People have been speculating about why the 'blue zones' of the world have such old populations This preprint offers a fascinating new hypothesis - simple recording errors and/or fraud https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1 …
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"The introduction of complete vital registration in the USA...was expected to result in a large increase in the number of supercentenarian records per capita. Instead [it] coincides with a sharp (82%) reduction in the number of supercentenarians"pic.twitter.com/zbPLMrIqRd
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Elsewhere, the highest number of supercentenarian records are associated with increased rates of smoking, drinking, and povertypic.twitter.com/5MXBfgPtGO
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If this explanation is true, it will really throw a wrench in ~decades~ of health speculation and quite a bit of research
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Seriously, there are entire schools dedicated to examining blue zones and applying them to elsewhere in the world People have spent hundreds of millions researching blue zone hypotheses This could be ~huge~pic.twitter.com/iBo76dj5vK
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That investment of dollars is exactly why this line of thinking won’t go away so quickly. With the profit potential of processed plant based foods the truth won’t easily be heard
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Add to that the fact that blue zones have been used to justify every hypothesis under the sun, and it makes for a big issue indeed
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Replying to @GidMK
Sometimes the more popular the idea, the less likely it’s true
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