Dan Buettner reveals how to transform your health through smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities he&&&39;s identified as "Blue Zones"--those places daround the world with the world&&&39;s longest-lived, healthiest, people.

With the audacious belief that the lifestyles of the world&&&39;s Blue Zones could be adapted and replicated in towns across North America, Buettner launched the largest preventive healthcare project in the United States--The Blue Zones City Makeovers. In these pages, readers can be inspired by the specific stories of the people, foods, and routines of our healthy elders; understand the role community, family, and naturally healthy habits can play to improve our diet and health; and learn the exact foods--including the 50 superfoods of longevity and dozens of recipes adapted for Western tastes and markets--that offer delicious ways to eat your way to optimum health.