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And Okinawa is like Hawaii of Japan and we had the words most famous for our military base
冲绳是日本的夏威夷，你们最熟悉的应该是那里的美军基地
It's much more laid-back culture than the rest of Japan and so on
当地人都比较悠闲，不像日本其它地方
and the traditional folks there are much more island folks
传统当地人更有岛国居民做派
And as you know, the elders in Okinawa have lived an incredibly long time and they're very healthy
要知道，冲绳的老人都非常长寿而且健康
They also happen to have very low rates of breast and prostate cancer, which was one of the things that I was looking at there
其乳腺癌和前列腺癌患病率很低，这就是冲绳吸引我的原因
But the reason that they had me come and teach as a visiting professor in Okinawa
当时我是去冲绳当客座教授
Guess why I was brought there for? To teach nutrition
猜他们让我去教什么？教营养
Now, isn't that funny
很滑稽，不是吗
That this doctor from San Francisco was brought to the place of the longest living people on Earth
一个旧金山的医生被请到全世界最长寿的地方
to the medical school to teach nutrition
在其医学院教营养
Well, they like me because I've gone to Harvard and they thought that was a nice category and so on and they're very into it
请我是因为我读过哈佛，他们认为哈佛很好
But all the medical students that I was teaching came from the north of Japan
而听我讲课的学生都来自日本北方
They came from places like Hokkaido and Tokyo and Kyoto and really smart wonderful students
来自北海道，东京，京都这些地方都是很聪明的学生
but have never left the hospital
只是从未离开过医院
They were there to study, none of them had ever been out into the local area at all
他们来学习，但从未到当地实地看看
And so my job was super easy
这让我的工作很简单
I would just run around with my little camera in the markets
我只用带着相机到市集上转转
And I would interview all the hundred-year-old ladies and take pictures of their foods
采访见到的百岁老人，并拍下其食物
and then I would go back to the big medical lecture hall
然后再回到医学院的大讲堂
And you know they all spoke English but their English wasn't so great, So it's good that I have lots of pictures
学生们也说英语，只是比较糟糕，所以用图片说话更好
