The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest
by Dan Buettner
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Author: Dan BuettnerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-25
ISBN: 1426202741
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: National Geographic
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Book Review: Shallow and Anecdotal
Summary: 1 Stars
Finding groups of humans who have lived over 100 years concentrated in different areas sounded like an interesting subject for a book. Unfortunately this author did not follow up his initial idea with any kind of scholarly study. Instead he just went and visited a very small number of individuals in each area and presented accounts of each interview. The results cannot be of any real significance. Consider the diets involved. The Sardinians eat sheep and drink a liter of red wine per day. The Okinawans eat sweet potatoes whilst the Costa Ricans eat pork, beans and corn tortillas. On the other hand the 7th Day Adventists of Southern California are vegetarians!
It would have been useful to see more data, for example, histograms of proportion of population living say to 60 years of age, then 70 , then 80 etc to see if these groups of centenarians are truly exceptional due to genetic reasons or lifestyle.
Conclusions: Disappointing but a good idea for a shoot!
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