Bestselling author Dan Buettner reveals how to transform your health using smart nutrition, lifestyle, and fitness habits gleaned from longevity research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities he's identified as ""Blue Zones"" those places with the world's longest-lived, and thus healthiest, people, including locations such as Okinawa, Japan, Sardinia, Italy, Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula, Ikaria, Greece, and Loma Linda, California. With the audacious belief that the lifestyles of the world's Blue Zones could be adapted and replicated in towns across North America, Buettner launched the largest preventive health care project in the United States, The Blue Zones City Makeovers, which has impacted the health of millions of Americans since 2009. In The Blue Zones Solution, readers can be inspired by the specific stories of the people, foods, and routines of our healthy elders, understand the role community, family, and naturally healthy habits can play in improving our diet and health, and learn the exact foodsincluding the 50 superfoods of longevity and dozens of recipes adapted for Western tastes and marketsthat offer delicious ways to eat your way to optimum health. Throughout the book are lifestyle recommendations, checklists, and stories to help you create your own personal Blue Zones solution.