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3 foods in this Costa Rican blue zone diet that help residents live to 100 - Fortune Well   

Six areas across the globe are known as the blue zones, where a combination of culture, mindset, diet, and environment help their residents live longer and healthier lives than most. 

While there isn’t a straightforward rulebook for longevity, there are key lessons from the people who live in blue zones that can help you create and stick with new habits to age healthfully. One of those lessons resides in the food culture of an 80-mile-long peninsula in Central America, named a blue zone in the early 2000s. 

The residents of Nicoya, Costa Rica—known for its coastal views south of the Nicaraguan border—have routinely enjoyed three foods together for at least 6,000 years old, Dan Buettner, the Blue Zones LLC founder shares in his recent docuseries Live to 100 on Netflix. 

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Breakingviews - Green energy’s tailwinds blow the other way - Reuters   

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reacts as he delivers a speech during a press conference on the net zero target, at the Downing Street Briefing Room, in central London, on September 20, 2023. The UK looked set to backtrack on policies aimed at achieving net zero emissions by 2050 with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak expected to water down Acquire Licensing Rights Read more

LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The green energy boom is facing new headwinds. Falling costs, cheap capital and supportive politicians helped propel a headlong rush into renewable power. Now fracturing supply chains and higher interest rates are pushing up prices - and testing the resolve of consumers and governments.

It took a while for the world to wake up to the need to replace fossil fuels. Yet in the past five years or so, the push to replace electricity generated by burning coal and oil with solar and wind power turned into a headlong rush. Global investment in clean energy between 2019 and 2023 will exceed $7 trillion, according to the International Energy Agency, outpacing spending on fossil fuels.

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China’s “demographic dividend” appears to be a myth - The Economist   

Since STARTING to open up to market forces in the 1980s China’s economy has grown at a formidable rate. Adjusting for the cost of living, GDP per person has risen ten-fold. But now China faces headwinds. Consumer confidence is low, youth unemployment is high and the economy is on the verge of deflation. On top of this, demography, a factor once credited for the country’s growth, is becoming a handicap.

During the past four decades China’s working-age population grew far faster than the number of young and elderly dependants did. This, in theory, increased the average citizen’s contribution to GDP, a feature often described as the country’s “demographic dividend”. However, a new working paper by Xin Meng of the Australian National University, appears to refute this widely accepted explanation for China’s economic success. Although the share of the country’s population that were of working age surged during this period, the share of people available to work did not.

Dr Meng gathered data from China’s decennial censuses and its between-census surveys between 1982 and 2015. The country does not make up-to-date detailed demographic figures openly available, but it has granted some researchers, of whom Dr Meng is one, access to a subset of the data. These audits contain information on the age, work status, education and hukou (household registration) of a representative sample of the population.

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