For decades, Okinawa has prided itself as a hot spot for longevity. In 1999, the Japanese islands were listed as one of five ...

“Blue Zones” are geographic areas with lower rates of chronic diseases and longer life expectancy. Diet, fasting, and exercise are factors associated with Blue Zones. Italy, Greece ...

However, research suggests that more people might be moving away from the emphasis on meat this year, as meat-free, plant-centered diets, like those seen in the Blue Zones, become more popular. But ...

Our culture has become obsessed with “blue zones,” where people purportedly live longer. But does the underlying research ...

According to Saul Newman, blue zones, the areas of the world where people live to be more than 100 years old, are nonsense. Image:The village of Armenistis, Ikaria, Greece, one of the blue zones of ...

The concept of blue zones, first popularized by Dan Buettner in 2005, introduced the idea that certain regions around the world were home to exceptional longevity. These areas, which Buettner ...

They’re probably lying. A researcher in England has identified a bureaucratic fatal flaw in the world’s “Blue Zones” — regions believed to be home to the planet’s populations with the ...

“Both legumes and nuts figure prominently in the blue-zone diet, and peanuts (technically a legume, not a nut) are a great example of a Blue Zone friendly food because when eaten raw or roasted ...

This map shows accessible parking locations, marked as blue zones.