"Blue Zones" exhibit patterns indicative of pension fraud

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v3

by cwwc • 2 years ago

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jncfhnb• 2 years ago

supercentenarian birthdates are concentrated on days divisible by five

Very funny

Terretta• 2 years ago

Except for two...

“The two remaining blue zones, Loma Linda and the Nicoya Peninsula, are considered exceptional due to their high average longevity rather than the presence of the oldest-old.”

That said, the study cites a CDC look at the area that showed the area-wide average was not higher. It's not clear if this tells us we cannot learn anything from Loma Linda cases, since the original thesis for longevity in this area was a particular subset of community practicing health consciousness since the late 1800s, not the area itself nor the community at large.

nivertech• 2 years ago

[1], [2], or a combination of both?

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loma_Linda,_California#Water_c...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loma_Linda,_California#Seventh...

Havoc• 2 years ago

So I can eat pizza instead of salad after all?

more_corn• 2 years ago

Also places where record keeping was interrupted or inadequate. It seems that the whole science of longevity needs to be thrown out or at least held in the purgatory of probably false pending proof it’s not.

pygar• 2 years ago

The author of this paper recently won an ig nobel award for this research. Here is an interesting interview with him: https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing...

Log_out_• 2 years ago

its a cool cultural study for society wide acceptance of pension fraud

"Blue Zones" exhibit patterns indicative of pension fraud

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