s okay to change your words
  30. Dementia in the last stage of life is a gift from God
  31. Stop learning and you will get old
  32. Don’t be greedy for glory, everything you have now is good enough
  33. Innocence is the privilege of the elderly
  34. The more troublesome things are, the more interesting they are
  35. Sunbathing makes people happy
  36. Do things that are good for others
  37. Live leisurely today
  38. Desire is the source of longevity
  39. Live in an optimistic state
  40. Breathe easily
  41. The rules of life are in your own hands
  42. Accept everything calmly
  43. People with cheerful personalities are very popular
  44. A smile brings good luck

Japanese, Chinese or other races may have different views on the above tips. But we have to admit that there are many suggestions worth referring to.

Most importantly, the new word “lucky age” is really great!

It’s worth reading by following every point again & again in our life on this universe.

Even if there is no gain, I am sure that there will not be any pain.

Our anatomy lecturer always said this statement “brain is the only organ that grows with use”.

His words always ring in my head to this day, oftentimes I think my brain has grown a lot.

 

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Do Goats Have Rectangular Pupils?


Claim: Goats have rectangular pupils.

On Sept. 10, 2024, a claim spread on social media about the shape of goats’ pupils. One Facebook user posted a meme that asked: “Have you ever noticed that goats have rectangular pupils?”

The caption read: “Goats are [grazing] herbivores and need to be able to protect themselves when a predator comes along. A broad line of sight, aided by wide, rectangular-shaped pupils, allows them to see danger approaching from their peripheral vision.”

(Facebook user My Love)

Earlier, a similar post appeared on Instagram in August 2024, while other iterations have circled on TikTok, Pinterest, X, and Reddit for years.

In short, because goats do have rectangular, horizontally oriented pupils, we have rated this claim as “True.”

Encyclopedia Britannica explained how the horizontally elongated pupils allow goats to have a much wider field of view: “Grazing animals like goats and sheep have rectangular pupils that greatly increase their peripheral vision and enhance forward vision. As the animals raise and lower their heads to eat, their eyes automatically rotate so that their pupils remain parallel to the ground.”

Another Britannica article, titled: “Discover why the eyes of some animals, such as sheep and goats, have horizontally elongated pupils,” said the eyes of sheep, goats, horses, and other grazing animals contain horizontal pupils to help protect them from predators.

Similarly, a BBC Science Focus article referenced a 2015 study from the University of California, Berkeley, which found that the evolution of vertical versus horizontal slit pupils is closely linked to whether an animal is a predator or prey:

A 2015 study at the University of California, Berkeley, concluded that the evolutionary choice between vertical and horizontal slit pupils comes down to whether you are predator or prey. Predatory animals with vertical slit pupils, like cats and many snakes, can maintain sharp focus across the horizontal field of view and more accurately judge distance to their prey.

Horizontal slit pupils, on the other hand, sacrifice image sharpness at the left and right edges in return for wider peripheral vision. This gives prey animals such as horses and sheep a better chance of spotting predators.

Below, you can see a close-up image of a goat’s eye provided by Getty Images:

(Getty Images)

The photo’s description read:

Combination of two photographs shows the close-up of an eye of the goat on April 03, 2018 in Izmir, Turkey. The horizontal pupils enhance the image quality of objects and enable a panoramic vision. Each of the millions of different animal species on the earth have different eyes with different functions according to the conditions. Each of these eyes is unique and perfect on its own.

 

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Coffee Was Discovered Thanks to Dancing Goats?


The story that the first human to consume coffee was inspired by witnessing goats dancing after eating coffee berries has been told since at least the 17th century. The earliest known version of the claim was published in 1671. However, because no primary-source records describing the origin of the human consumption of coffee are known to exist, there is no hard evidence either for or against the story.

For years, a claim has circulated online that humans first began ingesting coffee due to a goatherd noticing his goats dancing after eating coffee berries — the small, round fruits of the coffee plant. Coffee berries contain the seeds — generally referred to as coffee beans — that are roasted, ground, and steeped in water to produce the caffeinated beverage known as coffee.

Claim – Humans were inspired to consume coffee when a goatherd noticed his goats dancing after eating coffee berries centuries ago.

The claim appeared in numerous posts on X, Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms. One March 2023 TikTok video featuring the claim had amassed more than 346,000 views and 33,700 likes as of this writing.

@henrybelcasterThe invention of coffee? original sound – Henry Belcaster


But the claim did not originate online. The earliest recorded written version of the story dates to 1671, when a monk and scholar named Antonius Faustus Naironus wrote a Latin treatise on the health benefits of the beverage, which was introduced to Europe via the Ottoman Empire around a century earlier.

Translated into English in 1710 as “A Discourse on Coffee: Its Description and Vertues,” Naironus’ treatise said coffee was discovered by “a certain Person that look’d after Camels, or, as others report it, Goats,” who noticed “that his Herds twice or thrice a Week not only kept awake all Night long, but spent it in frisking and dancing in an unusual Manner.”

According to Naironus, the camel or goat herder sought guidance from a local religious leader, who “resolv’d to try the Vertues of these Berries himself,” boiled them in water and drank the result, which he found kept him awake and able to pray all night.

Notably, according to Naironus, this story took place in the “Kingdom of Ayaman” (modern Yemen) rather than Ethiopia, where many modern versions of the claim have been set.

As explained in the Britannica entry for the history of coffee, wild coffee plants are native to Ethiopia, but their widespread cultivation for consumption in beverage form is generally believed to have begun in Yemen at an unknown date.

In the centuries after Naironus’ story was first published, versions of it circulated widely in English-language books and magazines, including but not limited to an 1835 schoolbook for children, an 1866 issue of the Illustrated Magazine, and in U.S. Department of Agriculture publications dated 1912 and 1964. In several of these stories, the goatherd was given the name Kaldi, which did not appear in Naironus’ account.

In short, however, there is no conclusive proof humans were inspired to consume coffee after watching goats eat coffee berries. The authors of modern books about the history of coffee have been clear that there is no evidence the dancing goat story is anything more than one of several legends about the origin of the human consumption of coffee.

For this reason, we have rated this claim as a “Legend.”

For example, Bennett Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K. Bealer, the authors of the 2001 book “The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World’s Most Popular Drug,” described the dancing-goat story as a “myth,” noting that it had become “the coffee origin story most frequently encountered in Western literature.”

Similarly, Morton Satin, the author of the 2011 book “Coffee Talk: The Stimulating Origins of the World’s Most Popular Brew,” wrote (archived): “It is impossible to say with any certainty how valid the story is.”

(Google Books)
The reason for this is that there are no known primary-source documents that recorded the origin of the human consumption of coffee. As noted in the entry for “Coffee” in the “Oxford Companion to Food,” the earliest known written mention of coffee appeared in a 10th-century Arabic work by the physician Rhazes, who was also known as Al-Razi.

By the time of Rhazes’ account, humans may have been cultivating and consuming coffee for centuries. Additionally, as mentioned above, the first known written version of the dancing goat story appeared even later, in the 17th century.

To explain the persistence of the story, one Reddit user, who responded to a November 2023 r/AskHistory post asking whether there was any real evidence to back it up, said:

A lot of people believe it because it’s extremely plausible. All the boxes are checked, even when you look into the details. The area is generally believed [to have been] somewhere between the horn of Africa and Southern Arabia. Coffee bushes did grow wild in those areas. A goat herder makes far more sense because goats could potentially [be] herded through the hilly regions where coffee tends to grow.

As that Reddit user noted, the claim coffee was discovered thanks to dancing goats is plausible, in the sense that it offers a logical explanation for how humans first developed an interest in consuming coffee and contains no elements that can be disproven easily, if at all.

However, plausibility is not the same thing as proof, and, ultimately, there is no hard evidence to either support or disprove the claim that humans began to drink coffee after observing the dance moves of goats who had eaten the caffeine-containing seeds of coffee berries, which is why we rated this as a “Legend.”

Legend: This rating is most commonly associated with items that describe events so general or lacking in detail that they could have happened to someone, somewhere, at some time, and are therefore essentially unprovable.

 

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