The Blue Zones

Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest

De: Dan Buettner

Narrado por: Michael McConnohie

Duración: 7 h y 38 m

Resumen del Editor

Award-winning author and researcher Dan Buettner has traveled the world to meet the planet’s longest-lived people, and learned nine powerful yet simple lessons that could put you on the path to longer life. Where did he find them? In the Blue Zones.

Blue Zones are communities where common elements of lifestyle, diet, and outlook have led to an amazing quantity – and quality – of life. Dan Buettner shares the secrets from four of the world’s Blue Zones. Buettner’s extensive study uncovers how these people manage to live longer and better, but found in the everyday things they do: the food they eat, the company they keep, and their very perspectives on life. In The Blue Zones, they become yours to follow for life!

©2010 Dan Buettner (P)2010 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Reseñas de la Crítica

"One of the most hopeful and motivating quality-of-life audio lessons available." ( AudioFile)

Informative and helpful

I binge listened to this book on Audible. I loved the authors storytelling experiences with Centenarians around the globe. Some parts even had me tearing up upon self reflection of what kind of family and life I would love to create for myself. Wonderful book....thank you.

Excellent book and excellent narrator

Amazing book. You don’t need me to tell you. What else is amazing is the Narrator O love his voice. Much better than the narrator for Blue Zones of happiness. Both are great books and highly recommended.

Great Book- Very interesting and enlightening!

This book was a fantastic read. It was very interesting to hear about these blue zones and ended up being very informative. The storytelling nature of the book makes it an easy listen and you will learn a lot!

The Blue Zones

enjoyed it. written like a travel novel cross documentary. Full of fascinating facts about longevity and many characterful sentenarians. I was thrilled that the book summarises practical ways of implementing longevity practices as part of our own daily existence. The performance was entertaining as each character came to life in their authentic personality and quirks.

EXCELLENT!

Really enjoyed listening to this book. It's packed with interesting and useful information and is also very well narrated.

Insightful and delightful

This book is inspirational and surprisingly engaging. I love learning from those who have walked the path before me. The author has a clever way of integrating story and stats. I am motivated to building a strong support system and change the way I live in order to truly thrive.

interesting data of how simple life is meant to be

I think that this book provides sufficient stories about people and lifestyles that would inspire to adopt a better habit for eating socializing working and generally and simply putting it living.

Eye Opening

This book was amazing! As someone who (thinks) she loves a healthy lifestyle, I learned so much.
Highly recommend.

Great book.

Great book to live by. I already started implementing everything I listened to into my life. I just wish the reader (if it was a real person) would have pronounced “Lived” correctly instead of “live” like the word “jive” That kept driving me crazy. Another than that, I highly recommend

Green Light for Blue Zone

What made the experience of listening to The Blue Zones the most enjoyable?

This book's merit rests on its interesting content, in my opinion, rather than its prose or overall delivery. The speaker was OK but the performance was not as important as having something worthwhile to contribute on this important subject.
I was surprised to discover some of the societies and cultures referred to in the book are under attack by modern lifestyles and are in danger of disappearing. For example younger Okinawans are no longer blessed with the probability of living to 100+ years anymore because the majority have adopted western ways and so have succumbed to modern health issues like heart disease etc.. Therefore the book is a useful reference source for a vanishing world.
I am sure there are 'drier' academic papers on specific Blue Zones but this effort was engaging as it gave an all round view of the subject from a humanistic viewpoint.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Although efforts at storytelling were appreciated I really wanted facts and on this point the book was able to deliver. However the author did also make mention of some fascinating centenarians and that helped keep the momentum going.

Any additional comments?

Anybody who has reached an age when longevity seems important will benefit from this book as the authentic research it includes, whilst not strictly speaking "scientific" is full of anecodotal advice which I think many will find useful. I say this because I did. For example now I always bring a bag of nuts with me to work as a snack rather than eat biscuits or pastries. Its a small change but add them all up and its greater than the sum of its parts.
Granted some things like a glass of red wine indulged by Sardinians daily is now common knowledge but overall there were enough suggestions to keep me busy with further research for some time to come.