
Lessons from the Blue Zones…and My Grandmother
As part of my nutrition work, I have been very interested in longevity research. How can people learn to live into their 90s, or even to over 100 and still be healthy? Dan Buettner worked with a team from National Geographic. They identified five areas in the world that have an unusually large proportion of centenarians. They popularized this research in the book The Blue Zones by Beuttner. Four areas were in relatively isolated regions in the countries of Italy, Japan, Costa Rica and Greece. The fifth Blue Zone is in the Seventh Day Adventists community of Loma Linda, California. I have had a type of “blue zone” in my