It is part of human nature to pursue everlasting and remain young and cheerful forever. We look for eternal youth thinking that health can only be achieved on the expense of forgoing our most delicious habits.

Some say that being a vegetarian and abstinence of toxic substances-i.e. tobacco and coffee- make you live until you are 100 years. If this is true, then the trade off is very costly: letting go the exquisite taste of juicious red meat, forgetting about smelly tobacco and stimulating coffee.

Others think yoga, running and good exercise will duplicate your life. I am sure these habits do make live longer, but since we all have very tight family and work schedules, it is not very likely that we will be disciplined.

Good sleep is always necessary to stay young but those of us who have children, a stressful career or even a sinful conscience will find it really hard to get. Even if we have the time to sleep and be young, the time we sleep is not an advantage. Excessive sleep is a waste of time in the world and if we are all afraid of premature death, the last thing we want to do is to waste time.

Certainly, the hardest thing to let go is sex. Some esoteric people have affirmed that celibacy is the pathway to live longer. At least, it seems to work for Buddhist monks who have forgone alcohol, sex, and meat, actually most of flesh pleasures. If "spiritual habits" are the secret of eternal youth, then I rather live five years. No one can isolate from the world and abstain from doing what the rest worldly humans like to do.

It is easy for Buddhist monks to have their "healthy and unsocial habits". Indeed, if they worked in the New York Stock Exchange, I bet they would get rid of their discipline really easily.

Would not it be great to finally find real people, made from bone and flesh, who have a lived an earthily life and surpass the 100 years? Well, that kind of people has been found in Cuba . The Cuban elderly assure that smoking habanos, drinking coffee, moderates amounts of alcohol and a plentiful sexual life have made them live so long. That is the way they declare their secret to reach their ages.

Moreover, Cuban old lads also enjoy life without drinking. None of them consumes great alcohol amounts. However they do drink great amounts of coffee and smoke like chimneys.

The Cuban village with greater number of people over 60 years old is Villa Clara where more than 60% of these people had parents who lived longer than them.

Experts have come to this little Caribbean country that has faced the harshest geographic and political circumstances and found an odd number of people in their hundreds.

Many Cubans have explained the possible reasons for their longevity giving many answers. One of them said that his secret was drinking a lot of milk. Other mentioned that he ate a lot of bacon. Another said he ate tomatoes. Everyone nonetheless has agreed that they enjoyed partying, dancing, and women. One of them said "I like dancing, harmony and beats, but above all things I love when they [women] love me."

They have lived organized and disciplined lives but none of them was sober. Besides "good love", they also assured drinking great amounts of coffee and smoking cigars.

Most of these old people were absolutely sound in what they said. They had lived a good normal life style and performed hand-made tasks in rural areas.

In addition, the Cuban old lads and gals were not strict vegetarians: 95% of the old people would include in their diets fish, eggs, bread and vegetable cooked with few spices.

In the whole island, there are more than 79 thousand people older than 60 years that represent 17 % of the population . The data revealed that other 46 thousand people older than 90 years old and people older than 60 years old are greater than 1.772 million live in the country.

The life-years-mean of all Cubans is around 78 years. There is even a club named "The 120-Year Club" that is composed of 2500 Cubans while in the world there is only a total of 5000 members of the Club in the World.

It is so wrong to say coffee and tobacco are the sources of eternal youth, but definitely they are not the reasons why you get old. Avoiding tobacco and coffee will not make you live until you turn 100 years. You should not forego your greatest pleasures in life in the eternal youth search.

I think the secret of remaining young lies behind a healthy balance of physical and mental work, diet, and fun. Actually, I should say that a happy heart makes a young heart. It doesn't matter the time someone can live. What really matters is how the person lives and if you want to reach 100 years with unpleasant sacrifices, then you should not do it.

Enjoy our coffee and cigars with no regrets. Nica's always brings you a happy life!!!!

(Source: prensalatina.com.mx)