The Blue Zones Challenge: A 4-Week Plan for a Longer, Better Life

by Dan Buettner, Laura Catrinella (Illustrator)

Overview

In this companion to the number one New York Times bestseller The Blue Zones Kitchen, Dan Buettner offers a four-week guide and year-long sustainability program to jump-start your journey to better health, happiness, less stress, and a longer life.
Get started on the path to a longer, healthier, happier life with this quick start to building your own Blue Zones lifestyle. Dan Buettner, founder of the Blue Zones and author of the New York Times number one best-selling Blue Zones Kitchen, offers the challenge of a lifetime: Build a foundation for better nutrition, more exercise, and a stronger social life that will extend your lifetime by years.
In this easy-to-implement guide, you'll start with the rules of the Blue Zones Challenge, including tips and tricks from the five Blue Zones—locations around the world where people consistently live to 100—advice for setting up a successful kitchen and pantry, and resources for expanding you support network. Then, follow week-by-week prompts to

• Change your diet
• Increase your activity
• Update your living spaces
• Build your social life.

After four weeks—and with the help of easy-to-use worksheets and recipes—you'll see results in your weight, your well-being, and your general health. From there, follow the Blue Zones challenge through the rest of the year with an 11-month sustainability calendar that will continue to encourage you and build upon the foundation you've already started.
What you'll find is living to 100 is easy—it just takes following the Blue Zones way!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781426221941
Publisher:	National Geographic
Publication date:	12/07/2021
Series:	Blue Zones Series
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	48,643
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Dan Buettner is a National Geographic Explorer, a writer, and the founder of Quest Network, Inc. His 2005 cover story for National Geographic magazine, "Secrets of Living Longer," was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. He has appeared on CNN, David Letterman,Good Morning America,Primetime Live, and the Today show to discuss his Blue Zones research, and he has delivered more than 500 keynote speeches over the last 10 years. He is the author of the best-selling Blue Zones Kitchen, as well as The Blue Zones, The Blue Zones Solution, and The Blue Zones of Happiness. He splits his time between California and Minnesota, where you can also find two of the original Blue Zones Project Cities.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Part 1 Why, What, Where, Who, How? 13

Part 2 Welcome to the Blue Zones of the World 27

Part 3 Start the Challenge 57

Part 4 The Next Three Weeks 129

Part 5 Sustinability 193

Sources 250

Acknowledgments 253