| The secret of long life: Sardinia
THERE is snow on the mountains but 81-year-old Gonaria Deledda is outside in just a housecoat, woolly tights and slippers vigorously scrubbing her stove pipe. I feel tired out just watching her. But by local standards in this corner of the Mediterranean shes still a youngster. Welcome to Silanus, a village on the Italian island of Sardinia, where residents are THREE TIMES more likely to reach their 100th birthday than just about anywhere else in the world. Sprightly Gonaria looks all set to join them and says: If I stop working my whole body will stop. Work keeps me going. That, the clean air and plenty of beans and red wine. She has spent her life tending her sheep, donkeys and olive trees, often walking more than six miles a day.
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