Dan Buettner
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1,467 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 18 Jan
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Every other time it's been tried.
And the National Institutes on Health has actually financed six heart-healthy projects in the 80s.
I actually know the guy who ran it.
His name is Henry Blackburn.
Yeah.
He just turned 100, by the way.
He's still a friend of mine in Minnesota.
What happens, Eric, is you get sort of the health equivalent of the Hawthorne effect.
When people are paying attention and the cameras are rolling and the experts are there and people kind of change their behavior, but a year later, it just goes back to baseline.
And my teams, their job is to make permanent changes to the environment.
This takes a long time.
So we hire well-trained people for five years.
And there are a number of what we call process metrics.
So what would be an example process metric?
The city's got to pass between six and eight policies that favor healthy food over junk food.
Another six to eight policies that favor the pedestrian over the motorist.
And another six policies that favor the non-smoker over the smoker.
So that might take three or four years.
Then in order to get certification, Gallup measures something called the Well-Being Index, WBI.
It's 20 different facets.
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