Blue Zone Diet Debunked: Milk, Cheese, Meat & Fish Are Staple Foods

The media claims blue zone diet is primarily plant based, facts say otherwise. Here's a review of the evidence.

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0:00 Intro
0:20 Blue Zone diets are rich in animal products.
2:00 Exercise, movement, and community contribute to longevity and health.
2:20 Ancient plant products are different from what you can buy today.
4:00 Some of the unhealthiest foods today are plant-based.
5:35 There are valuable nutrients in animal-based foods.

[Val-x]

Hiii, Sardinian lady here. You are absolutely right our diet has plenty of meat, cheese & fish. In actual fact compare to the rest of Italy we eat very small ammount of carbs.

[BaresarkSlayne]

Bill Schindler talked about this in one of his talks. He went to Sardinia and found that they basically eat an animal based diet. They have some fruits and vegetables, but they eat mostly animal based. He explained that in the blue zone reporting, they said stated that they only eat meat one day a week. But the truth of it is, they eat it every day with every meal, but mostly they simply prepare their meat for a whole week, one day out of that week. Of course, Sardinia is hours away from major cities, it has an older population, with a sense of community. They do so many things that are the opposite of what American life is. At very least it shows that an animal based diet is not harmful.

[tubetime]

In Blue zone documentary I saw no processed foods with added crap. I saw no soda pop or sugary drinks. I didn't see candy bars, chips, or ice cream bars. I didn't see processed milk. I didn't see processed ( with chemicals ) tobacco. I didn't see much of any automotive transportation. I didn't see them watching MSNBC CNN CBS or trashy tv shows/sitcoms. I didn't see any polution. And I didn't see any of that stressful junk mail, or social media. 🤔

[LifeandLiesSyra]

I'm Sardinian with lots of family history. Sardinia staple food is pork, goat, sheep(everything including intestines offal and trotters) and all ovine dairy. We now have bovine dairy but it was less common. Vegetable are exclusively seasonal and local just as fruit and berries. Animal products are the staple.

[zbridgjpxupzm]

it's not just diet. it's about pollution, modern stress, and community ties

[Docinaplane]

My father died at 97, mentally sharp to the last day. I don't need to watch a documentary on how to live long, I watched one my whole life. He ate healthy omnivore.

[R]

Before the 1950's, Dr. Weston A Price, a dentist who personally travelled to different areas of the world that still thrived on many of their traditional foods, observed that the culture that had the shortest lifespan and the shortest stature were vegetarians in India.

[jackbuaer]

The Blue Zone data popularized by Dan Buettner is based only a small subset of Blue Zone populations. The primary data was based on a survey of certain Blue Zone centenarians and not the Blue Zone population at large.

[bryceherring]

Plant based diet in Greece or Italy? Def not, that's peasant food, and would lead to a very short, weak life, meat eggs and fish and the fats and oils is what actually defines many of these longevity regions but sadly the fake media tried to convince us that they sat around eating leafy greens and abstaining from meat, and that couldn't be farthest from the truth! Great work Mike, cheers!!!

[lizecke]

My take away from the both the Blue Zone book & documentary was having purpose & movement, then eating fresh food. No one was in a recliner with a remote control and microwaving their UPF or taking multiple pharma pills.

[LigmusCrotum]

There was always something odd about blue zone marketing to me. We are talking about pockets of small populations in somewhat rural areas. Yes, they tend to have low levels of stress, high exposure to nature, lots of low intensity cardio, and high levels of community, and whatever traditional diet things. However, what about the genetic factor? These are small relatively isolated populations. The genetics are never talked about. Everyone marketing their next "blue zone product" acts like it is entirely about what foods the blue zone people are eating. Maybe they talk about the lifestyle. Genetics are never mentioned though.

[EVworldnews]

If you read Dr Weston Price, his writings from the 30s and 40s talk about how crazy healthy indigenous people were eating dairy and meat and avoiding modern foods. Here is a summary of your video

Blue zones, areas with a high percentage of centenarians, are often associated with a plant-based diet for longevity.
A paper titled "Sardinian Dietary Analysis for Longevity" challenges this notion by revealing that individuals in Sardinia, a blue zone, consume a diet rich in animal products.
Ancient Sardinian foods include roasted lamb intestine, horse steak, pigeon, sea urchin, and row, challenging the idea of a plant-centric diet.
People in Sardinia rely heavily on dairy products, particularly goat and sheep milk, contrary to the plant-based narrative often associated with blue zones.
The speaker emphasizes the importance of considering factors beyond diet, such as exercise, movement, and community, in understanding exceptional longevity.

[significantlystrangeboi]

None of these people actually get what we would consider “exercise.” it’s called natural movement, it’s like exercise, but without even trying or thinking about it. It requires an environment that requires you to move in order for it to function. So basically, in Sardinia, there are no cars because of how steep the countryside mountains are, so everyone walks everywhere, not for exercise, but simply because it’s convenient. In Okinawa, everyone sits on the floor, and gets up and down almost 20 times a day. That’s like doing 20 squats a day, without even thinking about it. It’s also cheaper to not have furniture. Also, most of these people grow their own food.

[aaronash]

they had all those sheep being pastoralists but apparently didnt eat lamb! Lol just google how many sheep are in sardinia...more sheep than people!

[steve]

Which place has the longest lifespan? Hong Kong. Which population eat the most meat on the Planet? Hong Kong.

[Romns]

I wish these researchers would stop flat-out lying about people’s diets around the world. It’s shameful

[tinknal]

Also notable are places left out of the "blue zones". The people of Iceland and the Faroe Islands eat a diet heavy in red meat, dairy, and seafood (including whale) and enjoy great health and longevity despite living in a harsh seafaring environment.

[curtismatsune]

The blue zone diets have nearly nothing in common with each other but what the blue zones do have in common is (1) the elderly staying very active both physically and mentally, and (2) very tight-knit communities where elderly care is done on a communal basis resulting in much more consistency and higher quality in elderly care.

In a game of percentages, which is what demographics is, one can easily see how things like that would be significant factors in longevity across an entire community and move the average age substantially upwards.

[Ol_Maude]

I’ve always said this. “Mediteranean diets” are mostly plant based? Have these people ever been to mediteranean countries?

[Mario-forall]

LOL, I was watching a documentary about the Costa Rican Blue Zone, Nicoya. The documentarist kept mentioning the plant based diet but when they asked the 100yo lady what was her secret to long life she said: "Eat a lot of cheese" 😂😂😂