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by teruakohatu 1434 days ago
Half the residents of that town are 7th Day Adventists according to Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loma_Linda,_California

Blue zones could simply be a result of The modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifiable_areal_unit_proble...

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7th Day Adventists have food and lifestyle differences from the surrounding population. They are the ones living longer. There have been a bunch of ongoing long term studies on them.

One of the findings is that diet matters. They’ve looked at diet differences and certain characteristics show up for people who live longer and have more good years. Those same things show up in the other blue zones.