adventists

It's much easier to find a group of Adventists that have an above average lifespan because Adventists form a community.

Yeah, and to make matters funnier the Seventh Day Adventists bought the brand and added themselves to the list.

Or even just the Branch Davidians and the seventh day adventists, of whom the branch Davidians were an offshoot.

Why are Adventists or vegetarians outside of Loma Linda not super centarians, why the Loma Linda boundary?

Loma Linda is the only blue zone in the USA, and it is dominated by adventists who are predominately vegetarian.

If Adventists have cracked the code for longevity, you'd find their other congregations with similar benefits.

The term goes back to the Vegetarian Society in England, and was also popularized by Seventh Day Adventists in the US.

Seventh-day Adventists avoid stimulants as part of a broader health code.

In any case, that's not how the Adventists have historically seen it, and I'm not an Adventist now in any case.

There are ~9000 Adventists in Loma Linda.

Thus the Adventists in Loma Linda are far more likely to be one of these many blips that have zero causal power than they are to have special life sauce.

In my experience, in all of academia, Harvard dietary research is the shoddiest and the most biased, given their historical strong ties to Seventh Day Adventists which are notoriously pro-vegetarianism and pro-veganism.

Even then, Sunday was generally termed the "first day" -- note that "Seventh Day Adventists" hold their religious services on Saturday.

But some churches, like Jehovah's witnesses and adventists believe in the "soul sleep", so the soul sleeps until the second coming of Christ, then you are sent to either heaven or hell.

The sixth commandment explicitly say that: "You shall not murder." I'm not a theologian, but I know the Adventists took a much harder stance against killing real, live people in war than they did about in the abstract in utero, and that makes rational sense to me.

As this article noted before even the first of so many page breaks: "And in Loma Linda, Calif., we identified a population of Seventh-day Adventists in which most of the adherents’ life expectancy exceeded the American average by about a decade." A full decade, within the same American safety net, is a tremendous difference.

Adventists hospitals even allowed abortions to be performed on prem since they had no doctrinal problem with it.

In consequence, there are now seven Christian sub-sects that trace their lineage back to The Great Disappointment, including the Seventh-day Adventists.

There are lots of different kinds of Christian fundamentalists, but the specific fundamentals of their church differ between groups (7th Day Adventists, etc.).