Your best chance of making it past 100 years may be by following a Blue Zone-style diet.
If you want to start eating like they do in the Blue Zones, do this: Eat roughly one cup ofevery day. That's one habit common to all five Blue Zone regions. Beans and legumes are foundational ingredients in Blue Zone residents' meal planning so bean up with chickpeas, red beans, lentils, peas, bean sprouts, edamame, and pintos. All make theGrab a handful of nuts.. That's what Blue Zone people do. Those from Ikaria and Sardinia snack on almonds.
Nuts are high in fat, but their fats are the mono- and polyunsaturated varieties that lower LDL , the so-called"bad" cholesterol levels. Ausing data from the Nurses' Health Study found that substituting an ounce of nuts for the equivalent calories in carbohydrates was associated with a 30% reduction in coronary heart disease and switching nut fat for saturated fat was associated with a 45% reduction in risk.