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About Dan
Dan Buettner is an explorer, National Geographic Fellow, award-winning journalist and producer, and New York Times best-selling author. He discovered the five places in the world—dubbed blue zones hotspots—where people live the longest, healthiest lives. His articles about these places in The New York Times Magazine and National Geographic are two of the most popular for both publications.
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.
The Blue Zones Kitchen One Pot Meals
This mouthwatering cookbook features 100 quick and easy plant-based recipes inspired by the blue zones regions, many made in 30 minutes or less.
Perfect for busy families, health-minded home cooks, culinary enthusiasts, and anyone interested in eating the Blue Zones way, this is a cookbook that will change your diet—and your life.
The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer
In The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer, Buettner returns to Sardinia, Italy; Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa, Japan; Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula; and Loma Linda, California to check in on the super-agers living in the blue zones and interprets the not-so-secret sauce of purpose, faith, community, down-time, natural movement, and plant-based eating that has powered as many as 10 additional years of healthy living in these regions. And Buettner reveals an all—new blue zones region—the first man-made blue zones yet explored.
The Blue Zones American Kitchen
In The Blue Zones American Kitchen cookbook, Buettner uncovers the traditional roots of plant-forward cuisine in the United States. Following the acumen of heritage cooks who have passed their recipes from generation to generation, Buettner explores the regions and cultures that have shaped America’s healthiest food landscapes, from Hmong elders living in Minnesota to Quakers in New England. Along the way, he illuminates both traditional and revolutionary ideas in vegetarian food with recipes from chefs like James Beard Award–winner James Wayman, “the Gullah chef” Bill Green, and “the Cod Chef” Dave Smoke-McCluskey.
The Blue Zones Challenge
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 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.
The Blue Zones Kitchen
Dan Buettner has gathered 100 recipes inspired by the original blue zones regions, home to the healthiest and happiest communities in the world. Each dish uses ingredients and cooking methods proven to increase longevity, wellness, and mental health. Innovative, easy to follow, and delicious, these healthy living recipes make the Blue Zones lifestyle even more attainable, thereby improving your health, extending your life, and filling your kitchen with happiness.
The Blue Zones of Happiness
In this inspiring guide, you’ll find game-changing tools drawn from global research and expert insights for achieving maximum fulfillment.
Discover specific, science-based strategies for setting up a “life radius” of community, work, home, and self to create healthier, happiness-boosting habits for the long-term.
The Blue Zones - Paperback
Living an active, full life well into your 90s—and possibly your 100s—may be easier than you think. Longevity expert Dan Buettner has traveled the world to meet the planet's longest-lived people in unique communities called blue zones, where common elements of lifestyle, diet, and outlook have led to an amazing quantity—and quality—of life. The nine powerful yet simple lessons he reveals in The Blue Zones can put you on the path to a healthier, happier life.
The Blue Zones Solution
Dan Buettner lays out a proven plan to maximize your health based on the practices of the world’s healthiest people. For the first time, Buettner reveals how to transform your health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities he’s identified as blue zones—those places with the world’s longest-lived, and thus healthiest, people.
Filled with moving personal stories, delicious recipes, checklists, and useful tips that will transform any home into a miniature blue zones, The Blue Zones Solution is the ultimate blueprint for a healthy, happy life.
Thrive - Paperback
What lifestyle secrets can we learn from the world’s happiest people? In Thrive, Dan Buettner reports on the surprising findings from his five-year global study on the keys to personal happiness.
In addition to sharing his extraordinary accounts of the happiest people on the planet, Buettner details how to incorporate these powerful characteristics into our daily routine so that we, too, can Thrive.