Dan Buettner on living better, longer and kinder with Blue Zones lifestyles | Episode 46

Dan Buettner is a prolific writer, traveler and advocate for the human species. His work with National Geographic led to an interest in areas of the world where people live the longest and most healthy–areas he dubbed Blue Zones. Since then, one of his missions has been to understand the commonalities among those areas and how people in other parts of the world could adopt them and reap their benefits. He calls those common attributes the Power 9.

 

We were interested in Buettner’s work because one of the Power 9 is that people in the Blue Zones eat much less or no meat. Where meat is consumed, it is done so only seldomly and usually entails pork in small portions, each about the size of a deck of cards.

 

Once again, what helps animals helps us all.

 

In this interview, Buettner sits down with Wayne Pacelle, the president and founder of Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy, and host Joseph Grove to talk about the benefits of eating a diet that is as kind to our own bodies as it is to the animals it spares. It comes just as preorders are being taken for his newest book about Blue Zone living, “Blue Zones American Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100.”

 

The book is currently the No. 1 new release in Amazon’s Natural Food Cooking category. With beautiful photography and essays by the author about his experiences, the book makes a great holiday gift for anyone who wants to eat better and at the cost of fewer animals.

 

You can visit Dan Buettner online here: https://danbuettner.com/. He also can be followed on Instagram, @danbuettner.

 

Also: Marty Irby, executive director chief lobbyist for Animal Wellness Action, updates viewers on the organization's legislative efforts at this Congress comes to an end.

 

Music from https://filmmusic.io: "Fearless First" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com); License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)