What Do the World's Longest Living People Have In Common? | Dan Buettner 

That is incredible!

That’s really good

This is the way to go - instead of waiting for the government to do something, any organisation can take action to improve the health of staff, clients, patients and visitors. It's basically progressing through the actions of dedicated people who spread the message. BTW, Americans shouldn't hold their breath re getting their government to do anything decisive any time soon. Unfortunately, government and industry are so enmeshed, and corporate interests have essentially bought and owned politicians for so many years, that big food corporations basically tell government health organisations and reps how to think and what to say. The power that industry lobbyists wield on government is beyond disgusting. Their interference in the dietary guidelines has been notorious - again and again, when the guidelines committee has sought to bring in more stringent guidelines to shift Americans towards healthier eating, Big Food has kicked up a stink, brought pressure to bear, and the result has been watered-down, wishywashy guidelines that are not worth the paper they're printed on. So a few brave pioneers stuck their necks out to start spreading the truth about the dangers of red meat, processed meat, chickens, eggs, cheese, sugar, processed foods and junk foods. Year by year, more and more people heed the message, though far more people would rather eat their way to the grave. And just like happened with the tobacco industry, the big food corporations fight dirty, trying to discredit the people who simply want to educate people about all the evidence collected through tens of thousands of research projects and studies. Every single warrior in the trenches makes a difference, and in another generation it will be widely admitted that the American diet is a killer, while a whole foods plant based plant diet prevents and treats killer diseases and can even reverse them. Instead of having to fork out a fortune in medical costs, people will just reach out with their fork for the beans and salad.

@@lranieri1 I'll see if I can find a copy of his letter to our newspaper on line...I think I tried before and could not...his name is Allen Weiss, M,D.

That’s so great to hear! A win in my books!

I fully agree with this. Social interaction and living in community is huge!

Dan Buettner brings this up in his books and in other interviews. There are 9 areas that Dan describes that contribute to longevity.

He could do with spending on his hair a bit but no one’s perfect 😆😆

How's your type 2 diabetes now a year later?

YEP....he was in Naples FL a few years ago....I attended the event....it was awesome!

We all know the truth about health. Americas can live 10 years longer if we follow Blue Zone recommendations. Thank you. Dan summarizes the truth about health.

The recipe is in his book on the Blue Zone diet. Yiu can also find it on line. Google Ikaria minestroni soup.

That makes sense - the regular typhoons would probably strip any tree nuts from their trees, but peanuts grow in the ground and would be safe from the winds.

nuts are bad=fat

Theyre great, 1-2 oz a day but not too much

@@grandpa1011 The PREDIMED study confirmed that nuts and olives (oil) reduced the risk of heart events when compared to a low-fat diet. In other words, the healthiest foods we should be eating are high in natural fat. One of the reasons a plant-based diet is healthier is that it is lower in carbs than the Standard American Diet (SAD). Jaminets, authors of the Perfect Health Diet, propose that the optimal carb intake can be determined by the following; too little intake and the body attempts to make up the deficit by gluconeogenesis. Too much and the body attempts to cope with the excess by lipogenesis for example. Of course the majority of those carbs need to be from unprocessed sources, and for most people about half the current RDA would be that optimal level. Too much protein is also problematic, and so the well-meaning advice to cut the fat from meat has contributed to it becoming unhealthier for decades. Nutrition is littered with perpetuated, flawed theories.

The Blue Zones weren't influenced by USDA/WHO advice, the food industry, the pharmaceutical industry, veganism...

It MIGHT be on the website???

Those are the best. I can eat 6-7 pounds in one meal.

Everything that shortens your life is cheap, everything that may extend it is expensive, simple.

@@givemethejob3293 That is not really true. Many healthy foods are cheap, and a lot of unhealthy ones are expensive

I love those Okinawan sweet potatoes with the burgundy skin and creamy white inside.

@@m.taylor Those are the Japanese or Murasaki sweet potatoes. Okinawan sweet potatoes are light brown on the outside and purple on the inside. I've never seen okinawan sweet potatoes in person before.

This is exactly what I was wondering.

honestly, i feel like this is part of the problem. you make eating needlessly complicated. do you think those people are wondering whether they're plant-based by volume or calorie count? they don't indulge in such silly minutiae. in costa rica, they basically eat beans/rice and a green vegetable. maybe a piece of meat/fish. - that right there equals 90/95% plant-based. but, go back to parsing and making the simple amazingly obtuse.

@@orangemoonglows2692 If you don't care to count calories that is your choice, but in this modern day we have more knowledge to work with-- at least some of us do.

@UCYlTQ7ETPHZjIz0JvD0K0Ww do you think those people are sitting around counting calories? no. they sit down and eat a plate of rice/beans/vegetables and a bit of animal product, and call it a meal, then go for a walk. if you're eating/living the way they do, you don't need to count calories. this has escaped you. you don't even need so-called modern "knowledge". the modern knowledge is confusing you. so even though information is laid out for you, you still don't get it cuz you're looking for some complicated solution to the problem you have created for yourself.

@@orangemoonglows2692 You don't seem to get it that each person's lifestyle is different, so each person chooses what suits their circumstances. Just because someone tells you you should eat this or that does not mean you follow blindly in disregard to your preferences, tastebuds and lifestyle--it is about thinking for yourself.

Growing similar doesn't make a difference. That's like saying "i do not see refined wheat unhealthy as it grows like whole wheat". Our bodies do thrive on sugar but not from refined sugar, from whole foods.

you're worried about the wrong things. i mean, you really are. paying attention to the wrong people/ideas flashing the latest shiny object in front of you.

@@orangemoonglows2692 From the 2015 BMC”Oxalates Induces Breast Cancer”, Not risk, or maybe, or might nor could.”We measured oxalate concentration in both human breast tumor tissues and adjoining non-pathological breast tissues, we found that all tested breast tumor tissues contain a higher concentration of oxalate than their counterpart non-pathological breast tissues.”

@@truthseeker9958 lol. you're lost. in fact, every blue zone group eats a good amount of beans/legumes. go eat a big mac.

Lol, cooked beans have no lectins, Noone eats uncooked beans, you didn't look at the science.

I would like to see Dan interview a big name carnivore like Baker or Chaffee…would be quite interesting. when you interview plant based people, it’s going to cherry picking

Grains=inflammation

no oils are bad pure fat

Less disease is also caused by reducing animal food consumption

Because the data indicated that they didn't--either in the late 1800s or in the post WWII period.

@@karlwheatley1244 The data indicate otherwise.

@@viveviveka2651 No, the data indicate that the Okinawans in the late 1800s got ~90 of calories just from sweet potatoes and the post WWII Okinawans were getting 96% of calories from plant foods, mostly sweet potatoes. Pork was prized but reserved for special feasts. I suggest digging into the research studies available from the Okinawan Research Center for Longevity Studies. Take care.

@@karlwheatley1244 No. False data. You need to do more research, and you'll see.

@@viveviveka2651 Thanks for your reply. I've done more research--I'm a PhD university professor and researcher and nutrition--and nutrition myths--are part of what I research and teach. Best scientific data I've seen shows a diet dominated by WFPB diet, both in the late 1800s and in the mid 1900s. What's important to understand is that male researchers and reporters from meat centric cultures routinely went off to study cultures and tribes, and unable to imagine that they really ate so many plants, saw some meat of fish and said "Aha, that's what they really must eat." For example, stories on the Tsimane and Hadza show pictures of them holding up game or strings of fish--even though 70-72% of their calories come carbs and thus 80-85% of their calories come from plant foods. In the case of the Okinawans, the false story that emerged was that they always ate tons of pork but couldn't eat it after U.S. soldiers invaded and took/slaughtered their pigs. As with many cultures, that had livestock, and loved eating it, but could only afford to eat it rarely. Heck, even Americans used to eat MUCH less meat than we do now. Take care.

Famous comedian George Burns on his 100th birthday speech got up to the podium and told the audience with his typical cigar and martini in hand, "If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself."

It is not just about diet. Dan Buetner talks about 9 activities that people in the Blue Zones engage in that also likely extend their lives. Your father-in-law could probably extend his life even further if he ate healthy. Perhaps he has all the other aspects of longevity in his life.

I'll be a centurion long before that, so you must be pretty young. If so, KUDOS! wish I had been wiser sooner.

@Angry Sheep I tend to thing the overall harm of cheese is worse than eating fish, if you take the mercury out of the equation. I think its probably overall worse that steak.

Vegan oil free pizza is perfectly fine

@Peter R. I agree with that

They grow everything by themselves. Just buy organic and won't be a problem

​@@grandpa1011or better yet, buy cheap seeds and grow as much as you can all around your own back yard or in buckets on the balcony if you have to

Eat mostly fruits and nuts and seeds and watch Game Changers on Netflix and read Dr Michael Greger's book How Not to Die.

@@pinkiepinkster8395 I’m going to have to check that out. But Dr. Gundry talks a lot about lectins and seeds and nuts are high in them. It’s really a damned if you do damned if you don’t situation. Every social media doctor, has a different ideology. Before it wouldn’t have been a problem for me, but for almost two months I’ve been taking medicine for acid reflux (that I didn’t even have) and it’s really got me thinking my stomach will be messed up so now I’m weary of everything.

you're deluded, and so is the old man you follow.

@@candicedavis2486 Gundry says lots of things that don't fit the science on long-term health outcomes.

@@candicedavis2486 Dr. Gundry says lots of things that don't fit the science on long-term health outcomes.

Any data to prove that?

Yes many people lie, even health guru Paul Bragg lied about his real date of birth, but Richard Arvin Overton did not lie about his age because his good diet kept his mind and body intact.

@@StanDupp6371 that's neither proof or data. However, if what you imply is true then the concept of blue zones is a big lie and nutrition cannot be part of the equation.

@@harvinderubhi5540 Blue zones is not a big lie but a little exaggerated for the typical selling of books with an agenda. Who wrote to book? For more accurate results use your left and right eye and visit the people face to face yourself and then you will know or take it from my 96 year old father who has traveled all over the world and was in Okinawa in 2nd WW, although he was a Signalman and had to stay on the ship he heard about what they were eating of course this was back in 1944.

@@StanDupp6371 Bragg lied but how is that anything to do with OKinawans who 's age has been verified by birth records?

Who cares

Nope. The amount is very low. He has studied them in depth whereas as you are a clueless youtube troll.

He is just another in a long line of dishonest food propagandists: _As we saw in his chapter on the Sardinian blue zone, he leaves out considerable information that contradicts his premise, namely that the longevity diet is one that contains a lot of vegetables and only small amounts of meat-that’s lean meat, not “processed meats that are filled with fat.”_ _Buettner subtitles his chapter on blue zones in Okinawa “Sunshine, Spirituality, and Sweet Potatoes,” but what he reveals in the very first paragraph is the fact that SPAM-and-vegetable stir-fry is the favorite dish of Okinawans. (Fact Alert: SPAM is a processed meat that is full of fat.)_ _From a USDA Foreign Agricultural Report we learn: “Annual average consumption of luncheon meat per person in the prefecture [of Okinawa] is about 14 cans (340 g per can)/year. It is even more impressive when you learn that Okinawa, with only 1.1 percent of the total Japanese population, is responsible for over 90 percent of the total luncheon meat consumption in Japan. The local menu using luncheon meat ranges widely from stir-fried vegetables to rice balls. ‘SPAM omusubi’ (see photo) is particularly popular.” The Okinawans also eat more hamburger than people in Japan_

From someone who has actually lived in Okinawa, and who has done more honest and careful research into Okinawan diets: _The diet of Okinawa also includes considerably more animal products and meat_ - _usually in the form of pork_ - _than that of the mainland Japanese or even the Chinese._ _Goat and chicken play a lesser, but still important, role in Okinawan cuisine. Okinawans average about 100 grams or one modest portion of meat per person per day. Animal foods are important on Okinawa and, like all food, play a role in the population’s general health, well-being and longevity._ _Fish plays an important role in the cooking of Okinawa as well. Seafoods eaten are various and numerous_ - _with Okinawans averaging about 200 grams of fish per day.” Buettner implied that the Okinawans did not eat much fish, but in fact, they eat quite a lot...._

@@viveviveka2651 You obviously ARE clueless and not only that, you didn't listen to this interview. Dan pointed out that the Okiniwan diet today bears zero resemblance to the traditional diet. He also pointed out (as you said) that since they NOW eat more fish and other meats, as a result, their health and longevity is WORSE than that of the general Japanese population. Always pays to actually watch the video you comment on.

@@viveviveka2651 It's painfully clear you did not even watch the video you're commenting on and also have no idea what you're talking about. You are the only "propagandist" here What you're copying and pasting from meat-promoting forums is what the Okinawans eat today. A terrible diet that as Dan Buettner, pointed out in this interview, has led them be LESS healthy and long-lived today than the general Japanese population. That says it all. They gave up the plant-based diet and suffered failing health as a consequence.

You are what you eat. Your diet impacts your health. Obesity in children and adults is rising across the world. Fast food and sugary drinks are contributing to the problem of poor health and obesity. Eat a healthy plant based diet and exercise regularly. Reduce or ELIMINATE cows milk, eggs, cheese and meat. Eat more salad greens, beans, fruit and vegetables. Eliminate fast food, snacks like cookies, cakes, chips, and sugary drinks and juices. Every adult and child should own a bicycle and ride it regularly. Regular exercise will help you sleep better. Yoga is a great stress reducer. Obesity is all too common today. Get off the couch. Get off the phone, ipad or video game. A variety of stretching and other exercises help with increased mobility. Ride to work, ride to school, ride for fun. Every city should be a bicycle city. Speak up for bicycles in your community

@@KJSvitko "Obesity in children and adults is rising across the world." Explained by the rise in seed-oil consumption alone. See: Chris Knobbe and Tucker Goodrich.

that is not right way to look at it, the more right stuff you eat the longer you live. the difference is your perception and knowledge. doing better is always better, you cant get away with anything else.

@Angry Sheep Nope. See: Chris Knobbe and Tucker Goodrich.

@Angry Sheep Those guys you listed have no awards, honors, inventions, patents, prizes and they sell books and products that are all accredited by nothing, they are entertainers.

"Stick to a proper balanced diet and don't overdo it on plants...."Oxalate induces breast cancer" You're taking reductionist science then jumping to inappropriate conclusions. The best overall long-term health outcomes come from diets that are VERY high in whole plant foods. They also produce lower cancer and lower breast cancer rates. More research is needed, and while it's fine for folks to not overdo it on oxalates, warning them away from whole plant foods is harmful.

@@karlwheatley1244 Stick to the facts stated. A warning sign does not tell people what to do and neither am I. There is a warning sign on wine and beer and also on an extension cord I got with the prop 65 warning sign. How would you interpret those 2 for yourself?

@@StanDupp6371 Thanks for your reply. You said... "A warning sign does not tell people what to do and neither am I" But also said... "don't overdo it on plants" That's telling people what to do. I'm just pointing out that the best overall long-term health outcomes come from diets dominated by whole plant foods. Had you said "Perhaps we shouldn't eat too many high-oxalate plant foods," that would have fit the evidence better. Take care.