Amy, it is so nice to connect your name with your face. Nicely done. So proud of you and the work you all continue to do. So meaningful and purpose-filled.

First, just encourage people to eat their ancestral foods (like the centenarians in Sardinia and Costa Rica do), and they'll feel so good that they won't crave junk foods. After being a depressed, carb-craving vegetarian for 35 years, I now eat only Northern European ancestral foods, and I've never been so strong and happy. This is the real key to the Danish happiness-pork, pea soup and sourdough rye, not public policies. Then, as in Denmark, people will be calm and happy, and the appropriate public policies will follow.

@justlearncom

Жыл бұрын

I live in Denmark. Being kind and friendly is also important :)

@davidtaylor4989

Жыл бұрын

Peas are not your ancestral foods. Sourdough also does not come from Denmark. This "ancestral diet" ideology ignores that most European foods are imported from elsewhere. Wheat, peas, etc are not native to that area.

it is really important to keep our mind focuse on how to take care of our body, be a good person helps to live longer also is necessary to have a good control of our mind, feelings and life.

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In Japan, increasingly, the elderly are being abandoned by they children for their careers, aren't they? And the idea of structuring life is stressful. Let kids be kids instead of scheduling their lives and activities. Let them be bored. Stress is the number one cause of disease and modern life is increasingly stressful.

One thing is missing, we're they live, low air pollution, clean drinking water without fluoride.

Distance yourself from commercial interests. Virtually all grains are processed for example, or we wouldn't be able to eat them.

These studies are wonderful. But, the first thing is that here in the USA, in most places, elderly are considered redundant. They are pushed aside to make room for younger generation. They are put in day care places, as though, they were little children, or abandoned in nurshing homes to be drugged, left alone in front of tv or somewhere in the hallway. I.e., the entire attitude toward the elderly is REVERSE compared to the Blue Zones. We do not revere and respect elderly. We see them as useless and as burdens, etc. Furthermore, when people reach certain age, even if they want to work, they are FORCED to retire. Elderly here don't have a purpose. Another point is that in these Blue Zones, there is harmony between all of life's activities. Work is harmonized with play, with socializing, with family time and spiritual time. Here, in the USA, work is EVERYTHING in many places. People leave their homes at 6 a.m., only to return home by 7 p.m., if they are lucky. There is a huge DISHARMONY. Most companies require and what is praised in the USA, is when the employees are flexible, when they can work long hours, work on the weekends, etc. Then, playtime, what play time? Family, what family? Other things, what other things? Everything here is RUSHED, the faster the better. Speed and competition are worshipped. In Japan, in tea ceremony, EVERY single movement is REVERED. What I am saying is that in order for the USA to live longer, healthier and happier lives, the root belief system about what is life, what is human being's purpose, what is important need to be CHANGED!!! Balance, reverence for life, reverence for oneself, reverence for each other, recognizing importance of people, families, friends, fun are the things that need to happen. And by "fun", I don't mean going to the bar and getting so drunk that you don't remember what happened. That's not fun! I mean creative fun, full of laughter and creation and interaction with others. Blue zones' healthy eating is only one of the components. Eating healthy is not going to change things, unless the rest of the cultural goals and ways of living are also changed. Thank you.

@judylloyd7901

4 жыл бұрын

Malgozata, very good points.

Where is this place?

But how many times a day do they eat?

Red wine is not required for the Blue Zone diet. The Seventh Day Adventists are taught to abstain from alcohol by their religion. We should just eat grapes to get the benefits.

Some rather questionable inferences amongst generally good data. A glass of red wine a day may or may not be good for us, but it does look better against the amount most people drink.Also, saying that faith is good is a stretch, and this conclusion is undermined by the fact that she said that any religion will do. That suggests that it is social gathering and community binding is actually the benefit and religion sometimes coincides with that.

@abdallahandrewhouck5578

7 жыл бұрын

Good points. However, they do make social gathering and community a separate point from faith, and I think there's some good reasoning behind that. When people are gathering together during faith-specific functions, they usually engage in activities such as meditation, prayer or singing - all of which have been shown to alter brain architecture (and decreasing the amygdala's contribution to your day-to-day thought patterns) and certain physiological markers, such as an increase in vagal tone.

@joanlynch5271

6 жыл бұрын

Religious beliefs help people live longer because the rituals help to cut down on stress and loneliness. Religion cuts down on psychosis because it teaches contribution, empathy and volunteerism for a common good. Older folks are respected and have a place of respect, that they wouldn't have in retirement elsewhere.

@followme8238

Жыл бұрын

The data says “regularly participation in religion” Assigning significance and interpreting that data is suspect. It seems to me that the speaker herself is not religious, or she didn’t want to alienate any particular religion, or they didn’t have ‘funding’ to delve deeper into the topic - so it was capped with ‘specifics don’t matter, just do something to check this box off and you’ll live longer and healthier’

I think if we could get more Americans out of poverty or near poverty this would be more attainable

@annemccarron2281

9 ай бұрын

All the people, except those in Loma Linda area, live in poverty. The Ikaria population is predominantly unemployed. Their food is very simple and inexpensive in the areas they live as it is in the US. The basic food element in the Blue Zones is beans. Beans are about $10 for a huge bag at Costco. The people in those areas do not allow poverty to prevent them from eating healthy. In reality, the more affluent counties have the worst diet. The poorest counties in the world have the lowest rate of cardiovascular disease. The richest have the highest rates.

I don't like to drink but I'm addicted to social media. Does that count?

@xoliphakathi5614

2 ай бұрын

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Odd she left out Crete where 80-90% of what the eat is meat and they live longer as well.

@flor1da492

5 жыл бұрын

People who eat majority meat diets are in Red Zones. The lowest life-expectancy on the planet. Inuit communities.

@parenting.blossom

2 жыл бұрын

They take balanced diet instead

@annemccarron2281

9 ай бұрын

This was data driven research. The researchers only identified areas where they could validate birth certificates to prove the inhabitants ages. Crete obviously did not have a high percentages of centurions.

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another teds talk with awful sound ! we can't hardly hear her, so frustrating .

@jaapongeveer6203

4 жыл бұрын

You may need a hearing aid because I can hear fine.

@malgozata1875

4 жыл бұрын

it might be your speaker system. There is a computer speaker system AND the actual video speaker system. Check to see if both of them are on, up high.

@hestererlank8354

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with the sound

When people talk about the blue zones, they usually refer to Japan. I was in Ikaria in Greece and I’m not surprised people live long there. But it’s not possible for the capitalistic, perfomance-driven cultures and areas to adapt that. It’s just unrealistic. You gotta move there if you want to live that way. Also in Ikaria they eat meat and fish daily. So this less meat stuff is bullocks

@annemccarron2281

9 ай бұрын

No one is saying you have to live exactly the way they do in any certain area. In reality, the Blue Zones are all very different cultures. Health can be approached in many different ways. The general consensus is you need to engage in the 9 power habits (or as many as possible) which Dan Buttner came up with and talks about in his lectures.

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Went too political right away, policies, resources... Not making super sizes available..? Building designs? Seriously?

Shouldn’t this Ted Talks be headed up by a Blue Zoner who is 97!? This person is not a real example. Sorry not sorry.

Policies: a pretty well spoken lady wants to force people to eat and act the way she and her friends want them to; smacks of coercion and political agenda. “Sustainable” is a buzz word that needs to be unpacked - all these ‘urban redevelopment’ and related things cost big money, most countries (including the USA) already have homeless, working poor, and food scarcity problems. But she’s imagining that the middle class will be happy with all the taxes, forced food choices and social engineering because the are getting a walking loop around a pond.

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