Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Michelle Gross is a seasoned travel journalist based in Beaufort, SC. Roughly 400-miles off the coast of Japan’s southernmost region of ...

Now, researchers are questioning the idea of blue zones and whether or not places like Okinawa, Japan and Loma Linda, California actually have the number of centenarians that has been reported.

This includes Okinawa Prefecture in Japan ... of residents of blue zones, which are named for the blue markers researchers used to indicate the areas of study on maps. Buettner and colleagues ...

Blue Zones are found across the world, from Costa Rica to Japan, Greece, and California. One thing they all have in common is a love of beans, from garbanzos to tofu and black beans. Beans are ...

Examples of blue zones include Okinawa in Japan, Loma Linda in California, Sardinia in Italy and Ikaria in Greece. These areas have been studied in detail to understand why their people live such ...

The five blue zone locations he pinpointed are: Ikaria, Greece Loma Linda, California Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica Okinawa, Japan Sardinia, Italy It has been suggested that people in these five ...

Simply put, the world’s blue zones are the five places where people live the longest – and most importantly, see extreme old age in with good health. These are Okinawa, Japan; Loma Linda ...

who had drawn blue circles around these regions on a map of the world, thus deriving the name “Blue Zones.” Buettner and his team, including Pes and Poulain, extended their explorations to ...