Lifestyle and living to the age of 105

We are visiting several temples during our stay in Udaipur and we have a guide named Ajay who drives us there and also explains the sometimes mystifying protocol around temple visits. Things like covered shoulders; hair tied back if its long; who to give rupees to and who to not give rupees to; how to buy prasad (flower and fruit offerings) to offer at the various shrines; where you can take photos and where it is not allowed. In fact, at the Krishna temple we visited yesterday, we had to turn in our cell phones and our shoes outside of the temple gates.  One always has to leave shoes outside temples but cell phones was a new thing.  That was a little worrisome but all went well.  Indians are becoming increasingly protective of their amazing heritage and don't like westerners coming and grabbing sacred artifacts whether physically or via images.  One of our friends in Tiruvanamalai told us that the Indians can see right away, when a westerner arrives, whether they are attuned to the sacredness of a site or just there to greedily gobble impression food that they won't be able to understand or assimilate.
But wait! This post was supposed to be about lifestyle and long life.
OK....back on track.
Ajay's father died a year ago at the age of 105. I asked Ajay why he lived so long? Did he have any special health practices? Ajay assured me that he did not. And in fact he smoked and drank. But -said Ajay - he lived in a village where the air was clean and the food was free of pesticides, growth hormones, etc......basically organic fresh food. Also he had lots of community; he was not an isolated senior shut away in a ghetto for old people, aka "nursing home". And for sure he had a rich spiritual life and love for God.
So! That was inspiring. I think I had better start smoking since I already have the great good fortune to live where the air is clean and I already have the privilege of eating clean organic food. There is definitely room in my life for more community. But I think that is true for pretty much everybody I know back home in the sense that we tend to live in nuclear pods, alone or with just one or a few others. It is just so different here.
I do feel heartache for the conditions in which people live here, in the cites, which is where the majority of the population lives. The air is TERRIBLE and the noise level is incredibly loud. I am doing fine because I am just visiting. But Ajay and his family do not get to return to clean air and fresh food.
OK ....signing off for now......thanks for reading.