Blaze Radio Network and now chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.

So today we're talking to Dan butiner and Dan is a man who has traveled the world fascinating

travels around the world and he has well he's kind of discovered you know the fountain

of youth just a little.

And he has a new challenge that he's put into book form and internet form and app form

called the blue zone challenges.

But first I kind of wanted to take a step back a little bit now you've got many cities

around the world or for sure in this country anyway that have adopted many of your blue

zone plans, isn't that right?

Yeah it's called the blue zone project and there's a 54 of them to date and just in

terms of context you know we did this under the ages of national geographic and it wasn't

just me traveling.

We started first working with demographers parsing through worldwide census data to identify

the areas we know are confirmed where people are living the longest and then once we found

that we distilled what exactly they do and we discovered that people who are making it

200 don't have better discipline or self control than the rest of us.

They live in environments where the healthy choice is the easy choice and my business for

the past 12 years has been helping city change their policies and the way their buildings

are designed so that eating healthy mostly plant based and less junk food is easier than

eating you know burgers chips and fries that it's easier to walk places than to drive that

people are connecting naturally and this book the blue zone challenge which just came out

this week now takes that learning and shows individuals how to set up their lives so the

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