The final lessons of The Blue Zones involve finding community. Lesson seven encourages finding a spiritual community and being involved. Buettner suggests branching out and exploring a new tradition if you do not already have one. Lesson eight encourages making family a priority. He suggests finding one area of your home where everyone can hang […]
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The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner, Part 3
This is part three of the summary of health recommendations from The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner. Lesson three involves eating a whole foods, plant based diet (does this sound familiar?) The centenarians typically eat two veggies per meal and consume meat in limited quantities. His recommendation is to have meat no more than twice […]
The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner, Part 2
So what did Dan Buettner discover during his globe-trot? Well, like so much of what we know about good health most of it involves common sense. He ends the book with nine lessons, many of which I will pass on to you. Of course, I highly recommend this book because it’s content far surpasses my […]
The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner
Feel like reading an interesting, well-written book that really might improve your life? Then I suggest you pick up a National Geographic book called The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner. The author has traveled the globe from Loma Linda, California to Okinawa, Japan studying communities with the highest percentages of centenarians (people who live to […]