103-year old Marge Jetton stays healthy with daily exercise. Her daily routine is to ride bicycle (stationary) for 15 minutes followed by her dumbbell workout. This has helped her to keep her active and strong.

After loosing her husband at 77th year of her marriage, once she found herself alone but soon she gathered courage and joined volunteer organizations to keep her busy. One can easily imagine about her health as at 103-years, she is associated with 7 volunteer organizations.

It is interesting to note that other natives of her town are also keeping very good health since most of them eat well, exercise and volunteer. It is noteworthy that most of them are very religious. That adds quality years to their life.

Most of them are vegans. There is no meat and dairy in their diets. They relish on locally grown beans and nuts. It surely contributes to their health.

Island of Okinawa in Japan is another area which boasts of healthy and long living people. Okinawans live longer than Americans by seven years. Heart attacks and cancer cases are quite rare. They believe in lifelong friends as it helps in reducing the stress. Daily exercise and gardening are some of the preferred ways for 84-years old persons.

Their diets are made of tofu, vegetables and fish. They strongly believe in 80 percent full.

Article adopted from http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/20081009_tows_bluezones/12