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How One Greek Island Has Discovered The Secret To A Longer Life

How One Greek Island Has Discovered The Secret To A Longer Life
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Huff/Post 50 Editor, The Huffington Post

On a 255 square kilometre sliver of land in the southeastern Aegean Sea, about 10 hours by boat from Athens, residents appear to defy death.

For a little while longer than the rest of the world at least.

Welcome to Ikaria, sometimes referred to in Greek as “longevity heaven” or “the island, where people forget to die”.

Ikarians outlive Europeans, Americans and basically most people on this planet and they have the scientific data to prove it. 

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