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lnterested io joining this dub?
Enterjoumalist Dan Buettner. He
has speat orrer a decade studying

the healthiesg longest-living

people arouad the world from
residents oftheJapanese island of
Okinawa to the Greekisland of
Ikaria–+o-called Tlue Zones,”
orlongevity hotspots (Sardinia,

Loma Linda, Calif and Nicoya,
Cosa Rica are the others),where
people live to 100 or older at much

higher-than-average rates.

“These aren’t the frail elderiyr”
he says. “They’re still working,
riding bikes, socializing, having
sex and enjoyrng life.”

Since 2009, Buettner has
taken the Blue Zones lessons to
a few U.S. cities, transforming
their residents’health. Now, he’s
letting the rest of us in on their
secrets in his new boolq 7/a
Blue Zones Solution: Eating and
Living Likz tlte World’s Healtbiest
P e op I e (N aaonal Geographic
Books). Here are the most
important longevity-boosting
habits of centenarians around
the globe. Adopt even a ferar, and
you’Il stand a better chance of
celebrating your 1006 birthday.

l. FindYourftibe
“Mho you hang out with trumps
just about everything else when
it comes to your health,” says
Buettner. He found that the
people who live longest surround
themselves with people who
support healthy behaviors, and
other research bacfts that up:
When psychologists at Brigham
Young University reviewed 148
studies on social relationships,
they found that those with
stronger connections were half as
likely to die is those with weaker
ties during the study periods.
One orplanation: “Health

habits-both good and bad-
can spread like a contagion,”
says NoahWebster, Ph.D., an
assistant research scientist at the
University of Michigan’s Life

are 95 percent plant-based,
says Buetrner. “They eat a little
meat, but mosdy fishr”he says.
British researchers tracked
65,000 people for 12 years and

of death-cancer
and car&ovascular

aging,” says Valter Longo, Ph.D.,

director of the UniversitY of
S outhem C alifornia’s L ongevitY

Institute, whose studies have

shown that people with the
highest protein

highest risk
ofcancer and
mortality compared
with those who eat
the least.

Never learned to
love veggies? Take

Course Development Institute found that those
for Social Research. who ate seven or

boosting effect offriends in fruits every day
ultra-o1d Okinawans, who form lowered their risk
azaazs (rhyrnes with “doe eyes”)- ofdying from the
groups of lifelong alliances. It’s two leading causes
a concePt he

inAmerican
has introduced
cities, including

Redondo Beach, Calif., where disease-by 25
Joan Edelman lives. More than percent and 31
four years ago, Edelman and percent.
her husband met a handfi:l of
strangers at a Blue Zones

walked four miles four. days a
since-“There are 13 of

us, rangmg from our 40s to 80s,”
says Edelman, 67. “We’ve become
very close.Mhen someone has a
crisis,we show up.”.

Centenarians from Blue
Zones also ake a&antage of
the life-giving power of social
connections in other wqis:
They belong to a faith-based
commudty (attending services
four times a month can add up
to 14 yean to your life, Buettner
salrs) and have dose-knit families.

“Extended families live near
iach other, ifnot together, and
they invest time and energy not
only in their children but in their
parents, grandparents and li:[e
partners,” Buettner says. Just
committing to a life partn€r can
add up to tfuee years to your Iife,
according to our research,”

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The worldt most robust L00-
year-olds stickwith diets that

“Protein, especially from formed a rnonthly poduck zaai
animal sources, activates two a couple ofyears ago. “We have
sets ofgenes that accelerate a group of 12 peoplg andwe

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Downsize your dishes Nudge yoursetf toward eating [ess by using
ptates no [arger than 1 0 inches lresearch shows it can reduce the-
amount you consume by 22 percent).

Get more sociat You don’t
have to go far to bring
more people into your
Life. Join a ctub or take a
ctass, says journalist Dan
Buettner. “l’ve increased
my sociaI network just
by ptanting a community
garden in front of my
house.” frightl

Make movement a no-
brainer “Coax yoursetf
into moving more by taking pubtic transportation, which requires
watking to and from your house, or maintaining a garden or
buying a dog who needs a daiLy watk,” says Buettner.

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