But if you don't call these longevity hotspots home, there's no need to worry. Experts recently delved into a potentially pivotal 'secret' for residents' longevity, which focuses on an approach called ...

If you want to live healthily until 100 years old, look to Okinawa, Japan.” In 2004, the U.S. weekly news magazine *Time* ...

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

The Okinawa diet is named after the traditional eating habits of the people on Japan's Okinawa island. The diet is typically low-calorie and high-carb, but modern iterations of the diet consist of ...

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

Science communicator Dan Buettner has revealed on the ZOE podcast the dietary realities found in the regions of the world ...

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

Mizuho Fukushima, leader of the Social Democratic Party, intends to highlight the minor opposition party's stance of concentrating on bettering people's lives in Japan in the upcoming election for the ...

The classic thought experiment about a horse-sized duck and a hundred duck-sized horses is more than a joke. It captures a ...

With one of the highest concentration of centenarians in the world, this luxurious and beachy Mediterranean town in Italy's ...

At that scope, creating our own Blue Zones sounds like science fiction – but on an individual level, it’s more realistic.

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 ...