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Dan Buettner

Dan Buettner

Dan Buettner is a National Geographic Fellow and the author of multiple New York Times bestselling books, including The Blue Zones, Thrive, and The Blue Zones Kitchen. He has discovered the five places in the world—dubbed Blue Zones—where people live the longest, and are healthiest. Buettner works in partnership with Sharecare, municipal governments, and insurance companies to implement the program in more than 50 cities in North America, and has dramatically improved the health of millions of Americans. His work has been highlighted on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America, Dr. Oz, NPR, and Oprah. Find him on Instagram and LinkedIn.

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    5 Blue Zones Hacks to Promote a Longer, Healthier Life
    Editor’s Note: For more than 15 years, journalist and National Geographic Fellow Dan Buettner has studied what he dubbed the world’s blue zones—regions where an unusually high proportion of people live past 100—to identify the driving factors behind longevity. His new book, The Blue Zones Challenge, distills his research into a program for living a […]
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  • Blue Zones Diet Okinawa Excerpt 1

    Dispatch from Okinawa: What the World’s Longest-Lived Women Eat
    Editor’s Note: Dan Buettner’s new book, The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100, presents favorite dishes from the world’s longest-lived populations. The following is an excerpt from the chapter on Okinawa: home to the world’s longest-lived women and an unusually high concentration of centenarian men.  Combining subtle flavors from Southeast Asia, East […]
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    Sweet Potato Bites
    Sweet potatoes accounted for 60 percent of the Okinawan diet until about 1950. This slightly sweetened preparation is delicious and can serve as a dessert or snack. On our last visit to this Blue Zones region, we watched the potatoes cooking and were uninspired until Jordan, a Hawaiian who lives on the island, produced two […]
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  • Three Mango and Black Bean Tacos, each on a small piece of parchment paper, against a pale blue wooden background, with fresh mango, avocado, and lime dotted around them

    Mango and Black Bean Tacos
    The cornerstone of every Blue Zones diet in the world? Beans. There are at least 70 varieties of beans to choose from and an infinite number of ways to prepare them. Here’s one delicious recipe to spark your bean-spiration. Recipe adapted from Blue Zones.
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