Blue Zones Debunked: The “Longest Lived” People AREN'T Eating a Plant-Based Diet | Jayne Buxton

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In her twenty years as a published author she has written on a wide variety of subjects.

Jayne is the author of The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants-only diet won't improve your health or save the planet.

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[uhai]

My family in Lebanon all lived to their late 90s and even passed 100. They primarily ate meat, dairy, fruit and much less veggies than people would think.

[artspark]

I'm just so tired of conflicting information and tired of being afraid of my food.

[davidgifford]

Okinawa Blue Zone is a prime example. After WWII their diet was examined, it was was mostly plant based. However that was because they had had to eat all their food animals to stay alive. As soon as they could the Okinawans reverted back to their traditional diet that was heavily pork based.

[yikes]

I watched the blue zones documentary on netflix. I found it interesting that he kept talking about plant based diet while watching the residents herding and milking goats sheep and cattle. LOL😁

[RobbsHomemadeLife]

I think the biggest overlooked factor in longevity is the prevalence of social support groups and family and a feeling of belonging and a sense of place. I think mental health is so important for aging well. I don't remember the name of the study but it took place in Pennsylvania and the name of the town had the name Rose in it I'm not sure if it was Roseland or something like that. It was in Pennsylvania. The interesting thing was the study showed the people in the community were very healthy and lived a long time as opposed to people in other communities and the only factor that seemed to set them apart was that most of the people that lived there had been there for ages and they all live close to their relatives and grandparents and aunts and uncles and nieces and everybody knew everyone else and everybody helped and listen to each other and had a sense of community. They had a poor diet. They did not exercise any more than anybody else. But their heart disease was much less than anybody else. It was just one study. It's so much easier to look for a pill or a diet to try to live longer or even exercise an overlook the need to care for and be cared about by others.

[rogerlewis]

Back in the 1960s my Aunt and Uncle worked in France for about five years. They lived in a large town south west of Paris and I remember them telling me about the food. They bought everything fresh from the market which they said was great, and they received a lot of help from the locals they met there. The people ate a lot of meat and very rarely trimmed of the fat, which they were not used to but became accustomed to it. The region was known for its beef and mutton stews and all the fat went into them. Most of the men smoked a lot. Cancer and heart disease were very rare. Since then I have been very sceptical of the low fat claims. This is also the type of food eaten in most of the Mediterranean region.

[keywestfan]

If you look at the background data on “Blue Zones”, the longevity aspect is best supported by their level of activity/exercise, specifically walking. 3:57

[evanhadkins]

The Blue Zones doesn't claim that all the Blue Zones are vegetarian. Only that the diet is mainly vegetables and fruit. The US one is vegetarian. The mediterranean ones have fish and some meat (and lot of olive oil).

[DrAJ_LatinAmerica]

Doesn't matter if we call them Blue Zones or "F" Zones. What is 100% fact, there are 10 zones around the world with free living people, who have large populations of people living past 100. After that point, is when people start to tell lies. What appears clear, none are 100% carnivore or 100% vegan. Yes, less stress, eat less and move more, and very social.

[cheri]

As I recall in that movie the guy shows these older people exercising, getting sunlight, and having a good sense of community. Yes these people grow veggies but aren't limited to a plant based diet from what I remember. No chemicals in foods where he looked at aging communities.

[LifeandLiesSyra]

Im from Sardinia and all this plant based lies enrage me. Our main disges are suckling pig, sheep cheese, lambs, goats and fish for the coastal area. Do we eat veg? Surely but they are sides and exclusively seasonal. Obv modernity increased variety but those are the traditional dishes and no animal was ever wasted.

[sandratorrentes]

I believe that the main distractor in the discussion on the key element that blue zones share is precisely the fact that there isn't one single factor but many. Knowing first hand one of these zones, Nicoya, to be specific I can assure that this centenarians do not over eat, they have a moderate dayly physical activity, mostly related to nature, they slepp soundly, their extended family and community embrace them and on top of that they have a joyful and playful attitude, they looove life. Another thing, some people have suggested that this citizens don't have access to medic care, which is not true, because Costa Rica's social security in not only universal but free for all older citizens, finally I've heard that there is no way of knowing for sure their "real age" because they could be making it up, that could be true if we didn't have, since 1888 a Civil Registration department that has confirmed their date of birth. It's not about one particular food, but about many little, grand details. 🇨🇷

[Docinaplane]

My dad lived to 97 mentally sharp and living independently till the last day. He ate a healthy omnivore diet as well as doing other things like adequate sleep, activity sociality, etc.

[tallcedars]

It's interesting that France & Italy has 15% calories as processed foods, 55% in the UK, while the US has 60% calories of processed foods. It looks like our food is designed as a marketing scheme. It's good to avoid putting money in their pockets, while we avoid poisoning ourselves.😉

[annadounaevskaia]

I was visiting Rome past May. Ate on our own . We're in some grocery stores. Is it very different from State's ones ? NOPE. lots of same boxes and packages. In the dinners/ buffets lots of sweets, breads of all sorts. I don't see much difference in eating habits in there. At least in Rome .

[theostapel]

'Add life - to your years - instead of years - to your life' (Ram Chandra)
It is always a matter of attitude, isn't it ? We have a sacred duty - to look after our body.
Good luck. Fare thee well.

[dwaynejoyce]

Im diabetic, I eat a lower carbohydrate diet with fish, lean meats including pork, chicken, beef and lamb. I also eat a range of colourful vegetables, raw mixed nuts and berries. All unprocessed whole foods. Im pushing 60 never been healthier not withstanding my diabetes. I also exercise 5-6 days per week. Balance is key im my humble opinion. Stay healthy and safe everyone. 👍

[lawrencestovall]

I see a lot of talk about the blue zone in different countries yet, all of the countries mentioned have a very low birth rate. Japan, Spain, Italy and most of Europe have a very low birth rate. Eating plants without children is a loss cause. So bragging about people living pass 100 in those countries will not matter if all they have is seniors in the next 100 years. I hear a lot of talk about save the planet when in fact saving humans should be of some concern. Most of Europe is below replacement birth rate of 2.1 child per woman. So how in the world will anyone save humans first. At the rate things are going the planet will survive. I am not so sure about us. Birth rates are falling fast in in Europe, South Korea, China, the US, Eastern Europe and beyond. That's the big issure in my opinion.

[benguay]

In her book, "The Big Fat Surprise, " Nina Teicholz, reveals how Native Americans mostly ate buffalo and lived to a healthy old stated in her text, "Native Americans of the Southwest between 1898 and 1905: Meanwhile, the Native Americans of the Southwest were observed between 1898 and 1905 by the Aleš Hrdlička, who wrote up his observations in a 460-page report for the Smithsonian Institute. The elders among the Native Americans he visited would likely have been raised on a diet of predominantly meat, mainly from buffalo until losing their traditional way of life, yet, as Hrdlička observed, they seemed to be spectacularly healthy and lived to a ripe old age. The incidence of centenarians among these Native Americans was, according to the 1900 US Census, 224 per million men and 254 per million women, compared to only 3 and 6 per million among men and women in the white population. Although Hrdlička noted that these numbers were probably not wholly accurate, he wrote that “no error could account for the extreme disproportion of centenarians observed.” Among the elderly he met of age ninety and up, “not one of these was either much demented or helpless.”...p 14, 15...
Hrdlička was further struck by the complete absence of chronic disease among the entire Indian population he saw. “Malignant diseases, ” he wrote, “if they exist at all—that they do would be difficult to doubt—must be extremely rare.” He was told of “tumors” and saw several cases of the fibroid variety, but never came across a clear case of any other kind of tumor, nor any cancer. Hrdlička wrote that he saw only three cases of heart disease among more than two thousand Native Americans examined, and “not one pronounced instance” of atherosclerosis (buildup of plaque in the arteries). Varicose veins were rare. Nor did he observe cases of appendicitis, peritonitis, ulcer of the stomach, nor any “grave disease” of the liver. Although we cannot assume that meat eating was responsible for their good health and long life, it would be logical to conclude that a dependence on meat in no way impaired good health.... p, 15