101-year-old Fauja Singh Runs the London Marathon - Horizon: Eat, Fast and Live Longer - BBC Two

there are plenty of people who stay young and fit well beyond retirement age they mainly do it the traditional way through lots and lots of exercise today I've come to the London Marathon nearly 36 thousand bodies of all shapes and sizes but tackling the 26 mile course some were young many not so young there's an absolutely fantastic atmosphere here now all I have never run marathon and I have no plans to ever run the marathon but there are plenty of people running today who Forel than me there are seven thousand people in their 50s and incredibly enough there are seven people who are in their 80s or older I'm going to try and flag a few of them down to ask how they do it the whole d78 I'm healthier thank you one plus the secret running as it wanted just eating well that's all anyone who can run a marathon in their 70s deserves my respect but I'm waiting for a man who makes septuagenarians look youthful Baljit Singh is amazing he has been active all his life but he only took up serious running in his 80s so what is it that keeps him so remarkably fit and energetic hi there Carmel Owen that's the fear but how old is furture 101 gone now I'm 1st of April 1911 unfortunately he hasn't quite mastered the English language yet you might ask him how he's feeling but then it was you so you can rely on them keep your man and he told me if I'm at the music I mean because it's not easy yeah but the thing is it's copy the table could be dinosaur physics do we give up oh yeah although he's a hundred and one voucher has never had surgery he shows no signs of heart disease and he takes no medication he believes that his long life and his incredible health is down to his diet so any particular diet he has no particular diet it's a simple punjabi farmers divert just fresh food very secretive he has smaller portions right in poor countries people die starvation in rich countries people die overeating so how much does he eat say compared to you or I he would eat be considered half a portion almost a child so child portions probably about half the amount of calories your I would eat by restricting his food intake so dramatically felcher has unknowingly been testing a theory that has been around nearly as long as he has a scientific theory which is only now really coming into its own I've taken the tube to the finish line I want to catch Voucher become hopefully the world's oldest marathon runner and after seven hours and 49 minutes he succeeds thank you gradually here that he's actually verbal he 101 years old and he has just covered 26 miles now I can't imagine that in 50 years time I'm going to be running down the mall but I want to be like him I want to be mentally active and I want to be physically active I want to stay younger for longer

Channel: BBC

Views: 243,524

Rating: 4.9073172 out of 5

Keywords: ''Fauja, Singh'', ''London, Marathon'', ''Horizon, Eat, Fast, and, Live, Longer'', ''BBC, Two'', ''Michael, Mosley''

Id: gCY0Xx92YvQ

Length: 5min 33sec (333 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 06 2012

Reddit Comments

[u/SirLoondry]

With all due respect, Fauja Singh is British

The distinction is important because in GB he gets a lot of support to do such things that you're unlikely to find in India. Let's not co-opt everything and everyone with Indian links as "Indian".