The Blue Zones Solution : Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People

The Blue Zones Solution : Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People
ISBN: 9781426216558
Publication Date: 5 September 2017

Now in paperback, this New York Times bestseller provides a proven plan to maximize your health based on the practices of the world's healthiest people. With Blue Zones City Makeovers dramatically impacting the health of millions of Americans, this is a book for anyone who wants to create their own personal Blue Zone.

In this groundbreaking book, Dan Buettner reveals how to transform your health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities he's identified as 'Blue Zones' --those places with the world's longest-lived, and thus healthiest, people. (Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula; Ikaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California).

With the audacious belief that the life styles of the world's Blue Zones could be adapted and replicated in towns across North America, Buettner launched the largest preventive healthcare project in the United States, The Blue Zones City Makeovers, which has impacted the health of millions of Americans since 2009. In The Blue Zones Solution, readers can be inspired by the specific stories of the people, foods, and routines of our healthy elders; understand the role community, family, and naturally healthy habits can play to improve our diet and health; and learn the exact foods--including the 50 superfoods of longevity and dozens of recipes adapted for Western tastes and markets--that offer delicious ways to eat your way to optimum health. Throughout the book are lifestyle recommendations, checklists, and stories to help you create your own personal Blue Zones solution. Readers will learn and apply the 80/20 rule; the plant slant diet; social aspects of eating that lead to weight loss and great health natura...