{"id":123227,"date":"2021-05-31T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/can-the-blue-zone-diet-lead-to-life-extension"},"modified":"2021-05-31T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T17:23:07","slug":"can-the-blue-zone-diet-lead-to-life-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/can-the-blue-zone-diet-lead-to-life-extension","title":{"rendered":"Can the Blue Zone Diet Lead to Life Extension?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-the-blue-zone-diet-lead-to-life-extension.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TIL a preprint publication points to another commonality found in blue zones: their lack of birth records. Author Dr. Saul Justin Newman concludes, \u201cthe designated \u2018blue zones\u2019 of Sardinia, Okinawa, and Icaria corresponded to regions with low incomes, low literacy, high crime rate and short life expectancy relative to their national average. As such, relative poverty and short lifespan constitute unexpected predictors of centenarian and supercentenarian status, and support a primary role of fraud and error in generating remarkable human age records.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Can the blue zone diet help with longevity? We investigate Dan Buettner\u2019s claims about blue zones and the corresponding lifestyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIL a preprint publication points to another commonality found in blue zones: their lack of birth records. Author Dr. Saul Justin Newman concludes, \u201cthe designated \u2018blue zones\u2019 of Sardinia, Okinawa, and Icaria corresponded to regions with low incomes, low literacy, high crime rate and short life expectancy relative to their national average. As such, relative [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}