I know fish has its laundry list of benefits, but surely consuming a large amount can have detrimental effects due to mercury, microplastics and PCBs, yet it doesn’t seem to affect blue zones like Okinawa where their citizens outlive most other nations (with a large amount of centenarians) and consume large amounts of fish.
Why is this?
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[Japanese people are notorious for lying about the “alive” status of their relatives to cash in on their pension.](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10809128#:~:text=Tokyo%27s%20%27oldest%20man%27%20had%20been%20dead%20for%2030,uncovered%20mummified%20skeletal%20remains%20lying%20in%20his%20bed.)
On multiple occasions, people have gone to congratulate the new oldest person in the world only to find they had died decades earlier.
This skews the stats a bit.
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