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One thing to be careful with “Blue Zones” is that a lot of blue zones didn’t have that great record keeping, especially 50-100 years ago. Unlike modern develop
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
One thing to be careful with “Blue Zones” is that a lot of blue zones didn’t have that great record keeping, especially 50-100 years ago.
Unlike modern developed countries where we have pretty good records of the exact moment of birth for people, in a lot of areas in the past, there could be a lot of guesstimating about the actual age of someone.
- throwawaygh 5y agoYeah, places without great record keeping when people were born, but with fantastic age-contingent state pensions today. What actually unifies the blue zones is the ability and incentive to fudge numbers.
- Someone 5y agohttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1: “Supercentenarians and the oldest-old are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates and short lifespans” To me, that looks pretty damning to the theory that blue zones somehow are good for longevity.