Okinawan men fell from first to 43rd while women slipped to 16th in the last life expectancy survey, a slide that is expected ...

NAHA, Okinawa — A Japanese court has awarded about $16.3 million to Okinawans affected by Kadena Air Base aircraft noise, the latest ruling in a long-running series of lawsuits over noise from U.S.

Regions known as blue zones are genuine areas where people live longer and are far more likely to reach 100, according to a ...

'One of the simplest, most practical rules for weight loss and longevity [is to] stop snacking. You don't need constant ...

The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life; Author: Hector Garcia & Francesc Miralles; Publisher: Hutchinson/Penguin Random House; Pages: 208; Price: Rs 499 A British businessman once recounted that ...

Blue zones are where people live longer lives and remain fitter into old age ...

Demonstrators gather in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan on August 22, 2024 to protest against the relocation of US Marine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue zones stand up to scrutiny in major scientific rebuttal on extreme longevity. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) For decades, ...

For decades, researchers have pointed to “blue zones” as rare places where people often reach very old age in good health. Now, a new peer-reviewed paper in The Gerontologist offers a detailed ...

The '80 percent rule', also known as 'Hara Hachi Bu', is a dietary habit that some people in a Blue Zone swear by ...