The blue zone studies and conclusions seem, to me, to be the opposite of “one weird trick” and run in the face of pop diet literature.
At some point, a holistic lifestyle offering statistically higher quality of health outcomes could risk sounding like an agenda, I suppose, but perhaps only if something about that lifestyle makes one feel guilty.
As you go into particular questions, you might find the material around blue zones goes more into those than most. Along with temperance and mostly plants, commonalities included natural exercise and positive disposition, for example.
Or perhaps, is our disdain of the simple holistic findings a result of our convenience culture? Are we actually just unhappy there is not one weird trick, preferably in a tablet form, that wouldn’t inconvenience our own “modern” ways?
Disclosure: My mother’s side had many siblings making it to 100, some were part of the California blue zone, while others lived in Scandinavia, farming and fishing by the sea. The realization these lives are differently healthy is hardly pop: there’s a body of health knowledge behind that tracing back to late 1800s, Kellogg (the family behind the cereal whose home page now says “one of the original plant-based wellbeing companies”), and the like.
At some point, a holistic lifestyle offering statistically higher quality of health outcomes could risk sounding like an agenda, I suppose, but perhaps only if something about that lifestyle makes one feel guilty.
As you go into particular questions, you might find the material around blue zones goes more into those than most. Along with temperance and mostly plants, commonalities included natural exercise and positive disposition, for example.
Or perhaps, is our disdain of the simple holistic findings a result of our convenience culture? Are we actually just unhappy there is not one weird trick, preferably in a tablet form, that wouldn’t inconvenience our own “modern” ways?
Disclosure: My mother’s side had many siblings making it to 100, some were part of the California blue zone, while others lived in Scandinavia, farming and fishing by the sea. The realization these lives are differently healthy is hardly pop: there’s a body of health knowledge behind that tracing back to late 1800s, Kellogg (the family behind the cereal whose home page now says “one of the original plant-based wellbeing companies”), and the like.