Areas in Sardinia, Okinawa and Greece are supposedly home to unusual numbers of centenarians. Scientists are studying them to ...
The secret to turning 100 years old could be nestled in the diet of a small Japanese island's centenarians, as longevity ...
The Okinawa Centenarian Study, which followed residents of the Japanese village that boasts one of the world's highest ...
Highlighting the health benefits of this vibrant tuber in his Netflix series, "Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones," Dan ...
The warm, tropical islands of Okinawa, Japan, are home to a stunning number of healthy, happy, and spry centenarians who are living past the age of 100. The author Dan Buettner has spent more than ...
People living on a small island off Japan have seen a huge number of residents living past 100 and there's one food they eat ...
In Japan, where many of these centenarians live, they don’t have very good records about birth dates. Newman found that many of them are in areas around Okinawa, which was, of course ...
Roughly 400-miles off the coast of Japan’s southernmost region of Kyushu, Okinawa has long been credited with having one of the highest concentrations of centenarians in the world.
2. A variety of fruits and vegetables in each meal A study on Japanese centenarians in Okinawa found Okinawans would on average, eat seven different kinds of fruits and vegetables a day.
In the decades since, four more areas have been identified around the globe where locals apparently have an increased chance of becoming a centenarian: Okinawa in Japan; Nicoya in Costa Rica ...