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And needless to say, everybody I ran into had their own special opinion
每個人都有自己特別的見解
These are these lovely old people that I met
這些是我碰到的可愛老年人
who said, you know what, you're barking up the wrong tree even talking about diet
他們說“你說飲食那你就錯了”
It's our laid-back lifestyle this idea of siga siga which means slow slow
緩慢的生活節奏才重要，siga siga也就是“慢慢”，
and that we just moved slowly
他們走路很慢
and you know as a matter fact it's this woman was telling me this
其實，這是這位女士告訴我的
She was standing in the middle the road and the car came barreling along
她站在路中間，汽車快速開過
and she looked at the car and then sauntered over to the side
她瞟了一眼，慢慢挪到一邊
So they very much had very physical, a lot of labor, but also very much had this philosophy of taking it easy
這些人都干體力活而且從容不迫
And then I met Nektarios who ran a taverna in Crete and he was a big believer in fasting
之后我見到酒館老板Nektarios，他是齋戒的忠實信徒
and may fast for a huge number of days within the Greek Orthodox religion
希臘東正教信仰中需要齋戒很多天
Anybody here familiar with the fasting schedule there
有人熟悉那里的齋戒日程嗎
In 40 days lent is that correct
四十天齋戒，對吧
And when I say fasting, it's not like you're not eating anything
而且齋戒并不是說什么都不吃
What you're doing is giving up all the decadent stuff
而是不吃一些“墮落”的食物
the same way as some people do for lent in this country
和這里信徒的齋戒很類似
So you give up the red meat; you give up the sweets; you give up the white flour and so on
不吃紅色肉類、甜食、精白面粉這些
What they have found when they go and study the blood cholesterol levels of these folks
有研究顯示，齋戒者的血膽固醇水平比一般人好
is that their cholesterol is better not just when they're fasting
而且不只是在齋戒那些天
but throughout the whole 365 days of a year
而是全年365天
