Do people in ‘blue zones’ actually live longer?

“Every indication was that these high densities of supercentenarians were just down to poverty and fraud,” said Dr Saul Justin Newman (UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies), on his work highlighting the shortcomings in data around the study of people living past 105 years of age.

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