Blue zone facts for kids
Blue zones are regions in the world where people are claimed to live, or to have recently lived, longer than average.
Five blue zones suggested are: Okinawa Prefecture, Japan; Nuoro Province, Sardinia, Italy; the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; Icaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California, United States.
History
An elderly Sardinian man
The concept of blue zones resulted from demographic work done by Gianni Pes and Michel Poulain, published in 2004. They identified Sardinia's Nuoro Province as the region with the highest concentration of male centenarians, referring to the area as the "blue zone".
Building on this demographic work, Dan Buettner proposed four additional locations: Okinawa, Nicoya, Icaria, and Loma Linda.
Zones
The areas having been identified as blue zones:
- Nuoro Province, Sardinia, Italy
- Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
- Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
- Icaria, Greece
- Loma Linda, California, United States
See also
- AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project
- Alameda County Study
- Longevity
- Centenarian
- Supercentenarian
- Research into centenarians
- Gerontology Research Group
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