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And needless to say, everybody I ran into had their own special opinion
每个人都有自己特别的见解
These are these lovely old people that I met
这些是我碰到的可爱老年人
who said, you know what, you're barking up the wrong tree even talking about diet
他们说“你说饮食那你就错了”
It's our laid-back lifestyle this idea of siga siga which means slow slow
缓慢的生活节奏才重要，siga siga也就是“慢慢”，
and that we just moved slowly
他们走路很慢
and you know as a matter fact it's this woman was telling me this
其实，这是这位女士告诉我的
She was standing in the middle the road and the car came barreling along
她站在路中间，汽车快速开过
and she looked at the car and then sauntered over to the side
她瞟了一眼，慢慢挪到一边
So they very much had very physical, a lot of labor, but also very much had this philosophy of taking it easy
这些人都干体力活而且从容不迫
And then I met Nektarios who ran a taverna in Crete and he was a big believer in fasting
之后我见到酒馆老板Nektarios，他是斋戒的忠实信徒
and may fast for a huge number of days within the Greek Orthodox religion
希腊东正教信仰中需要斋戒很多天
Anybody here familiar with the fasting schedule there
有人熟悉那里的斋戒日程吗
In 40 days lent is that correct
四十天斋戒，对吧
And when I say fasting, it's not like you're not eating anything
而且斋戒并不是说什么都不吃
What you're doing is giving up all the decadent stuff
而是不吃一些“堕落”的食物
the same way as some people do for lent in this country
和这里信徒的斋戒很类似
So you give up the red meat; you give up the sweets; you give up the white flour and so on
不吃红色肉类、甜食、精白面粉这些
What they have found when they go and study the blood cholesterol levels of these folks
有研究显示，斋戒者的血胆固醇水平比一般人好
is that their cholesterol is better not just when they're fasting
而且不只是在斋戒那些天
but throughout the whole 365 days of a year
而是全年365天
