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World's Hot Spots of Longevity
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ee74a564-604d-4768-bd36-a244f43b3b25/30DE7660-8E8F-4A99-B9C8-1013F53008E2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.softpedia.com/news/World-039-s-Hot-Spots-of-Longevity-84255.shtml" href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/World-039-s-Hot-Spots-of-Longevity-84255.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">news.softpedia.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.softpedia.com/news/World-039-s-Hot-Spots-of-Longevity-84255.shtml"> As of now, only 75 people (64 women and 11 men) are recorded to be 110 or older. Japan holds the world record for average longevity, with about 28,000 persons aged over 100. Japan possesses one of the longest average life spans, 85.3 years for women and 78.3 for men. The world's oldest man is also Japanese, Tomoji Tanabe, and is 111 years old.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.softpedia.com/news/World-039-s-Hot-Spots-of-Longevity-84255.shtml"> Okinawa Island is famous for the longest disability-free life expectancy in the world.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.softpedia.com/news/World-039-s-Hot-Spots-of-Longevity-84255.shtml"> Other "blue zones" are Sardinia (Italy) with the highest concentration of centenarians (mainly men) and the community of Seventh Day Adventists of Loma Linda in California, whose men live 11 years longer than the average American men do.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.softpedia.com/news/World-039-s-Hot-Spots-of-Longevity-84255.shtml"> Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica is another "blue zone" of healthy centenarians</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.softpedia.com/news/World-039-s-Hot-Spots-of-Longevity-84255.shtml"> More "blue zones" are awaiting to be discovered</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.softpedia.com/news/World-039-s-Hot-Spots-of-Longevity-84255.shtml">There may be one in Canada. If confirmed, this blue zone probably has the lowest middle-age mortality in the world</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.softpedia.com/news/World-039-s-Hot-Spots-of-Longevity-84255.shtml"><B>The Okinawa case </B></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/30DE7660-8E8F-4A99-B9C8-1013F53008E2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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