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Life in a Blue Zone

A centenarian sits at the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea in a blue zone - one of the 5 areas of greatest longevity in the world

Certain places on the planet have a higher concentration of centenarians. Here’s what researchers know about them.  Fact checked by Shannon Sparks Italian longevity researchers in the 1990s discovered something remarkable: A mountainous province on the island of Sardinia had an unusually high number of people over 100.  As researchers marked each centenarian’s location on a […]