In 1999, writer Dan Buettner read an article from the World Health Organization that revealed that people in Okinawa, Japan had the longest disability-free life expectancy in the world. …
Four years later, he read a Danish Twin Study showing that just 20% of how long we live is determined by genes. “I reasoned there must be other heterogenous populations with extreme longevity,” he tells The Post.
” , Buettner revisits the five places on earth he identified — or “Blue Zones” — where the locals live significantly longer than anywhere else on the planet: Nuoro in Sardinia, Italy, Ikaria in Greece, Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, Okinawa in Japan and Loma Linda in California. But as Buettner explains, life in the Blue Zones is also changing as the arrival of ultra-processed food and high fats, sugar, and salt — coupled with access to the convenience of modern technology like cell phones — alters the fundamental nature of the inhabitants’ lifestyles.“Most of the longevity phenomena in the Blue Zones will be gone within a half generation,” says Buettner. “But we know the blueprint and that survives.
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