Valter Longo grew up in a village in Calabria called Molochio, famous for being a so-called ‘blue zone’ – an area where the locals were known to live exceptionally long lives and to suffer lower rates of chronic disease.
In recent years, the town’s abundance of centenarians has become a curiosity for the likes National Geographic – and what has emerged is a story of people who eating mainly beans and fruit, and no red meat.
