Name: A Remote Island Where People Live Longer?
Uploaded: 2021-01-12T18:36:09.000Z
Duration: 5 min 11 s
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If you take a ferry from Mykonos past landmarks of Greek mythology, you will discover Ikaria, the island where people forget to die.

Ah, place where people live to age 90 at a rate upto four times greater than Americans with a fraction of our rates of dementia and Alzheimer's.

So life expectancy in America 79 we should be able lived in 92.

Somewhere along the line we're leaving 13 years on the table.

And when a National Geographic Explorer named Dan Buechner found this place, something clicked.

So my question is, how do we get those extra 13 years?

And how do we make those extra 13 years, good years?

That one question sent him on a lifelong quest to bring back the secrets of the happiest, healthiest centenarians in the world.

Every time his team found a pocket of longevity, they'd circle it on a map in blue ink.

And they learned that in these blue zones, key lifestyle choices matter just as much.

Be able, articulate your sense of purpose, have daily rituals that reverse the stress of everyday living.

Eat mostly a plant based diet especially beans and nuts.

Uh, eat a huge breakfast, belong to a faith based community.

Put your family first, keep your aging parents nearby and curate a special group of friends, four or five friends who are going to nudge you in the right direction, His lessons stuck with May.

And as I travel the world over the years, I assume that blue zones were only for small, simple, isolated societies where the healthy choice is the only choice.

Things could never work in the modern land of the free home of the Whopper.

Right there is top done wrong radio, bucking the status quo with science and common sense.

Dan has Blue Zone, the entire states of Iowa and Hawaii, 45 American cities, including one of the biggest and unhealthiest in the land.

When I asked for a blue zone in the United States and you told me Fort Worth, Texas, the last, I thought you were pulling my leg when my kids were in high school, I watched their friends just getting more and more out of shape, and that's happening to our whole population, particularly in Texas land.

A chicken fried steak, barbecue and Mexican face when Mayor Betsy Price realized her city full of sedentary and obese smokers ranked near the bottom of national wellness surveys.

She started holding rolling town halls, and then she brought in Dan and blue zones and the response from the room.

All the leaders there up in the 15th floor of the Fort Worth Club was, I don't know.

It sounds like you're taking our freedoms away from us on I said.

And Betsy Price said, No, no, I think we ought to give Dan a chance.

The Republican mayor, Biltmore parks and sidewalks and got behind the Blue Zones idea to create walking school Bus is, which gives seniors a sense of purpose each morning Titans community and gets kids moving thistles.

While the city banned smoking in bars and restaurants, dance team convinced convenience stores in food deserts to sell more fruits and veggies.

He got steak houses to offer more healthy options.

This may be the first time in my life I ever ordered a vegetarian taco, and he taught the folks at Texas Health Resource is that the most coveted parking spots should be the ones furthest away from the building.

You know, doing a row of the Blue zones parking spaces encourages people that just take a little walk.

As a CEO explains this, Onley works with buy in from everyone government, business, faith communities.

And in five years, he says, they've moved up in wellness rankings from 185th in the nation to number 31 saving around $250 million.

If you ask them how they got to be 100 they probably couldn't tell you, right?

They went toe parties during the summer, but they were getting good sleep.

They were eating mostly plant based food.

They were nudged into movement every 20 minutes as a residue of their environment, and we're just trying to take that blueprint from places like Korea and lane it over places like Fort Worth, Texas.

 That is why Dan Buettner is my champion for change, proving that with a few healthy nudges we can all create our own islands or people forget to die. 

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