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Blue Zones and Their Role in the Diet-Mental Health Relationship

Blue zones are regions where individuals live much longer and healthier than average. Know the Blue Zones' role in the Diet-Mental Health.<br><br>Blue zones are regions where individuals live much longer and healthier than average. Know the Blue Zones' role in the Diet-Mental Health. Visit- https://www.nutritional-psychology.org/blue-zones-and-their-role-in-the-diet-mental-health-relationship-dmhr-a-two-part-series-exploring-the-interplay-of-diet-longevity-and-mental-health/

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Blue Zones and Their Role in the Diet-Mental Health Relationship

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  1. Blue Zones and Their Role in the Diet-Mental Health Relationship

  2. Editor’s Note: We begin our three-part series with an overview of the nine common characteristics that underlie Blue Zones. The second article will dive deeper into how diet and mental health may impact longevity. In 2016, to explore the secrets to longevity, National Geographic Fellow and American Author Dan Buettner located five geographic locations on Earth yielding higher-than-average populations of people living beyond 100 years old, referred to as “centenarians.” The locations are Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Loma Linda, California; and Nicoya, Costa Rica (Buettner & Skemp, 2016). Buettner coined the term “Blue Zones,” defining them as communities that produce individuals who are ten times more likely to reach age 100 than the average US citizen and prompting questions about what contributes to such extraordinarily healthful aging (Buettner & Skemp, 2016).

  3. With the help of demographers, scientists, and anthropologists, Buettner identified nine common lifestyle characteristics among the Blue Zones that impact longevity: the Power 9 (Buettner & Skemp, 2016). These include: move naturally, purpose, downshift, 80% rule, plant slant, wine at 5, right tribe, loved ones first, and belong (Figure 1). His idea is that if genes dictate about 20% of life expectancy and lifestyle governs about 80%, the Power 9 can provide a blueprint for creating healthier populations and a higher human life expectancy worldwide (Herskind et al., 1996).

  4. Visit- https://www.nutritional-psychology.org/blue-zones-and-their-role-in-the-diet-mental-health- relationship-dmhr-a-two-part-series-exploring-the-interplay-of-diet-longevity-and-mental-health/ for details.

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