A review by 807gmadre
The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People by Dan Buettner

3.0

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.