The centenarians They live more in remote and disadvantaged areasThis is what a new study says that alerts us to what could happen. The data we have taken into account so far may be wrong. We can pay attention to diet and lifestyle, which may have nothing to do with living longer, quite the opposite. It is time to visualize some changes that are clear in this change of cycle that we are observing, the human being has reached 100 years earlier, so perhaps the past is more reliable than the present.
The Romans reached the age of 100 and they were not the only ones, nor the first. Our current society is more numerous and suffers from more diseases than it ever seems. The knowledge acquired over these thousands of years, but also the arrival of certain elements that perhaps we would never have imagined would be so negative, have hit this life expectancy. So we must put into practice some details that will be essential. This new study changes everything, centenarians live in remote and disadvantaged areas.
This study changes everything
THE the truth always, sooner or later, ends up coming to light. Until recently, we were aware of a series of elements that go hand in hand and that could end up making a difference in every way. Now, everything has changed in terms of longevity.
Some blue zones, those with more than 100 people, could be fake. Data could be manipulated, birth certificates altered, and deaths recorded so that people lived until the administration realized they didn’t exist.
A change that could end up destroying longevity guidelines that seem to have some remarkable elements or that we thought were. The reality is that the lifestyles we thought were essential to living longer may not be.
Time has become an element that we never get tired of. Nobody wants to get off this ferris wheel on which we move at full speed. That is why this expert has discovered that it warns us that we cannot achieve everything.
Centenarians live in remote and disadvantaged areas.
The reality is that centenarians do not live in the center of a big city nor do they have high incomes. Those who live the longest are those who have lived in remote areas. Something that perhaps we would never have imagined until now, but also some details that affect longevity are dismantled.
People may be living longer in some areas than we ever imagined. This is what Dr Saul Justin Newman (UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has sounded the alarm.
As this expert tells us: “The pinnacle of this is the Blue Zones, which are regions where people are supposed to reach age 100 at a remarkable rate. For almost 20 years, they’ve been marketed to the general public. They’ve been the subject of tons of scientific research, a popular Netflix documentary, tons of cookbooks on things like the Mediterranean diet, and that’s what happened. Okinawa, Japan, is one of those regions. A 2010 Japanese government study found that 82 percent of people in Japan over the age of 100 had died. The secret to living to 110 was not to register your death. The Japanese government conducted one of the largest nutritional surveys in the world, going back to 1975. From then until today, Okinawa has had the worst health situation in Japan. They ate fewer vegetables; “They were very heavy drinkers.”
The same explanation continues: “The same goes for all the other Blue Zones. Eurostat tracks life expectancy in Sardinia, the Italian Blue Zone and Ikaria in Greece. When the agency started keeping records in 1990, Sardinia had the 51st highest life expectancy of elderly people in Europe out of 128 regions, and Ikaria was 109 years old. The cognitive dissonance that occurs is incredible. Among the Greeks, by my estimates, at least 72% of centenarians were dead, missing or mainly in cases of pension fraud.
In addition to pension fraud, there are people who don’t remember their age: “You’d be surprised. Looking at data from the UK Biobank, even middle-aged people generally don’t remember their age or how old they were when they had their children. There are similar statistics in the US.
What seems to affect how old we will be is money: “It is very likely that longevity is related to wealth. The rich exercise a lot, have little stress, and eat well. I just published a preprint analyzing the last 72 years of UN mortality data. The places that consistently hit 100 at the highest rate according to the UN are Thailand, Malawi, Western Sahara (which has no government), and Puerto Rico, where birth certificates were completely revoked as a legal document in 2010 because they were riddled with fraud.”
