In this new six-part series, Jamie Oliver is travelling to some of the healthiest places in the world to uncover the secrets of how people there live longer and healthier lives.
EPISODE 1
Costa Rica & Greece
Jamie visits the Nicoyan Peninsula in Costa Rica where living to 100 isn’t unusual and on the Greek island of Ikaria, where people on average live ten years longer than elsewhere in Europe.
EPISODE 2
Costa Rica & Okinawa
In this programme, Jamie’s in the Nicoyan Peninsula in Costa Rica. And in Okinawa, an island 400 miles off the coast of Japan that Jamie joins 74-year-old Grand Karate Master Sensie.
EPISODE 3
Greece & Japan
Jamie’s in the Greek island of Ikaria. In Okinawa, a Japanese island that has one of the longest-lived populations on the planet, Jamie joins local people, including a 93-year-old.
EPISODE 4
Greece & Costa Rica
Jamie’s on the Greek island of Ikaria, where people live a decade longer on average and 60% of 90-year-olds are still physically active. And he heads to a Costa Rican cattle ranch to eat black beans.
EPISODE 5
Okinawa & Costa Rica
Jamie’s on the Japanese island of Okinawa, home to some of the oldest people on the planet. He harvests and eats seaweed, a super food packed with immune system-boosting iron, in Okinawa.
EPISODE 6
On the Greek island of Ikaria Jamie finds out how whole grain cracked wheat. On the Japanese island of Okinawa, Jamie discovers the super food secrets.
Jamie Oliver
Martha Delap
Chloe Court
Nicola Pointer