Greece

Greek island named as one of best places to live longer

A little known island in Greece has been named as one of the world’s top spots in terms of living longer. The island of Ikaria, some 30 miles off the coast of Turkey in the Aegean Sean, has been named one of the world’s five Blue Zones where people live measurably longer lives.

The zones have been identified by demographics researcher Dan Buettner and National Geographic as places where people reach the age of 100 at rates 10 times greater than in the United States. Their latest research found that people on Icaria are two and a half times more likely to reach the age of 90 than Americans and are living roughly a decade longer than the rest of Europe before succumbing to illnesses associated with old age. [click to continue…]

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