A Blue Zone is an area where many people live to be 100 or older due to diet. Examples or areas of southern Italy and Okinawa.
This researcher says this is not the case. Cases of people living over 100 are caused by pension fraud. The person has died but someone else is still claiming the pension.
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Okinawa in Japan is one of these zones. There was a Japanese government review in 2010, which found that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead. The secret to living to 110 was, don’t register your death.
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This researcher says this is not the case. Cases of people living over 100 are caused by pension fraud. The person has died but someone else is still claiming the pension.
Extract here:
Okinawa in Japan is one of these zones. There was a Japanese government review in 2010, which found that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead. The secret to living to 110 was, don’t register your death.
Source here:
‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman
Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.
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