Reaven, a metabolic endocrinologist at Stanford Medical Center, denigrates the study.
coast a coastline or seashore is the area where land meets the sea or ocean a precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the dynamic nature of tides the term coastal zone can be used instead which is a spatial zone where interaction of the sea and land processes occurs
The West Coast or Pacific Coast is the coastline along which the contiguous Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean. As a region, this term most often refers to the coastal states of California, Oregon and Washington.