Top 52 Buettner Quotes
#2. Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
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#3. Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.
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#4. The happiest people in America socialize about seven hours a day,
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#5. The more things for which you develop a fondness the richer the life you live.
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#6. That's why the Blue Zones Project was so valuable. It shifted the focus to the environment, to making it easier to obtain healthy foods and to stay active.
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#7. Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is
how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?
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#8. I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.
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#9. Many age-related diseases are caused by an immune system out of balance. Excessive or unnecessary inflammation accelerates heart disease, bone loss,
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#10. Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile - Kamada Nakasato, 102-y/o-female fr. Okinawa
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#11. Drink without getting drunk
Love without suffering jealousy
Eat without overindulging
Never argue
And once in a while, with great discretion, misbehave
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#12. Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
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#13. A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.
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#14. Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren't what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years.
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#15. You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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#16. The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.
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#17. I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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#18. If you're eating vegetables you are probably pushing unhealthier food out of your diet.
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#19. I found that when you are depressed, that's when you do something for somebody else.
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#20. Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it?
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#21. The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.
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#22. One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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#24. The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
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#25. Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
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#26. People usually lived or died of dumb luck. Not because something mystical cares.
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#27. Genuinely happy people do not just sit around being content. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings.
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#28. Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.
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#29. The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
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#30. Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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#31. People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.
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#32. It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.
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#33. The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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#34. Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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#35. The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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#36. Recent studies found bitter melon an "effective anti-diabetic" as powerful as pharmaceuticals in helping to regulate blood sugar.
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#37. None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family and friends.
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#38. Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.
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#39. Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.
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#40. Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
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#41. As much as her patients might have wanted to adopt a healthier lifestyle, in other words, everything all around them was pushing them in another direction, down the wrong road.
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#42. The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
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#43. Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.
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#44. A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.
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#45. The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.
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#46. You have to know why you get up every morning.
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#47. One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it 'lying.
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#48. I have always followed exactly what interests me and never really worried about the money. And when you think about it, to be able to travel the world ... on an expense account and do exactly what interests you, it just doesn't get much better than that.
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#49. the author of Why We Age: What Science Is Discovering About the Body's Journey Through Life.
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#50. Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather ... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
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#51. Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.
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#52. I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.
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