We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
I would suggest politely and respectfully that his perspective on the Blue Zones is incorrect and that he's hyper-focused on the the diets of the Blue Zones and I would argue the Blue Zones are a series of cherry-picked you know blue is out because there are plenty of places in the world that people have very exceptional longevity where they eat a lot of meat like the Iceland yeah or the Nicoya region of Costa Rica where the males have exceptional longevity
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in Hong Kong the life expectancy is 85 years and they are the third largest consumer of beef in the world they eat 1.5 pounds of meat a day so for people to suggest that the absence of meat is associated with longevity doesn't hold up in my opinion
first of all this is t colin campbell stuff dan buettner missed all the other regions of the world where people have exceptional longevity because they didn't fit his hypothesis what about hong kong where people live a very long time and eat tons of meat every day what about iceland where the majority of their diet is animal based because they live at such a high latitude and they have a very high number of centenarians these were left out of the blue zones
blue zones are they're cherry-picked there are many regions of the world with increasing longevity relative to general population that are left out and across all of the blue zones meat is eaten widely and with gusto
the population of hong kong has one of the largest longest life expectancies in the world it's around 85 years last time i checked and they are number three per capita in terms of meat consumption at 1.5 pounds per day
one of the ones you point out is not the diet of the blue zones which we know has been mischaracterized or I think has been mischaracterized I think you would agree with that considering they eat meat in most of all the blue zones except for perhaps Loma Linda
this is just two examples of places in the world we can find many pockets where meat is eaten uh with enjoyment with in large amounts around the world that are left out of this concept of Blue Zone so from the beginning we can raise our hands and say Good Old Dan how'd you pick those five this this smacks of little anel Keys cherry picking if you ask me