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This small town's secret to longevity had nothing to do with diet
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In the 1960s, a small Pennsylvania town called Roseto had half the national rate of heart disease — and zero recorded heart attack deaths for men under 55. They smoked, ate pasta and sausages, and drank wine. Scientists were baffled.
What they found changed everything we thought we knew about health.
Link to the study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1636828/
Chapters
00:00 Meet Roseto: the town that shouldn't have been healthy
01:49 The shocking discovery: heart disease stats that defied logic
02:11 What scientists found when they investigated
02:33 The real answer: it was culture all along
03:35 When the community unraveled, so did the health advantage
04:05 What the Roseto Effect means for us today
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