The Island Where People Forget to Die

don't think for a minute i'm a regular N.Y. [must be high to read it] Times reader, but even a blind squirrel[them] can find a nut ever now n then.


The project grew out of studies by my partners, Dr. Gianni Pes of the University of Sassari in Italy and Dr. Michel Poulain, a Belgian demographer. In 2000, they identified a region of Sardinia’s Nuoro province as the place with the highest concentration of male centenarians in the world. As they zeroed in on a cluster of villages high in Nuoro’s mountains, they drew a boundary in blue ink on a map and began referring to the area inside as the “blue zone.” Starting in 2002, we identified three other populations around the world where people live measurably longer lives than everyone else


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-...
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