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Right - this hopefully isn't too nit-picky because it wasn't the focus of the article, but this is probably more about the author's stereotypes about what is he
by oh_sigh 6y ago
Right - this hopefully isn't too nit-picky because it wasn't the focus of the article, but this is probably more about the author's stereotypes about what is healthy versus what is actually healthy. If you look at the longest lived people in the world (e.g. blue zone people), they don't control their diet with "surgical precision", and they don't sculpt themselves in state of the art gyms, and they don't rely on sensors to tell them how their body is doing.
They generally just eat a variety of simple foods in moderation, and perform low impact, longer lasting light exercises like walking or calisthenics.
- PaulHoule 6y agoMy understanding is that those "longest lived people" are in places that had bad vital records to begin with or had them destroyed in a war and that the long lived people backdated their birth date to avoid the draft or otherwise cheat.
- pjc50 6y agoWasn't the "oldest living Japanese person" discovered to have died several years previously when they went to give her an award? Possibly on multiple occasions?
- teddyh 6y agoYes: https://satwcomic.com/respect-your-elders https://satwcomic.com/respect-your-elders “Sogen Kato was believed to be the oldest man in Tokyo up until 2010 when officials finally entered his apartment and realized that he had died at the age of 79 in 1978. His death had been kept a secret by his family who were collecting his pension. This lead to a huge search for all people over 100 years, and it turned out that Japan couldn't document the whereabouts of 234,354 supposed centenarians.”