![]() In other words, the Rosetans kept each other alive. Every family home consisted of three generations, nobody was marginalized. ![]() No one was lonely or too unhappy or stressed. Researchers who studied the Rosetans concluded that the Rosetans’ traditional, cohesive family and community relationships were sustaining them. So how did they manage to stay so freakishly healthy and long-lived? They also faced the stress of discrimination from their neighbors. Rosetans smoked poisonous cigars, drank wine freely, worked in toxic environments, cooked their sausages in lard, and ate cheeses loaded with the worst kind of cholesterol. In the 1960s, doctors found that a close-knit homogenous Italian-American community in Roseto, Pennsylvania, had an unusually low mortality rate from myocardial infarction (heart attack), compared to neighboring communities. One sentence does not an article make, however, so allow me to elaborate, with the help of some anecdotes and scientific studies: The Long-Lived Pennsylvanian Pioneers Here it is: If you want to kill yourself without actually doing yourself bodily injury… I can answer the question from the headline in one sentence. “Close-up of wilting rose flowers” by Silvestri Matteo on Unsplash ![]()
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