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Malicious no, suspicious yes. There likely were parts of the world a century ago without accurate records. It also appears that supercentenarians are concentrat
by VintageCool 4y ago
Malicious no, suspicious yes. There likely were parts of the world a century ago without accurate records. It also appears that supercentenarians are concentrated in places that didn't keep accurate birth records around the time they were born.
There have been people who attempted to adopt the diets of the "blue zones" where many supercentenarians have lived, but maybe in our search for long life we should have been adopting regional poverty, low incomes, and dodgy record-keeping!
- ip26 4y agoIt is perfectly possible to be correlated. People almost universally eat more meat as they gain wealth. So if a diet of mostly plants really was the way to go, you aren’t going to find it in upper Manhattan.
- kijin 4y agoWe need to look for patterns in the birth records of people born around the same time in the same area, but who died at a "normal" age. If the same patterns occur in both cases, it's just lossy record-keeping. If not, there might be something dodgy about the supercentenarians in particular. Without a proper control group, it's all speculation.