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briandwyesterday at 11:21 PM3 repliesview on HN

The secret to extreme long life is bad record keeping.


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hn_throwaway_99yesterday at 11:54 PM

Yeah, I agree that the "Blue Zone" theory is mostly explained by bad record keeping. Okinawa is one of the poorest areas of Japan, but was deemed a Blue Zone, despite that wealth is nearly always positively correlated with longevity within similar cultures. Low and behold Okinawa had shitty record keeping and tons of incentives for relatives to commit pension fraud.

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presumptinatortoday at 12:02 AM

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