Eat Topic Articles

The Blue Zone Food Guidelines

There are places in the world where people are found to live healthier, happier, longer lives. And their diet plays a huge role in that. Distilled from more than 150 dietary surveys, these simple guidelines reflect how the world’s longest-living people have eaten for most of their lives.

Quiz: How Blue Zone is your grocery list?

People in five pockets of the world—known as Blue Zones—live decades longer than the rest of us. Yes, decades! See how closely your food habits match theirs.

3 simple rules for healthier eating.

It isn’t just about what’s on your plate, but how you eat it. Dan Buettner, a best-selling author and National Geographic Fellow, has some healthy eating tips from his research on the Blue Zones.

How understanding your appetite will help you control it

Your appetite is really complex, and triggered or suppressed by many factors. Let’s dive into what exactly controls your appetite and what control you have in either suppressing it, stimulating it, or changing your cravings. The more you learn about how it all works, the more you can make your appetite work for you, and not the other way around.