But, like Sardinia, Okinawa has a few social constructs that we can associate with longevity.

Here in Sardinia, the older you get the more equity you have, the more wisdom you're celebrated for.

We found our first Blue Zone about 125 miles off the coast of Italy, on the island of Sardinia.

You go into the bars in Sardinia, instead of seeing the Sports Illustrated swimsuit calendar, you see the centenarian of the month calendar.

For example, after Britain lost its American colonies at the end of the eighteenth century, Horace Walpole lamented Britain s reduction to as insignificant a country as Denmark or Sardinia. He failed to foresee that the industrial revolution would give Britain a second century of even greater ascendency.

And he told me that the best time of his life was when he was a member of the Red Brigades and he went sailing, every summer, back and forth from Lebanon, where he would pick up Soviet weapons from the PLO, and then carry them all the way to Sardinia where the other arms organization from Europe would go and take their share of the arms.