Blue zones are regions on Earth where the local human population enjoys exceptionally long average life spans. Author and explorer Dan Buettner has studied ...
========== Blue Zones areas are populations around the
world where people live longest. It began with a ten year project with National Geographic
to identify these pockets where people are either reaching age 100 at the highest rates.
They have the highest life expectancy or the lowest rate of middle age mortality. They’re
geographically defined and then demographically confirmed. And we found five Blue Zones. We found our first Blue Zone in Sardinia,
Italy up in the highlands. The Nuoro and Ogliastra Provinces and there we see a population of
about 42,000 people living in 14 villages. And there is where men live the longest. Normally
in First World populations like the United States for every one male centenarian there
are five female centenarians. But up in the highlands of Sardinia the proportion...