Summary These People Tried The Blue Zones Diet For 3 Months: See What Happened | TODAY (Youtube) www.youtube.com
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n/a Dan Buettner says he's found the recipe for how to reach a happy and healthy recipes around the world where people seem to defy the limits of age.
Dan Buettner Without heart disease, cancer, diabetes, or any of these diseases plaguing American, and this is what they eat. I sat in your kitchens. This is beyond a shadow of a doubt what people were eating to live to a 100. We're seeing 500 years of wisdom concentrated into 1 bowl.
n/a Those recipes, all in his new book, The Blue Zone's Kitchen.
Dan Buettner This is the traditional Korean diet.
n/a But can eating the same meals here at home add years to our lives? We teamed up with Dan in Naples, Florida.
Dan Buettner The secret sauce is blending them the way the Koreans do it. We showed them how to make some of the dishes, but more importantly, we helped them choose 3 or 4 other people. And all we did was challenge them to have at least 5 potluck dinners together where they cook from the book.
n/a A 10 week challenge
Dan Buettner This is what centenarians really eat.
n/a Involving about a 100 volunteers. Everyone was split into groups called Moais.
Dan Buettner A Moai is an idea of bringing 4 or 5 friends together. If you could put that in a pill, it'd be a pharmaceutical blockbuster. Because, you know, loneliness in this country shaves about 8 years off your life expectancy. In 1980, the average American had 3 good friends they can count on. We're now down to under 2.
Dan Buettner We're spending all of our time sucked into our little devices. We have to resume that connection. And if we can resume that connection around healthy food, we kill 2 birds with 1 stone.
n/a Hi. I'm Lisa, and I'm 50 years old. Armed with video cameras
n/a Chickpeas, olives, tomatoes.
Dan Buettner Longevity stew. And recipes from
n/a the blue zones, the Moais gathered and encouraged each other.
Dan Buettner I mean, it's really good.
n/a Your neighborhood or your community has to be on board eating the same way. Otherwise, it won't work.
Dan Buettner Diets fail almost all the people, almost all the time. What seems to work in blue zones, not only knowing that a largely whole plant food diet is gonna help you live long.
n/a And then
Dan Buettner you need to have a social network around this way of
n/a eating. Wow.
n/a 3 months later, Dan returned to see the results, reuniting with 3 women who vowed to stick with that 10 week Happened, Jeanette, Joanne, and Lisa.
Dan Buettner 3 months ago?
n/a It's a little painful for me to look at it, but look at that.
n/a What happened?
n/a I lost £12.
Dan Buettner That's amazing.
n/a Cholesterol, down 22 points. Wow.
n/a Yeah.
Dan Buettner Starting to eat this way, she started to make other changes in her life, more physical activity. She's really set up, I think, for a long term success.
n/a I'm making black bean salad and
n/a As for Jeanette, who says she used to feed her family fast food most nights before.
Dan Buettner She really adopted it in a big ways.
n/a I lost £17. £17. Wow. That
Dan Buettner is. That's amazing. That's over a pound a week.
n/a I feel happy. I feel energized. I'm out. I'm adventurous. I go places.
n/a I do things. I'm excited about it.
n/a We don't allow any soda. But the biggest change came from Joanne.
Dan Buettner A lot's changed since I saw you 3 months ago.
n/a Absolutely.
Dan Buettner YouTube lost a lot of weight.
n/a Yeah. Like £37. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
n/a Not only did she lose the weight, her entire attitude and presentation changed.
Dan Buettner We helped get her out of pain. We helped her look better, build her self esteem, and then her well-being followed her.
n/a I had to get rid of so many different clothes. That felt good.
n/a What's your hope for this book? To spend all this time traveling all around the world to get it just right.
Dan Buettner I have discovered something that I truly believe can improve the human condition. The secret to eating for longevity is to eat simple foods every day for years or recipes, like people in the blue zones do.
n/a While the
n/a women we talked to saw the most dramatic change, everyone who stuck with the program for 3 months also reported weight loss. But I think the thing that's the most exciting anyway to me is that they all reported kind of emotional well-being went up.
n/a Yeah. Yeah. I love that. I love the emotional
n/a I've been eating a lot of that beans since, we did this story. It's actually pretty easy to incorporate Happened you kinda find yourself, you know, eating lentils and brown rice and going, oh, it's unusually much better than you thought.
n/a And Maria likes very simple foods. Yes. Okay. She doesn't like anything fancy, so it's
n/a for whatever Maria is doing we want to do a good right
n/a now. The blue zones kitchen, it's on today dot com slash shop tomorrow, Dan will be here in
n/a our kitchen is going to share some of
n/a those make blue zone dishes
n/a very cool to try.