I had to add this.:-) I remember seeing a 60 Minutes show on them (high in the Andes), and they interviewed the oldest lady there( like 182 or something). Curiously, I remember her saying that their longevity came from a flower which blossomed at a certain time, and if you breathed the frangrance, it gave you long life.

So it wasn't the diet according to her.... and the question then becomes if the "balogna-eating-man" went there to live, and breathed the flower fragrance, would it work for him too? :-)