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Village where one in 10 residents live to be 100...
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk, By Abe HawkenScientists have spent the last six months researching why residents living in Acciaroli, a tiny village on the west coast of Italy - 90 miles south of Naples - live for so long.
Experts have commented on their healthy diet and added that the sexual activity with the elderly living in the village 'appears to be rampant'.
And as a result, locals also seem to be largely immune from heart disease, dementia and other conditions associated with ageing in the rest of the Western world.
More than one in 10 - 81 at the mayor's last count - of the village's population of 700 has passed the century mark.
Local Antonio Vassalo, 100, referred to the health benefits of a Mediterranean diet based on olive oil, vegetables, fish and a fresh fruit.
He said: 'We only eat healthy stuff.'
His wife Amina, 93, added: 'We eat a lot of fish, fresh produce from the countryside that we grow ourselves.
'We have our own rabbits, our chickens. Only local products. And olive oil: we consume what we produce.'
Experts from Rome's Sapienza University and the San Diego School of Medicine will unveil their findings at a conference in the village today.
Acciaroli is part of the Cilento coast, a largely industry-free area of outstanding natural beauty that now has national park protected status.