The Blue Zones Challenge: A 4-Week Plan for a Longer, Better Life Paperback – December 7, 2021

My husband read this in 2 days, I am in the middle. Good advice for healthy living and interesting. Hoping to follow the challenge soon!

Learn the behaviors that support longevity. This is a fascinating and entertaining read that will inspire you to get moving, connect with others, and eat good food.

Great material, but I have some concerns:1. 7 teaspoons of added sugar is A LOT! I don't see how a healthy diet can have that much added sugar, a highly processed product, every day.2. If your diet needs to supplement essential vitamins and minerals in form of a pill, it's not healthy. Sorry. A diet should have everything available through nutrition alone. So maybe a small amount of fish, meat and eggs is actually important to provide the body with vitamin B12, omega 3s, calcium and iron. You can't get enough of these essentials on a 95 to 100% plant based diet.3. If you are going to go for a totally vegan diet, you need some guidance as to what supplement. I don't see that in this book. So all these well intentioned readers want to go gun-ho on this diet, they really need additional support to ensure their bodies get what it's needed.So here we are again-a well intentioned lifestyle sell, but again it falls short.Don't get me wrong-I love all his books and I think there is a lot of good advice. I think there is a tremendous amount of misinformation out there. But, like everything else, take everything with a little grain of salt.

I am obsessed with learning more and more about the Blue Zones and longevity and healthy living! This book turns to the reader to challenge and encourage healthy living! Love it!!

Great information on blue zone lifestyles! And nutritional changes everyone can make!

I enjoy the stories about the different blue zone people and their lives but trying to turn those studies and stories into an actual equation for longer life is a stretch. I do love the connections made to your health about community and building better relationships but all the rest has been said before and in much more helpful depth. The book promises to be founded on strong empirical evidence but that is not the case when talking diet. If you’re looking for ways to improve your diet and improve your health there are far better books and people to study from like Tim Ferriss or Peter Atia- they’ll give you a very granular picture of the why not just some “because a 100 year old did it”. I did find a few good recipes so there is that, and I very much appreciate the go ahead to drink wine but again this is not new. I would suggest this to someone very new to self-help books, who’s looking for a different slant on the healthy lifestyle (I.e. not all diet related).

It is what it says and is worth the read.

Quick read with new ideas to ponder (and implement!)