What The Longest Living People Eat Every Day | Blue Zone Kitchen Author Dan Buettner
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- The foods that people living to 100+ - in Sardinia, Italy; Okinawa, Japan; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece and Loma Linda, CA. (aka Blue Zones) - eat.
Diet is part of their longevity but not all of it. These groups usually have all the elements. Like low stress, community events and laughter , exercise outdoors, sunshine, etc. It is not just the diet. Stress kills and the western culture rat race lifestyle HAS LOTS OF STRESS , lonely people , 40% obesity
I agree totally. I have followed the lifestyles and diet of these populations for quite a while now and as a European friend I would say that the stress that accompanies your "American dream" lifestyle will never be compensated for by diet alone. When I was a kid we had a saying that the Americans live to work, and we work to live. That is not to say that the people of the blue zones are not hard workers, because in fact they are hard physical workers, but rather I believe that in addition to their diet, their philosophy of life focuses on friendship, spirituality and savouring the simple beauty that is in every day. I feel that for many people today, the focus of life seems to be the attainment of career success at all costs, but at what price?
Very true
Agree , stress is biggest killer of human race , we did not evolve to be put under the constant stress that modern life dictates .
So true
Very true
Both the Japanese and the Greeks on Crete Island have one element in common: iodine . The Japanese eat algae while the Greeks in Crete have the air filled with iodine.
Spirulina
In the West we are taught to fear, IODINE! Lied to again!
The American diet is not killing people, American doctoring is what is killing people! Which is worse than American education!
@@stankygeorge But who teaches the doctors? Government schooling as not all doctor are that way. I LOVE my P.A. and would not trade him for anyone. It is also the FDA and the companies that pay them to lie about the food they pass. OH, running to the bathroom to drink my iodine. LOL. EXACTLY, we are taught to fear so they can control us.
'iodized salt. "When It Rains It Pours"?! Thanks Morton. DH,s!
how is the air filled with iodine?
You also have to take the environment into account.
and, fist of all, genetics.
Environment soil quality food genetics so much plays a part .
Healthy young fit people die like anyone else .
People who smoke drink eat garbage live as long or longer .
Most important for me my appointed time of Death is in my Lord's hand and timetable .
Makes me so Proud to be among those Sda's ...
Thank you.... Thank you 🙏🏾 👏🏽🙌🏾👏🏽🙌🏾
This one is awesome 👏
🤔One important ingredient not mentioned.. GODS grace
Amen!
I don’t care about living longer but living pain free.
This Blue Zone being mostly plant based is a myth!! My boyfriend's family is from Sardinia. My best friend's family is from Okinawa. We've been to Ikaria, Greece and Nicola, Costa Rica. All these places are heavy on animal/animal fat consumption. The potatoes/ sweet potatoes are very recent introduction to Okinawa and Ikaria. They live long because they literally work and keep active until the can't physically. They are all very community oriented and the elders are revered and have purpose within their community.
Your comment on there diet is complete BS there diet is mostly plant based and very small portions of meat
@@Therealelvis01 You're entitled to believe whatever pleases you.
The diet of centenarians of Okinawa are well documented, which you have not researched. No one needs your unresearched assumptions based on the modern post war Okinawan diet that includes crap like spam.
@@mrbonzzai Well documented how? Have you actually read how they conducted these blue zone study? And if you did and still think that the centenarians of Okinawa were mostly plant based, then, I could sell you ice in the Arctic and you'd buy in a heartbeat.
Absolutely, I'm from Sardinia and I really don't understand why someone have spread such idiocies about our diet.
Sardinia is well-known as a traditional pastoral society....it means that meat and diary products have been always available, even in the past and they represented some of the main elements of the diet together with vegetables.
For sure in Sardinia doesn't exist any peculiar minestrone recipe, although the bull*** I watch in this video LOL.
There is no one factor involved in longevity... They walk places often - for example to their allotment where they grow fresh health veg and fruit. They have good sleeping patterns, They socialise in a healthy way which does not include binge drinking there way through an evening. They have good family relationships. They fast. Pollution levels are lower dur to reduced transportation. This is just to list a few things I can think of without looking up on Doctor Google.
My grandfather lived to 103. Most of his life he ate 3 eggs for breakfast. Skipped lunch entirely and had greens, potatoes, carrots, meat and gravy 6 days a week. Fish and chips on Fridays. None of the rubbish filling our supermarket shelves these days ever entered his mouth.
Obviously there are outliers but certainly not the rule.
Baked beans, full of protein and fibre, 73 years old and still running up stairs no problem..🙂
...Excellent! 👏
I’m 30 and can’t run up the stairs. Asthmatic… lol. I still exercise and lift weights though.
Love baked beans
Sugar content .. they will yell at us 😂
You are so right. And it’s important you mentioned baked because the one that we get from cans cause inflammation
Loma Linda I a wonderful place. I studied there for seven years to be a surgeon. I was raised a Seventh day Adventist, and I was a Ovo Lacto (that means that I did eat eggs, and drink milk) Vegetarian until I was 18 years old. Now I am 76 years old, still doing surgery five days a week, and going strong. Thank you Loma Linda, and I plan to be part of your Blue Zone Population.
Good for you! 👍
I worked with several 7th Day Adventist physicians here in Michigan and I always enjoyed working with them. They acted deeply for people and went the extra mike for their staff and patients
George.... I eat a mixed diet, sometimes heavy in meat and fat, I am 73 and going strong, no medications, so here's hoping. But I very seldom eat processed food, take aways etc.
I was raised SDA as well but the problem with many of the vegetarians, well not actual vegetarian as vegetarians don't eat animal products, but everyone was ovo-lacto.
The amount of butter, dairy and cheese at potlucks and boarding school....like wow!
I have a cookbook that my grade school put together and sold to raise money. All the recipes came from student's families and church members and when I look at it today it is stunning how much fatty cheese, milk, cream , butter, etc. is in the food and still they live longer on average. Thank goodness for being raise to eat a bunch of meat, bacon, and other garbage.
Very nice and thoughtful group of people which I am sure is a big de-stressor which would help lengthen life
The average Loma Linda Adventist would live even longer if all the dairy, cheese, etc was not used to the degree that they are.
I went to Loma Linda as well. Bless you for providing health care all of these years
Probably they don’t hurry that much like us Americans …see that poor guy, he had no time to speak peacefully in this presentation
True. The concept of blue Zones was first published in national geographic around the mid 2000s and includes a ven-diagram, that shows the common factors of the different centerinarian communities, one of which is less pressure of time
…and he doesn’t look very young for his age either. So he probably should live up more to his own advice. LOL
@@bikemike1118 he was under pressure to produce the book, make the press release rounds, stay up late, excess travel. he looks like he could use some SLEEP too.
@@newburghphysiotherapist2429 i bet without a hint of irony they broke instantly to 5 minutes of meat fast food junk food car money fashion bullshit adverts
@@wernerbeinhart2320 Wikipedia has that ven diagram in their article titled simply Blue Zones.
Both of my grandmas lived into their 90s. They both had gardens; raised their own vegetables and also raised their own chickens; etc. There was no processed foods in their diets and no chemicals.
Mine too! Their food was the best!
Amen to that 🙏🤗
No animal products....
My mom is 98 and she does does eat fresh veggies and fruits. She says she likes beets. But she eats processed food like muffins and bacon too.
low stress and simple lives?
The minestrone: all those ingredients plus escarole. I grew up on this. My grandmothers died at 97 and 94 respectively. My parents are both still alive and in their nineties. My grandparents immigrated to America in the 1940s. We never had anything on the table not made from scratch. We preserved our own tomato sauce every August/September, including egglant and roasted peppers. No obesity. No diabetes. So yeah. Let food be thy medicine. These days it should be organic and non gmo. God help us and God Bless. Great vlog!!!
Do a VLog for youtube with the recipes.....all is welcomed.
@@bluehavencd Hello. Nah, I'm 70 and I am still working. I don't have the time. Maybe in two or three years when I retire. 😎
@@alixandrinafortis5044 wowww, may you live long. God bless you always
@@reemzayn Thank you! I appreciate it. And you!!
What is that soup called? I would like to look for a recipe.
The best lifestyle advice change I can give anyone is STOP eating fast food & STOP drinking soda. I cold Turkey did this and lost 15lbs in 11 months. This was the only diet change / lifestyle change I made. It was effortless and rewarding.
My grandma and great grandma lived into their late 90’s, they ate tons of bean, corn ,root veggies and greens and rarely ate meat or dairy . They drank herbal teas everyday and always took short naps . That’s the way to live 💜
Today it's all G.m.o in those foods now
Try living like that nowadays if you have a family and are trying to make "ends meet" That;s a fantasy.
My dad ate cheeseburgers and smoked cigarettes and lived to be 97 years old. Go figure.
@@phillipsmom6252 Honestly, I think in the long run those who live the longest are there because of their character and mindset. The habits and diets are important but not nearly as important as your stress levels and how you think about your reality.. being "healthy" goes way beyond having a healthy body.
@@nicebars i agree on that, i think the mindset, the way we look at the world is very important
They left Africa out. African elders live old and without any “age” diseases. There are no nursing homes there😳
true My uncle in Africa is ninty years old and he is healthy and he has never consume tylenol
are you serious? The average life expectancy in the whole continent is just 64 and there is no a country in Africa with a life expectancy rate that can be compared with any werstern european or eastern asia country.
Maybe they are racist. So sad and incredibly rude
@@cucciolobello4751 That what you have been toldbut that is not the reality. Have you been in Africa or middle east. I have been told the west is paradise but I came that i saw it is a hell fir many people. Look homeless people, drug edicted people, aboriginal peoples. In Africa no one is homeless and drug edicted people are very very low, the poor people in Africa are happier than the rich people in the west, no people hanging them selves but you don’t believe. You have been brainwashed for centuries in order to be the slaves of the system.
# turn off the Tv and study by yourself
@@cucciolobello4751 Thats a load of garbage. Try going there and seeing with your own eyes instead of reading about it. Typical American Joe who thinks they know everything because of Google. Im Nigerian and can tell you what the lady stated is all facts.
my great grandma lived to 106 years old, my grandma is currently 80 and my grandpa 90. It's not like they don't stress but they all had peaceful lives without major sad events and they just worked to live and not the other way around. They dont eat too much, they eat yogurt with honey every morning, some homemade meal afterwards (like beans, chicken in the oven, fish, vegetables in the oven with feta etc) and cheese with bread and tea or chamomile in the afternoon. They also walk every morning and they have never used a car, they go everywhere they want by foot or bus. I think simplicity is the best tactic, exercising daily, not stressing too much, not eating heavily processed food on a daily basis.
I love this
Where do they live?
@@harvdog5669 I guess not.
@@harvdog5669 Greece 😊
@@ludiabooth7718 sorry I hadn’t seen the question 😅
People either tend to misunderstand or don't understand whatsoever!! We, the Mediterranean, like to relax! It is not only about food, it is the life style. It is about having good neighbors, friends and family. Basically, it is about being social in the true meaning of it. Also doing everything in moderation is what matters. Just because walnuts are nutritious doesn't mean you should devour a pound or two...Just because wine is delicious and nutritious you should not drink a bottle of it. Instead, have a glass everyday, which is the sustainable way...Rather than facing the possibility of not being able to drink wine at all, drink a glass or two now...don't abuse it. Do not eat meat whatsoever, or eat once or twice a month. Skip meals every now and then...live happily ever after. Cheers.
Exactly!
Fats are actually good and necessary for the brain, as well as protein. There is this 108 year old black lady from Alabama or Georgia who eats hotdogs every single day!! Go figure!! Maybe it’s a stress free, get sleep society??
Grass fed meat is the most nutrient dense food on the planet. Along with eggs. Its about nutrition and not poisoning yourself with junk.
Best reply.
@Bill T yea try to follow these charts and eat only kale 3x a day for 2 weeks and tell me how your stomach feels lol
These charts are a joke for dumb ppl. It's like bmi to determine if some1 is fat. You'd have to eat several kilos of those to even get daily minimum rda's, which are often WAY too low lol. That's how vegans end up looking so dried out with sunken eyes. If you want to have an ideology instead of health you get deluded and your brain just doesn't function right cause you're starving. Liver gets fried by all the sugar and body completely dehydrated by low nutrient to water ratio. Low aminos to compensate for organ protection and cellular aging just skyrockets
Someone said, "don't eat what your grandparents would't recognize when they were young". What they would't recognize are the products made by the big food Industy. They make food to make profits. They don't make foods because they care about your health.
Right said
@Brenda Garza I understand what you said..........I m Indian , we usually eat fresh foods, fresh and seasonal vegetables, fresh milk, curd etc.............pray for good health for everyone.........
Corporations only God is gold!
I tell people: "If your bloodline is Asian, African etc. then eat what your Grandparents ate"! It is in your genes!
I’ve also heard, if you can’t make it in your kitchen, don’t eat it.
@@robinsaxophone232 Moreover when we cook something for our family we feel so happy and satisfied inside........
My dad grew up in Ireland all his siblings lived well into their nineties. He ate eggs butter and homemade brown bread everyday and meat and two veg for dinner!! I think exercise is really important and keeping weight down.
It’s inner happiness for real though
@@Saudade54 what do you eat?
@@Saudade54 pretty much sounds like my diet lol
I agree, it's hard to avoid the junk food snacking. It feels like a set up.
@@Saudade54 🤣
Don't hang up on the specifics, eat unprocessed foods and you'll be good to go.
True
Agreed but I think giving people specific examples of what these people eat makes it easier to adopt in every day life
And eat mostly plant based!
I agree. Correlation doesn’t mean causation. I’m bit to fascinated with the beans, rice, and corn longevity theory. Or that eating refined carbs is better than exercise lol.
Yes ....its key to heathy life
My best friend's husband's family is from ya Greek island and she said those elderly Islanders are very active and their minds are sharp.
Yes, diet is not the only factor in longevity. Other lifestyle factors are equally important. People focus too much on diet.
@@MrYorugua12345 yes, they get plenty of rest and they stay active.
And they eat mostly meat and dairy not fiber bulshit.
Djprojectus they barely eat meat lol it’s mostly plant based
@@Therealelvis01 Thats a lie. Go to Mary Ruddick chanel and you will see the truth.
Well, I should be as strong as an ox, but I'm not. I'm in my 8th decade, can walk for hours without tiring, live on a peaceful peninsula, have strong ties with neighbours, never, ever eat junk food, have a happy marriage, no finance worries, and don't smoke or gamble. Almost 100% of my food is grains, fruit, veges, tofu, cheese, oil, butter, yoghurt, eggs and fish, with home grown herbs.
However, I've inherited a cancer that's been trying to kill me for the last 26 years!
I'm guessing that my lifestyle has helped me survive multiple surgeries, radiotherapy and chemo, but it sure didn't prevent my cancer.
I believe every country has foods that can help you live up to 100 years. Just eat natural food and be active, live the life that makes you happy, and live in harmony with nature. Grow your own food.
Yes living in harmony with nature is best form of peace and relaxation.
@@rpatel3935 Americans have access to man-made, processed foods. Some countries don't have that.
@@crand20033Yes odd that pure organic food grown naturally will be a rarity one day. They talking about growing vegan food in tunnels underground and making meat from chicken feathers etc. Crazy world.
Nature in the congested cities ? Come on you can hardly see the sky
@@rob5197 Move to the country if that is possible for you.
Yes, the diet matters, but really, it's from the trace minerals that run through the soil in different amounts and they are highest in those same long life zones. The local vegetables there are packed with natural minerals.
They also walk everywhere everyday...to work, bakery, market, etc. Few own cars.
The seeds we use are modified or stripped of minerals. Grow your own herbs look up what F1 is. It’s modified seeds by companies to keep you using their produce. Now think of this on a grand scale including farmers selling to supermarkets. This is what we eat. Grow your own where you can using heritage seeds.
@Contre Viole 32 I rent in the City in an 80-year old craftsman house and grounds with no digging anything up. So dug up the alley strip, which had never seen a hoe or a fork, the earth rich and black, tomatoes now are 8-feet tall. It's a public alley after all. Then I dug up the neighboring alley. They don't care. 100-feet x 4-feet of virgin earth garden, just for the effort of doing it. Stop your self-pity, please!
You are absolutely correct, and might I also add a little "food for thought." In the U.K., they published a study that predicted that due modern farming practices , designed to maximize crop yields at the cost of soil health/integrity, in approximately one century, they will no longer be able to grow and/or harvest crops. If there isn't a serious shift in the way they grow/raise their food soon their will be no stopping or reversing this. North america has a similar problem but worse because we use more of the unnatural chemicals than they do, our only saving grace is that we haven't been farming the land nearly as long, but we're starting to catch up. The only proper way of farming involves a combination of crop rotations and ethical animal agriculture, and not pumping artificial chemicals/hormones into either. We need both together for us and the planet.
@@robertmarmaduke9721 your gonna get slapped with a lawsuit by the city man !!
There is one common denominator to all these places and it received NO mention. Whoever researched this dropped the ball. All these places have goats and sheep and make cheese from them. There are 2 areas around Sardinia, mountains and sea side. The mountain people are the ones that have a long life and they eat lots of goat cheese.
Three sisters is a farming method developed by natives from all across the americas. Beans that grow up corn and give the soil back nitrogen which corn uses a lot of and squash as a ground cover to keep moisture from evaporating so fast.
Dad, a master bricklayer, lived to 99, brains intact, loved barbecue, especially steak, never heard of turmeric or tofu, no fruit except bananas, no wine, never heard him use the Lord's name in vain, trustworthy, faithful in marriage, no stress.
Well you can always find those anecdotes. They smoked, drank, lived and played hard and lived to be 1,000 years old. What Mr. Buettner is talking about are populations. On the whole. The macro view.
I'm glad that you had such an amazing experience with your father. You keep telling your great story regardless what folk say. Bravo Papa.
Jesus what great a love bound you to that cross. You destroyed death and rose from the grave so we can too. Thank you for your act of sacrificial love and your promise of everlasting life for all who believe in you. 🙏
More important is what you don't consume: soda pop, sweet drinks, will kill you faster than if you just drank filtered water; and you'll save a lot of money and time not throwing away all the cans.
Do not eat elephants whole!
Also do not attempt to consume uncooked Tasmanian Devils.
My husband is 103 will probably celebrate his birthday in June be 104 We enjoy Tuna fish in oil not chunks but Albacore! We also have peanut butter and other food do not eat citrus have apples and hubby likes prunes or the juice and love strawberries and 🍌.
When is his birthday?
That’s amazona dear ❤️
Why no citrus?.. I love grapefruit.
I eat probiotic prunes every day. And it's not just because I like them.
Wow! That Biblical diet is what some of us grew up on in Kenya. Seventh-Day Adventists not just by name, but those who eat the living Word of God. Dad died at 93, he was strong like a horse, mom is 88 strong like an ass. Parents loved each other, were married 67 good years. 13 kids, 11 living with no "sniffles" in their 60's, 50's and 40's. 50 plus grandkids, and another 50 great-grandkids. The genes of those who eat healthily, family togetherness, treating others with compassion, and living a godly life are the ways to pure living and longevity until Kingdom comes. Glad the world is figuring it out now but it's all in the B-I-B-L-E. Daniel and the 3 Hebrew boys gave up the king's meat for a 10-day course of vegetables and were found to be healthier and smarter. It doesn't take science to figure it out. Obedience to God is key. Have a blessed day.
Poa sana ndugu
Amen!
@@vhenusaguinaldo2278
What a glorious testimony you have shared! Praise be to God!
Just don't enslave anybody or commit genocide in the process.
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I am 82, I've never been cautious and I eat what I like! I might also mention that I am lucky.
If you are an active person or have been, this makes a difference. Active=exercise.
The always focus on the diet of these people but they also live more simple active lives and very often the little 80 yr old Italian lady has to walk down a hill and back up it to get that loaf of bread and bottle of wine and very often that Asian is farming his own land up into his 80's.
Mate you talk about farming being low stress it ain’t plenty of farmers take their own lives and try planting rice in a paddy field by hand it’s back breaking. you’ll see old Asian ladies with a really bad hunch over after a lifetime of working in the rice fields.
@@sid35gb Commercial farming is different from supplementing your own diet. But yeah, its hard work. Still, different from the capitalist rat race.
Some of my neighbours in india climb coconut trees in their 70s
True. There's this tendency to grab one element (and one that's easily reproduced) and focus on that, but happiness, fresh air, daily exercise and food all inter-act.
I'm so grateful that I live in a place where I can shop and commute via bicycle, I think if I had to sit in a car two hours a day (with snacks for when I'm stuck in a traffic jam?) I'd have diabetes already.
Most definitely, we are killing ourselves with chemicals such as HFCS, transfats and STRESS.
My nan has just had her 95th birthday. Still going strong. She drinks a bottle of whisky a week. She fries everything she eats. She's as sharp and as mobile as someone 30 years younger.
I work in a small family run meat market. We exclusively work with pork, and have customers that have been buying from the same company for 70 years. We have a large number of customers in their late 90's early 100's who are still healthy and they have eaten pork, salt cured and smoked, lard biscuits, collards and sweet potatoes all of their lives.
Yes. And I was born in Okinawa, was there my first year. My mother says they eat pork there regularly and put pork fat/lard in everything, also fish sauce.
The man in the video leaves a lot of detail out.
*please stop to spread bull*** about stranger countries diets, Sardinians put pork even in the cookies, their traditional diet is based on dairy and meat products, while Okinawa people use to eat tons of fish, their is a hyperproteic diet on the opposite of vegetarian ones.*
Exactly.
The diet of centenarians of Okinawa are well documented, which you have not researched. No one needs your unresearched assumptions based on the modern post war Okinawan diet that includes crap like spam.
@@mrbonzzai your arrogance is really pathetic. Please, explain us something about Okinawa traditional diet. I'm curious to read your idiocies.
Sorry, my Great Aunt in-law made it one day short of 103. I asked her and her 90 something sister what was their secret. I about fell over when she put down her knitting and told me how they ate McDonalds breakfast platters two or three days a week. She was also partial to their cheeseburgers. Well, I'm thinking it might have been something else, she had never been married and I got to see pix of her back in the 1920's, what a hot number! My guess? Walking on the wild side a little bit, and doing what she wanted with her life might have been a factor. LOL.
I think what you said is true. Being married is very stressful if you chose the wrong person. Deadly also.
According to life insurance records, single women live longer than married women. The opposite is true for men: married ones live longer.
@@LynxSouth That's especially true when the wife mysteriously disappears.
The exception doesn't disprove the rule, though.
Since both her and her sister lived a long life, it was mostly due to genetics to begin with. The typically SAD is known for causing diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and inflammation.
In my culture, the typically average life span is around 70 years old because we have one of the most unhealthy diet (red meat and white rice). The only centenarian in our family never followed our diet and instead ate fruits and vegetables. He was also a farmer and grew his own food. He lived to be 102 years old.
Maybe it's not the food, but activity level. I lived in Japan and most people ride their bikes to the train station and enjoy their work. People here can't even push their grocery carts to the return points in the parking lot.
Long story short: whole plant-based diet
exactly and less stress as a result of the plant based diet :)
You got that right. Four and half years now, feeling great, lost 25 lbs, eat all I want and off meds. This senior’s never going back.
O yes
Absolutely incorrect, lies and lies. In Sardinia people have a balanced diet, the typical Mediterranean diet which includes dairy, meat,fish and vegetables, olive oil and so on. Same applies to Japan, which has the highest number of people living over 100. Their diet is very rich in fish but also includes meat, vegetables. In Japan, people do not eat much dairy products, such as cheese, is not part of their culture, infact most of the cheeses are imported. I am Italian, and my paternal grandfather lived to 105 on a balanced diet which included dairy, meat, fish and vegetables. My other grandparents lived well in late eighties. This program is made for very gullible people.
@@roby72s Lies? 7 days Adventist are the longest living people in the US and they don't eat a "balanced diet"
Do your research 1ts before accusing others of lying
Why all those TV people screaming, talking so loud, so hysteric?
I think it's sort of ridiculous to just assume that we need to find the perfect food to eat when it's much more complex then this. I really think its purely about happiness overall and that affects your vibrations inside you, the mind, and therefore keep disease away, etc. Of course it absolutely helps to eat healthy but its definitely not going to be the only thing that keeps you living for so long
Idiot
Those vibrations! Beach Boys detect it too!
We get periodic vibrations here near the meeting place of three faults and a subduction zone, but other than being under ducks once in a while vibrations do not affect us.
The blue zone books kind of talk about the other lifestyle factors (like their spiritualpractices, fellowship, community, physical activity, etc). This segment just focuses on the common dietary component shared by all the blue zone populations. Probably because Rachel is a foodie lol.
Food is not the only factor but it’s a necessary one for health together with the others. If you skip the good diet is like having a table with one leg shorter than the others…the balance is lost
I wanna live 150 years , but I wanna feel 20 year old
It's possible. Fasting helps ALLOT. Breathariabs, fruitarians. Try what works for you.
Keep your hamds OFF those young women!
@@briseboy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think the answer is bionic parts. Watch Robo-cop. I'll bet he's still doing well.
Well, we weren't meant to die in the first place. And Adam and Eve died OUTSIDE of the GARDEN of Eden. Death occurred outside of the FIRST garden.
A good point to meditate on.....🌺💗
All these groups share much in common: mostly unprocessed natural foods, very little meat, lots of fish & other sources of protein , low stress, strong faiths & family supports, staying active
I saw a special on the "Blue Zones" once. The strong family units and faith have a lot to do with their longevity. I would think that the meat they eat (beef, lamb, etc.) is grass fed. Most people I know are afraid of fish because of mercury. The woman don't have careers outside of the home. They probably tend the gardens and take care of the oldest generation in the home. I don't know how they do it if the oldest generation in the home has dementia and have incontinence. I would suspect that the children are not on the computer or their cell phones all day and help out more than American children. I can't remember the last time that I saw a teenager even cut grass in the house where he lives.
and foods with probiotics that support healthy guts.
My grandmother lived into her 90s and ate bacon almost every day. And butter. Had a high fat diet. But never ate processed food and always had a garden.
@@ColoradoHiker It's not just about diet (though diet plays a very big role). Being very physically active helps a lot, having community in the life, being a decent hearted person (humor definitely helps), etc. And people of your grandmother's generations, while they did eat things like bacon--they tended to eat a lot less meat than modern Americans. Not only that, but they tended to eat less in general which is important.
There are people with exceptional genes that will live a fairly long time, even with a diet that is not the most ideal. But when you get entire large communities of many people living a very long time (into their 100's)--then that is when you should pay attention to their diets and other health lifestyles. And the Blue Zone groups are all pretty low meat compared to average American diet. When meat is eaten, it is more of a side dish rather than the central dish. And again, they also tend to eat less than most people in the US.
Besides these patterns, there has been plenty of animal research which shows that certain amino acids which are much higher in flesh foods (than plant foods) activate the m-Tor pathways in the body which significantly reduce longevity. David Sinclair talks a lot about these studies, as well as him and his group having run their own direct studies.
Or in other words, your grandmother's case falls more under the category of anecdotal.
I was born poor in Toronto 90 years ago. In my opinion the key to a long and healthy life is not to eat often for entertainment. If you do, you will eat too much and drink too much. You will wreck your body.
And try to think just far enough ahead to avoid falling into pitfalls: smoking, drugs, alcoholism, debt, hasty marriage, dropping out of education too soon. All of these will cause you stress and anxiety.
And find some activity that will exercise your brain. An empty brain at age 16 is a sad thing to behold. But an empty brain at age 60 is a tragedy about to unfold.
God bless you!
Hasty marriage is a terrible thing you’re right
As a 63 year old SDA I know that lifestyle matters . Simple Whole Foods , avoidance meat / dairy , exercise,water,sunshine temperance ,air,rest and trusting in God . Theses are the keys to a happy life.
Sda people should live longer..many my sdas friend refused to drink tea, coffee,.meat based on their interpretation of bible. Meanwhile on another blue zone like in japan, people eat fish, pork and drink tea and live longer. 😀
Loma Linda all the way
3 of my grandparents lived to be 95, 98 and 99. My mother lived until 92 and my father is now 97. They all ate greasy fatty crap their whole lives, but were never fat.
I think maybe genetics has a lot to do with it.
They probably felt like they were in there 90s too. You can live but what about your condition?
There was a 60 minute segment asking people that were 90-100. What was their secret. They ate bacon, smoked, drank. Didnt make sense. Then a fitness trainer dies at 30. Genetics is huge.
Probably ate small, didn’t work in a stressful environment, and had chill personalities. That helps a lot.
The "Three Sisters" diet includes the squash SEEDS. It's very important to have the seeds amino acids to complement the beans and corn.
The squash flesh is mostly just carbs, fiber and vitamins that are important too.
Keep in mind their corn is not the gmo corn we eat here in the states, so forget about that canned, frozen sweet corn.
Bad thing too, corn is highly connected with
a mold species called fusarium, may be old strains not, which produce highly toxic poisons like Deoxynivalenol, Ochratoxin,
Zearalenon
Just stop eating too much processed foods and foods(and drinks) with added sugars.
It’s interesting how every research is used as a tool to sell something!
How would you know that? You'd have to _know_ about every research. Unless you read scientific publications / watch scientific discussions on a regular basis, you will mostly learn about knowledge from tv-shows ... which, yes, often mention new research in the context of marketing something.
Talking about interesting:
It's interesting how standart talking points in the US are those terrible poor people wanting government hand-outs, the virtues of free market economy ... and how one can't trust people who think that they have a right to profit off the knowledge they worked months or years for.
Also: poor people are probably lazy and waiting for hand-outs, rich people are virtuous and productive (e.g. by creating a `social` network to spread gossip and misinformation), but anything that I want to have should be available for free.
and all those people come from farming communities where people worked hard physical labour and slept when it went dark and got up when it was light its the total way of life that matters not one single thing that counts plus less stress because that is a massive killer
I love how the meats/fish and cheeses these people also eat was conveniently left out. Face it the blue zones are balanced diets not vegan.
Just like a really smart guy said, it's not only what you eat, but what you don't eat. And I would like to add the way of life. They almost all live on islands, that is relaxed and natural, are religious, and have strong social bonds. If I eat the best food, but still go to work to be bullied by my boss, backstabbed by my colleagues, and return home to be isolated from my neighbors and exploited by my friends and family, there's still no happiness
maybe that's why we have Yehoshua/Jesus Christ Messiah
excellent point.
The American Dream is certainly not all that it's cracked up to be. But since housing is so expensive here, it requires 2 jobs for some just to be able to pay the rent. Yet people continue to come here from other countries for a "better" life.
Nicely said.
So true.
i been eating ground up walnuts, mixed nuts, dried cranberries, blue berries, and cherries, along with chia seeds mixed into this, i found after eating this i dont have " junk food "cravings plus i feel fuller,
Pregnant women plz keep away from liver and cranberries
For THEY have most certainly caused your pregnancy, or so sayeth the Holy Virgins, awaiting your martyrdom.
Greetings in Christ Jesus. This was an excellent presentation! As an official supporting ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Christian Church, we appreciate the mention of our faith! For anyone interested, the verse Dan Buettner mentioned was Genesis 1:29. God bless you all!
Is goat cheese a regular part of the diet of 7th day adventists?
@@ColoradoHiker no. According to Genesis 1:29, no. But there are a few Adventists that have variations of the diet, e.g. Lacto-Ovo Vegetarians (have eggs and dairy products)
My grandparents lived to be in their 90's. They never heard of tofu. They ate eggs and meat everyday. They had their own chickens, grew their own vegetables and never had processed food or fast food a day in their life. They didn't smoke. Rare occasions drank wine.
I imagine they also lived before the atom bomb made our atmosphere and oceans full of radioactive fall out as well.
@@k8eekatt No I'm not that old lol. Country living vs city dwellers.
The TOFU MUST be made from Non GMO SOY!! Same problem with soy beans as with corn here in the US. I have a friend that swears she developed breast cancer after she began drinking soy milk.
@@brendastolecki4755 animal milk definitely has a connection with developing breast cancer. In the late 70s the formation was well available; consuming cow milk leads to 15 times increase in breast cancer in women. It was suppressed by the dairy industry so it's hard to even find the studies on the internet. Cancer incidence is rising constantly. 10 years ago the likelihood of a woman developing breast cancer was 1 in 8 now its 1 in 6. Best wishes for your good health!
Well, 4 generations of my family living here in the US has always consumed commercial cow's milk. No one in ANY of the generations through great grandmother's, great aunt's, aunt's, cousins or sisters, myself ever developed breast or ANY type of cancer. I am 65 y o.
The fact that he tried to say red wine is healthy is hilarious. ALL alcohol is poison to the body. The health benefits of drinking red wine are so small that it’s not worth it.
ALL alcohol is poison to the body. ? WOW！That's shocking.
A moderate amount of alcoholic beverages won't hurt you. Even beer is made of barley. If you drink it in moderation, beer (just like wine, spirits, or other alcohol) can have health benefits. "The strongest evidence suggests alcohol of any kind can increase good cholesterol," says Harvard researcher Eric Rimm. Limit yourself to no more than one drink per day for women, two drinks per day for men. One drink is 12 ounces of regular beer.
Lol had a look at the studies that said people who drink live longer then those who don’t drink at all. And the drinkers did live longer and the media picked it up encouraging everyone to have some wine or whatever. I had a closer look at the study and the non drinking group turned out to be reformed alcoholics who had been told not to drink anymore by their doctors because they were in such bad shape so the data has a skewed outcome.
Very healthy talk of the past.but in today's world everything has pesticide and fertilizer.
BUT - corn isn't corn in the US anymore. GMO No!
I guess you can find organic corn if you want.
@@crand20033 not really. Monsanto has genetically contaminated corn all over the world, even in South America where the pollen from engineered crops blows into Native's fields and then Monsanto sues them for stealing their patented gene.
Ethanol to accompany the usual pickling methanol.
Teosinte, ancient brother!
So I grow my corn. But I live on Croatia, Europe.
@@DaPickle6 you are comparing apples to oranges, without having done your homework. Domestication of the past is not the same as GMO-present. In short, you do not know what you are talking about
Lucky for me I have not stress in my life and enjoy sleeping in and eating Omega 3's. I also live in Las Vegas where its so much fun in the sun.
How old are you Jeff Silverberg?
Very nice video. I see that all food displayed on the table is vegetarian: Grains, rice, corn, beans, fruits and vegetables and nuts, especially walnuts, peanuts and almonds.; exactly the food that I eat every day. I am strictly vegetarian. Also, I liked the soup that Italians made, the way it looked, very appetizing, with lima beans
Yesh Prabhu, Bushkill, Pennsylvania
All the food is vegan. No dead animals, dairy or eggs.
@@elpanderohabanero2915 Hi El pandero Habanero. All broth made from meat is rich in animal fat, the fat from butchered animals. Animal fat is not good for humans. If people consume too much fat, they will pay a price in the form of clogged arteries, high blood pressure, and heart attacks.
Yesh Prabhu, Bushkill, Pennsylvania
Most of the Blue Zone peoples and traditional cuisines eat some meat. But it much less than say typical diets of the US or the like. Only Loma Lima group is completely vegetarian. A little select fish occasionally, in particular, will hurt no one, but most likely help. I say select because a lot of fish is fairly to very toxic. Sardines, Wild Alaskan salmon, pollock, and cod are some of the cleanest. There are some nutrients in these fish that are hard to find/source from other sources, whether plant based or meat.
My Grandfather lived to be 101,, he smoked 2 packs a day drank moonshine almost everyday and I shit you not his diet was eating at Denny's twice a day. I remember him pouring corn syrup all over his eggs bacon hashbrowns all of it would be sitting in a corn syrup bath... Explain how this hillbilly was able to live to 101 with this diet...
The Bible diet is the best thing we can do to be healthy thanks for the information
Jehovah knows best; He made us.
Bread and wine
Yes eat and give thanks to the Lord. Cast down the spirit of gluttony
Yah not republican evangelical diet; bacon and beer!!!
God killed off that show and gave Noah permission to eat all the meats he could feed the world. Remember? This is an advert.
They don't consume GMO grains ⚡⚡⚡
I went in a seventh day grocery store once. It was amazing! Best health food store I have ever been in
What kind of a grocery store is that?
@@jasenkavukelic5047 Sounds like 7 day Adventist church
@@jasenkavukelic5047 It's a grocer thats closed 7 days a week
@@dougtilaran3496 That's convenient.
@@jasenkavukelic5047 I live in Costa Rica. The idiots here close the little cafes from 12-1 because it's their LUNCH HOUR
They Saved the Best Example For Last... The Bible is the perfect example for Everything not just what we should Eat..
My grandmother very ordinary diet but still live to a great age
My Dad's brother was 100 and his sister was 99 when they passed away.
Very good presentation by Dan Buettner, based on sound nutrition. I've been on a similar diet since 1978, when I was 35 years of age. I'm in my late 70s now, and my blood tests are constantly good. The last time I had blood tests in August 2021, I was told by the doctor that my blood tests were "perfect"! He told me that my ECG was also "perfect".
I suggest a diet based on whole grains and cereals, beans, fruit and vegetables, nuts such as walnuts and almonds, and plain yoghurt with live lactic cultures plus miso paste and other fermented foods, which are probiotics for healthy bacteria in the gut. A positive attitude and trying to be happy as much as one can also figure in a healthy life-style.
How true,
Do you take any prescription medications?
Do you add any other animal products to your diet?
Ideally there is A LOT of non starchy vegetables in the diet--particularly leafy greens that are very nutrient dense. Ideally modern wheat is avoided (ancient ones ok, and even better if sourdough cultured first). Ideally the easier to digest legumes are more focused on (lentils, green peas, mung beans, aduki beans, etc).
And plenty of physical activity--particularly a blend/balance of high intensity/heart raising stuff, balanced with plenty of gentle, longer duration oxygenation type activities (long walks, gentle swimming, etc).
To this list, I would say that very deep meditation is quite helpful. Very deep meditation can directly stimulate the pineal and pituitary glands, and the well known American psychic/mystic/seer Edgar Cayce, once said in trance, "Keep the pineal gland active and you won't age". And to help that meditation out in stimulating the pineal gland--a specific food was very occasionally recommended. It was dubbed "Mummy food" (long account of why). Essentially was just very well chopped dried, unsulphured figs and dates in equal measures, cooked in water on medium for about 20 minutes with a *little* grain of some kind, and then once cooked, some goat milk to cool. Said to be "almost a spiritual food" for "such developed bodies as this one".
I have found that one can forgo the cooking part, if they have a very high powered blender and very well blend these into a smoothie (you want/need it turned into a paste consistency). Best way to do that, is first with just a few figs and a small handful of dates in water, blended first, then add the rest of the smoothie ingredients.
@@justinw1765 Great comment. Thanks! I’m going to look more into what Edgar Casey said.
And yes, I don’t see enough people under this video commenting on how modern wheat is very problematic. Not only is it very hybridized and high gluten content greater than grains in history, but it has a lot of poisonous glyphosate used on it.
As a vegetarian that minestrone
soup makes me satisfied in just looking at it.Cooked beans and squash are always in my table along with collard greens.
But HEY, I never understood how the lactobacilos can survive the baking in the sourdough bread…
I believe the health comes from the very low gluten
@@TheAmma007 That and it interacts with phytates, as a result more of the minerals and vitamins in the bread are available for absorption.
I am not vegetarian. I have no problem with it.
It’s NOT all about stress !! I know lots of people who have big stress but it’s how they manage it
Seek the Lord and saviour Jesus Christ before it's too late. John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Hell is real and Heaven is also real. You don't want to spend an eternity in Hell torment without God. The only way to escape Hell is to follow Jesus Christ our Lord and saviour. Study the KJV Bible to know more and pray and seek until you find Jesus...
Hel is, in fact the Norse Goddess of the underworld where those who did not die in battle go.
There was no "hell" by that name elsewhere, most certainly not even in the Manichaean or Zoroastrian mideast that spawned the Elohim, the word for the Hebrew and uncountable other tribes south of the Caucasus around the Tigris/Euphrates plain, from which christian jews took their constructions.
The Hebrews themselves abandoned the Elohim Pantheon in favor of the Egyptian mining/melting mystery that brought them iron for weapons, relegating Eli to what we misterm "angels" imaging them as Akkadian winged gryphon types , each with taskes very like the Grek Pantheon, with Gabri-El messenger, like Mercury, and Micha-El , correctly translated as Defender-god.
Yeshu's clearly learned much philosophy from 80-year older Rabbi Hil-El, and the syncretism of this garbled cult is obvious to scholars, including the hebrews, who rejected it, forcing the diadspora of cultists to coastal Greece/Turkey and down along the Nile delta to alexandria and the Copts.
So, get over dumping your messianic cult, which has done so much destruction to the United States that it should be expressly banned.
Thank you Rachael Ray, Dan gave a great job explaining all of the attributes and benefits of taking the most beneficial foods and broke down the topic easily and clearly in a quick amount of time. His Book looks like a Good One to have on Hand. Thank you.
Yes! I could walk away and know what to eat. I hate diets where you feel like you need a nutrition degree to make a meal.
Why do Americans shout all the time?
Love the Blue Zones research and inspiration! My bitter Melon seeds are sprouting, and sourdough rising
I'm pretty sure they as well don't live this car-centered live like most of us do. Driving anywhere on the one hand and block social interactions by building car-centered infrastructure and cities. Social interactions not in an crowded underground station or at tourist attractions, but in your local living area. We shouldn't built cities for cars, but in a human scale.
its not all about the food it also has a lot to do with how you think choose to be positive/ happy and not be stressed and keeping your mind and body active
Yes exactly. Mindset > matter. Most people who reach their hundreds are the most relaxed, kind, and simple individuals. This a big reason why they reached this milestone of old age. Their thinking patterns and gratitude has kept their bodies and minds safe.
How does this explain my grandmother and great grandmother lived to be 96 yet ate lard, potatoes and sausages and smoked and drank whisky, yet my husbands mother and sisters ate healthy Mediterranean diet didn't drink or smoke yet died at around 60, its not just diet its genes and lifestyle.
Yeah, but a pizza makes me happy, and therefore, stress free, so....... ;)
5 words: whole food plant based nutrition.
I eat raw spinach, about 1/2 cup raw almonds, red grapes,taw red onion, broccoli, garlic, avocado and red grapes every single day. I don’t know what it’s doing to support my longevity but I have to have these staples in my diet every single day
See you in next century then 😅
you might want to look into oxalate poisoning. It is a real thing. Spinach and almonds are the worst culprits. Oxalate poisoning causes everything from random pains anywhere in your body to cancer and heart disease. Best keep your gut lining healthy on that food. Leaky gut increases oxalates entering the bloodstream by 60% or more.
Won’t make much difference here, sorry!! The issue is the way we grow
food in the States vs people in the Blue Zones. Their crops are grown organically (just like the old fashion way)
Turmeric, red pepper, maple syrup, and hot water makes a good drink. I don't see a lot of meat on that table!. My friends were meat and dairy consumers, I don't eat these items, I'm living, while they were 20, 30 years younger than I when they died. The problem of being healthy, you are left alone. I wonder if it was worth the effort
I find the fast, loud talk & hyper energy of most Americans, to be difficult to listen to, or be around. Way too intense!
This is definitely not how most Americans talk. Do not generalize.
It’s a timed segment, they have to be fast.
And how come you are watching shows like this? We are like porn to you, you feel disgusted but you can't keep your eyes off of us, isn't it?
Yes! I’m Canadian, and find the English r over the top too. Whenever my English friend visits, everyone in the household is so happy when she leaves! Ha! It’s cause she never shuts up. Some of my American friends r actually tame in comparison. Go figure??
🤔🤣🙏🏼🕊
My last 2 years will be the loneliest years of my life. 🥞💩
Meat is missing in every cuisine that they mentioned
thats because animal food is acidic and if u eat too much your body goes into acidosis which is the basis of all the big diseases. one must stay alkaline in order to stay healthy.
That is bs. My grand grand mother was a cook and ate meat heavily her whole life and died just before reaching 99.
No accident..meat is acidic
@@lazarparachkevov5558 your Grandmother didnt have steroids..and chemicals in her chickens...and question is if is BS WHY is there NO meat in ANY of the foods me mentions..WHY? Because meat is poison!!! Its like eating death itself
Intentionally missing, as this is vegan propaganda. I am mediterranean and I eat all of this but most important part of my diet is animal fat and protein from unprocessed meat and seafood, we eat meat, fish, salads, soups and very little sourdough bread, yes. And minestrone too is not about few beans that you can put in it, the main thing is broth, it is bone broth (so animal fat & protein again) plus spices like oregano and basil, plus some vegetables that are usually just leftovers or you want to empty the fridge, i hope you get it, soup is broth and spices, that is the main, you just add few of anything you find in the fridge. Plus all these regions mentioned in the video are islands, there is seafood, iodine, sunshine involved, again having more effect on longevity than fiber. Plus, if you want to be realistic, you have to analyse what those old people have been eating all their lives and how did they get so far, not what they eat now! My great-grandparents lived almost 100 and when old they were eating very little, maybe two eggs and a salad per day, but when young they were eating a lot of meat, fish, eggs and diary plus soups and salads, lots of pancetta and prosciutto exactly, lot of cheese, they were drinking vine too, no freaking tofu, corn nor beans!
Lots of love from Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, India 🙂🙏💜.
There's more antioxidants in a single blueberry than in a glass of wine. These people are healthy in spite of drinking wine, not because of it. It is because they eat lots of fruit and vegetables, beans, grains, ..etc. and low amounts of fat.
Fats are actually good and necessary for the brain, as well as protein. There is this 108 year old black lady from Alabama or Georgia who eats hotdogs every single day!! Go figure!! Maybe it’s a stress free, get sleep society??
@@LGAussie You of course need some fat otherwise many chemical reactions wouldn't work without it. But you need very little to be healthy, less than 5% of total calories. More than that is not going to make you healthier if you eat enough calories of other food. Lots more than that, like 30-40% of total calories in fat will shorten your life and damage your blood vessels, give you diabetes, fatty liver, etc.
wine is good .. very good
@@donwinston but new research shows otherwise. Higher fat plant based diet with fasting ever now and then and a stress free life increases the life.
@@AnandKumar-bk6td plant based fat? Obviously this is not very much saturated fat unless they're drinking warmed up coconut oil for breakfast every day. There are no studies that demonstrate a high fat diet of any kind will increase your life unless you're comparing it to people who don'y eat enough calories.
The best way to extend longevity is fasting.
Yes, in addition to cold-water swimming and naps.
It not as much what you eat as what you don't. Leave the alcohol , cigarettes ,cigars chewing tobacco ALONE!!!!
Looks delicious! I'm making minnestroni tonight. Very inspiring.
yummy
"The longest living People" = 1Timothy 4:1-5
John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
He missed this vital fact from Okinawa diet: for soy products: either have organic soy bean products are/or the most recommended is fermented soy like nat, tempeh, miso, braised fermented tofu. There's an unhealthy chemical that's absent when fermented while f-foods help gut.
The 3 sisters are also a part of the Iroquois diet and culture here in North America. It's one of the basics of our diet.
If we're going to talk blue zone studies of the 7 most longest living and healthiest cultures on the planet, then I think you're forgetting that all 7 eat an OMNIVOROUS diet...
Not vegetarian
Not vegan
OMNIVOROUS
There's a reason why the vegans continually compare the vegan diet to everything else except a healthy OMNIVOROUS diet.
And the 7th day adventists DO NOT predominately a vegetarian or vegan diet, that fact is pretty easily sourced from their own website.
The vast majority of them eat an omnivorous diet and choose kosher meats. A small minority are vegetarian, even less are vegan.
Please stop spreading rubbish as there is not a single cure anywhere on the planet, never has been, that is the longest living or the healthiest based on a vegan or vegetarian diet. Stop comparing to the western diet of over consumption, excess alcohol, and excess processed food to make things swing in your favour.
Healthiest people and longest lived all fall in the blue zone studies are all omnivores. Healthiest diet is the Mediterranean, again, omnivorous.
Love how he manages to acknowledge God as being one in connection to the Bible I wish we had that back in our culture- no flinching here.