Dan Buettner On The Lost American Diet

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. is one of the most prosperous nations on the planet—and yet, our country has never been more unhealthy. Here to offer us a fact-based prescription for living longer and better is the intrepid Dan Buettner. A true renaissance man, Dan is an investigative journalist, a National Geographic Fellow, a legit, boots-on-the-ground longevity expert, an in-demand public speaker, a serial entrepreneur, and a world explorer with three endurance cycling world records to his name. A New York Times bestselling author many times over, he’s a seemingly constant presence on the TODAY show, has appeared on Oprah twice, and has been profiled on every respected global media outlet, from CNN to David Letterman. Today marks Dan’s fourth appearance on the podcast, and he’s presenting a gorgeous new offering: The Blue Zones American Kitchen. A must-read primer on healthy living, it’s a cookbook meets road trip in which he excavates the history of American cuisine and food culture and unearths the original, indigenous American diet, which, let’s just say, is very Blue Zones. It is with great pleasure that I share Dan’s wisdom with you today. Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: Seed: seed.com/RICHROLL Native: nativedeo.com/rrp Squarespace: Squarespace.com/RichRoll Outerknown: outerknown.com BetterHelp: BetterHelp.com/richroll Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:42.4	Okay, let's do the show.
0:47.8	I read about three years ago a statistic that about 750,000 Americans will die prematurely
0:56.3	this year because of eating the standard American diet.
1:00.9	I don't believe we're going to get anywhere by inciting people or educating people or
1:07.2	raking our fingers at them and saying, you're a bad person because you don't have the
1:12.4	responsibility to eat healthy food.
1:14.2	And forget that, we are set up for failure in this country when we go out into the food
1:20.2	environment in 97 out of 100 choices, our bad choices.
1:24.3	It's not going to change until we, first of all, make some of those choices healthier
1:29.6	so that they can be unconscious and easier and secondly, provide people an opportunity
1:34.5	to taste wonderful whole food plant-based and give them the skills to cook it.
1:39.2	The food pattern that mimics the diets of longevity quite honestly happened among cultures
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