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The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People
Dan Buettner
3.84 AVERAGE
70 reviews for:
The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People
Dan Buettner
3.84 AVERAGE
Probably a better book to own than to listen to. My community is becoming or going through the Blue Zones Initiative so wanted to read to understand.
This book is an amazing compilation of Buettner's research and gives great MANAGEABLE advice on how to eat healthy and BE healthy. It's brought a sense of calm to me that I did not know was inside me. I highly recommend this book to anyone but especially those who struggle with food in one way or another.
3/5 stars - Great information, but there was nothing specific that was within these pages. Someone could easily Google the Blue Zones and get the exact same information. Lacked depth.
See my review for Buettner's book "The Blue Zones."
This book represents the information that Buettner has already gone over in his previous book. Like "The Blue Zones" this book contains almost no useful information about centenarians and relies on misrepresentations of diet history and the real data of longevity in every Blue Zone mentioned.
One star, would not recommend.
This book represents the information that Buettner has already gone over in his previous book. Like "The Blue Zones" this book contains almost no useful information about centenarians and relies on misrepresentations of diet history and the real data of longevity in every Blue Zone mentioned.
One star, would not recommend.
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PROMISED A LOT MORE INFO ON PUBLIC HEALTH THAN IT ACTUALLY GAVE. RELATED: I WOULDN'T BRAG ABOUT BEING A LONGEVITY EXPERT TILL I WAS AT LEAST 80
This book was a birthday gift and it's the only one of the "Blue Zones" series that I've read. The original longevity study on which the solutions are based is a very interesting piece of research. My maternal Baba lived to 103 years old with all her marbles intact as did many other residents from her own Blue Zones area, the rural southwestern hamlet of Senkiw, Manitoba, Canada. But, the "Baba Diet" was heavy in meat (from the animals raised on the farm), red and white potatoes (plus other vegetables and pulses from two football stadium-sized gardens, watered by hand and preserved by drying, storing in the root cellar or canning), loaves of fluffy homemade white bread (and other baked goods), butter and cream (made from milk fresh from the cow and separated in the barn) and lard...LOTS of lard!--pretty much the antithesis to this book's eating recommendations, so the jury is still out! I am still looking forward to trying out the many recipes provided at the back of the book.
As health and longevity books go, this one is entertainingly written and easy to understand. Falling into my category of "kind of science-y and I like it" reads. It's not preachy. It is adaptable to one's life. It's easy to remember.
I didn't make any of the recipes, because I've been cooking vegetarian for a long time and have my go-to's at hand. For a really good vegan cookbook, I can't recommend Laura Wright's The First Mess highly enough. Or check her website.
I didn't make any of the recipes, because I've been cooking vegetarian for a long time and have my go-to's at hand. For a really good vegan cookbook, I can't recommend Laura Wright's The First Mess highly enough. Or check her website.
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it was very informative. as a gym person, i tend to focus on protein intake a lot, but this book helped me understand the importance of fiber. also the book suggests lifestyle changes anyone can implement to live longer and healthier life.