MedPage Today February 17, 2025
— What’s needed is an environment “that makes the healthy choice the easy choice”
Much of what people have been taught about making America healthier is wrong, Dan Buettner, the originator of the term “Blue Zones,” told members of the Senate Aging Committee Wednesday.
Why are the people in Blue Zones living 10 years longer than Americans? “Because they’re avoiding the diseases that shorten Americans’ lives and are bankrupting us in many ways,” Buettner, of Miami, Florida, said at a hearing on “Optimizing Longevity: From Research to Actionopens in a new tab or window.”
What are they doing? “Well, none of them are dieting or exercising or running down to Latin America for stem cell treatments,” he said. Instead, “every...
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