How to eat like the world’s oldest people
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National Geographic Fellow and Blue Zones author (and Minnesota native) Dan Buettner has travelled across the world to try to figure out what leads to a long, long life.
One important factor is what you eat.
Four common elements can be found on tables across the world in communities where people regularly live to be one hundred: beans, whole grains, greens, and nuts.
Buettner compiled a hundred recipes to make these elements delicious in his newest book, “The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100.”
MPR’s Cathy Wurzer spoke to Buettner about the recipes.
Hear their conversation by clicking the audio player above.
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