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We’re all living longer, but Mediterraneans live longest in EU, says Eurostat – POLITICO

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      Relevant research that just won an ig nobel prize.

      tl;dr: they don't live longer, they just don't report their dead relatives and pocket the pensions.

      https://www.medicalrepublic.com.au/maybe-its-the-mediterranean-diet-maybe-its-pension-fraud/110766

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        Relevant research that just won an ig nobel prize.

        tl;dr: they don't live longer, they just don't report their dead relatives and pocket the pensions.

        https://www.medicalrepublic.com.au/maybe-its-the-mediterranean-diet-maybe-its-pension-fraud/110766

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        The blue zone’s fraudulent claims has debunked:

        https://youtu.be/4NKT_Eu0BEI

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          The blue zone’s fraudulent claims has debunked:

          https://youtu.be/4NKT_Eu0BEI

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          Hmm, are youtube videos peer-reviewed?

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            Hmm, are youtube videos peer-reviewed?

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            Check the studies below. There’s a meta analysis included.

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              Relevant research that just won an ig nobel prize.

              tl;dr: they don't live longer, they just don't report their dead relatives and pocket the pensions.

              https://www.medicalrepublic.com.au/maybe-its-the-mediterranean-diet-maybe-its-pension-fraud/110766

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              This maybe a bit, but it's hard to do, you have to hide the bodies of your deceased ones, it's not so easy.

              Low natality plays a more important factor, it's hard for people to die young, if there aren't many young people anymore.

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                It's obviously because we work the most hours and rest the less.

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                  This maybe a bit, but it's hard to do, you have to hide the bodies of your deceased ones, it's not so easy.

                  Low natality plays a more important factor, it's hard for people to die young, if there aren't many young people anymore.

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                  you have to hide the bodies of your deceased ones

                  From whom? There are people living alone who die in their homes and aren't discovered for months, even years. If you have a caretaker and you pass away (and the caretaker relies on your pension to pay their bills) it is trivial to just... not say anything and keep collecting the pension. In a system suffering administrative decay, wherein the elderly are already obfuscated and ignored, there are few real means of physically validating whether an individual is alive or dead.

                  Low natality plays a more important factor, it’s hard for people to die young, if there aren’t many young people anymore.

                  True, but you can weight for natality in your statistics already. The "Blue Zone" hypothesis focuses on the parts of the population already older than 60, typically with an eye towards people who are lifelong residents. That much of the methodology is sound.

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                    It's obviously because we work the most hours and rest the less.

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                    If you ask me it's because non mediteranian winters are disgusting.

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                      https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250314-3

                      The Eurostat page looks much better in terms of the information it provides.

                      Even better: Eurostat | Statistics Explained | Mortality and life expectancy statistics

                      Life expectancy at birth has risen rapidly during the past century due to a number of factors. These include a reduction in infant mortality, rising living standards, improved lifestyles and better education, as well as advances in healthcare and medicine. Official statistics reveal that life expectancy has risen, on average, by more than two years per decade since the 1960s. In 2020, however, after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, this indicator declined in 25 EU countries compared to 2019, the exceptions being Denmark and Cyprus. In 2023, life expectancy at birth was equal to or higher than in 2019 in 21 EU countries. By contrast life expectancy fell in 6 EU countries: Finland (-0.5 years), the Netherlands (-0.3 years), Germany (-0.2 years) to Italy, Latvia and Austria (all -0.1 years).

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