Dan Buettner

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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast · Dan Buettner: Daily Habits That Defy Aging, Boost Health, and Happiness | Health and Wellness | E366 · 1 Sep 2025 podcast

What I've done with National Geographic is found the five areas where people live the longest.

And then in my current book, The Blue Zone's One Pot Meal, you'll see in the introduction, I cite a meta-analysis we did.

If you want to know how to eat to be 100, you have to know what a 100-year-old ate their entire life.

You can't just ask them what they're eating lately.

You have to know what she was eating as a little girl.

and a young adult and middle age and lately.

So to get at that, we aggregated or found 155 dietary surveys done in all five blue zones over the past 100 years.

So we know what people were eating in the 30s and the 50s and the 70s, et cetera.

And when you average that out, which we did with Harvard, we found that about 90% of all the calories they consume come from plant-based sources.

So the five pillars of every longevity diet in the world are whole grains, corn, wheat, and rice, greens and garden vegetables, tubers like sweet potatoes.

In Okinawa, the longest-lived women in the world, about 70% of their calories came from one food and one food alone, purple sweet potatoes.

Nuts as a snack, and then the cornerstone of every longevity diet in the world is beans.

And if you're eating a cup of beans a day, it's worth about four extra years of life expectancy.

People in blue zones did eat meat, but only about five times per month.

So a little more than once a week.

Meat was a celebratory food.

And over the course of the year, they ate about 20 pounds of meat.

Most of it was pork.

from their own pigs was industrial raised meat.

We in America, however, eat about 240 pounds of meat a year, about 11 times more meat than they do in the blue zones.

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