Blue regions: Why are the hot points of life in the world may not be everything that seems to be star-news.press/wp

Walk on the Ogliastra beaches in Sardinia, an Italian island with crystalline water and pink hills flowers, you will see families eating fresh fish, people working on the ground and older husbands wandering in the hills.

You may also see an extraordinary number of percentage. This region of Italy is one of three narrative provinces that forms a blue region – a handful of regions in the world with a large number of elderly people inappropriately. These areas are greatly estimated by researchers who are keen to detect genetic factors and lifestyle that affect the longevity. But not everyone is convinced.

“The biggest secret of blue areas is that they are not present,” he says. Saul Newman At the University of London. Newman recently threw pain in decades of allegations that centenary can be found in five blue areas. He says that the data behind these claims cannot be verified and it seems that they are full of errors – and sometimes explicit fraud. Demographic population who spent their career in investigating blue areas, and others who have created profitable commercial projects around these areas, suffer from claims.

The epic recently struck its lowest new levels. Relationships between an outlet Blue District Project Dismantling, and sciences and New York Times I recently mentioned that a pioneering voice in the project – a journalist And BuettnerWhich was written in 2005 National Geographic condition This is popular with the concept of blue regions – only included a site in the United States to satisfy the editor. However, Buettner claimed that he was wrong at this point.

So, is there evidence of …