By Hugo Francisco de Souza – News Medical Life Sciences –
In Western Finland, the longest-lived region thrives without following classic Blue Zone habits, while another community shows promising lifestyle patterns, challenging the idea that there’s only one path to a long and healthy life.
Since their description in 1999 by Poulain and colleagues, “Blue Zones”, geographical regions characterized by the unusual longevity of their inhabitants, have been identified worldwide. However, the Blue Zone framework has never explicitly investigated the Nordic areas. In a recent study published in the Journal of Aging Research, researchers evaluated four regions within Western Finland to see if any have the lifestyle principles typically associated with Blue Zones.
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