Dan Buettner

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ZOE Science & Nutrition · 5 daily habits of people who live longer | Dan Buettner · 15 Jan 2026 podcast

They also ate about eight times more tofu than we eat per person in this country.

So that might have something to do with it.

But we did a meta-analysis.

So an average of a lot of dietary studies done over the past hundred years in all five blue zones averaged them out to see, in general, people in blue zones are eating peasant food.

They're not eating, as you might guess, ultra-processed food.

I know there's a lot of talk now about protein, but in Blue Zones, two-thirds of their calories came from carbohydrates.

It was a high-carb diet, which shocks a lot of people, which is to say they were eating mostly whole grains,

greens and garden vegetables, tubers like sweet potatoes, nuts, and the cornerstone of every longevity diet in the world is beans.

So if you want to know what a centenarian ate to live to be 100, I simply say, well, look at what those who've reached 100 have actually eaten en masse, and it gives us a pretty good idea.

The good news is it overlays very well with what Zoe tells us we should be eating.

With scientists like you,

It serendipitously or happily converges on the same eating pattern.

Well, the type of whole grain is different.

Of course, Okinawa, it's mostly white rice.

In Costa Rica, it's mostly corn.

And in the Mediterranean Blue Zone, it's mostly wheat.

But in every case, you have a grain and a bean.

And when you put a grain and a bean together, what do you get?

all the amino acids necessary for human sustenance.

So even though the food stuff is slightly different, it adds up to your main point, very high in fiber, but also plenty of protein, even though it's a high carb diet as well.

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