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the longevity secret

2026-10-06 21:05:43.16875+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Since Blue Zones sucks up a lot of grant money in our town for ... outcomes? ... this seems very worth a link. Be sure to scroll down to the Ignobel acceptance speech in rhyme: Dr Saul Newman has uncovered the “secret” to living to 110.

“I'm being asked a lot about the Mediterranean diet at the moment. The Mediterranean diet came about when someone went to southern Italy and noticed a lot of centenarians on the books. Why are they on the books in southern Italy where people have relatively short lives, and not in northern Italy, where people actually have relatively long lives?”

Is it the minestrone soup?

“No, it's probably got a lot to do with bad record-keeping and the mafia. Because that's where pension fraud happens. In 1997, there were 30,000 ‘living’ pension recipients found to be dead in Italy. And, to bring out an old cliche, that's the tip of the iceberg.”

Via and a quote toot of that.

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