by: Leanne Delap
Author Dan Buettner is back, sharing lessons learned from remarkable elders he has met in a trio of unexpected Blue Zones.
Dan Buettner’s 30-year mission in life has been to interview extremely old people about how they got to be that way. He tapped an international super-team of academics to crunch and interpret data points to identify the world’s “longevity all-stars,” meaning centenarians who hail from places he calls Blue Zones, which are demographic hot spots of long-living communities. Then he set about distilling the best practices of these outliers into bullet point-friendly action plans for North American audiences and policy makers to replicate the happiest of conditions.
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