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Dan Buettner and The Blue Zones

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The Blue Zone American Kitchen

I just wrote a book I'm very proud of called the Blue Zone American Kitchen where I spent 150 hours at NYU with another researcher to articulate an alternate standard American diet as eaten by immigrants. 100 years ago we're eating essentially a blue zones diet and this captures that diet and then 100 more recipes lived 100 uniquely American. These cultures have been largely overlooked there was a um scientist named Atwater who did dietary surveys 120 years ago so we actually captured what these people were eating with some precision and brought back their diet. Here's these under-celebrated people who eating in a way that could save about a half a million American lives a year if we would eat that way wow that's incredible

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