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Lots of people are looking for long life and health, including Dan Buettner. The answers are really simply if you are willing to make some lifestyle adjustments.
If you are looking for a Fountain of Youth, forget pills and diet supplements. Adventurer Dan Buettner has visited four spots on the globe where people live into their 90s and 100s and outlines how they add years of good life in his new book, “The Blue Zones.”
The answer, Buettner says, includes smaller food portions, an active lifestyle and moderate drinking.
“If someone tells you they have a pill or hormone (that extends life), you’re about to lose money,” Buettner says.
Buettner identifies four hot spots of longevity: the mountainous Barbagia region of Sardinia, an island off the coast of Italy; the Japanese island of Okinawa; a community of Seventh-day Adventists in Loma Linda, Calif., about 60 miles east of Los Angeles; and the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica, in Central America.
[amazonify]0345490118:right[/amazonify]The Blue Zones book has received positive reviews, enough for me to add to my Amazon.com wish list. I will be shocked however, if I find more useful information in it than I have taken from Healthy at 100 by John Robbins. I’ve already made several dietary adjustments based on advice from that book, and I will review it here in the near future.
The long lived Okinawans are mentioned in both of these guides to healthier life – it is unfortunate that the virus we call modern culture is infecting younger Okinawans and ensuring that their elders are going to outlive many of them. In our modern memewars, Western civilization is winning. Unfortunately, Western eating habits contribute to a bunch of drooling ignorant slobs roaming aisles of abundance in motorized carts and making the worst possible choices. I’m not sure why it has taken me 37 years to wake up to the fact that we eat terribly in the United States, but I finally have. Now I am busy investigating what adjustments I should make.