The Blue Zones solution : eating and living like the world's healthiest people

Summary: "Buettner [proposes that you may] transform your health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities he's identified as 'Blue Zones'--those places with the world's longest-lived, and thus healthiest, people: [Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Loma Linda, California; and Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica]"-- Amazon.com.

Record details

ISBN: 9781426211928 (hbk.)
ISBN: 1426211929 (hbk.)
Physical Description: print
319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-312) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Discovering the Blue Zones solution -- Discovering the Blue Zones. The secrets of a Mediterranean diet : Ikaria, Greece ; A diet from the world's longest-lived women : Okinawa, Japan ; A diet from the world's longest-lived men : Sardinia, Italy ; An American Blue Zones diet : Loma Linda, California ; History's best longevity diet : Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica -- Making an American Blue Zone. Finland's miracle makeover ; The Minnesota Experiment ; Thriving in the beach cities ; Blue Zoning the Pork State -- Building your own Blue Zone. Food rituals : how to eat to 100 ; Blue Zones menus : meals and snacks ; Blue Zones living : a design for easy health -- Blue Zones recipes. 77 easy, delicious recipes -- The science behind the Blue Zones solution.