Simply Woman & Home

Eat to LIVE LONGER

Taking a trip abroad this summer? Depending on where you’re headed, you could bring back more than a sunkissed tan, souvenir snaps and happy memories. Incorporate some of the local eating habits into your diet and you could add years to your life – and super-healthy ones at that, especially if you’re off to the Med.

The Blue Zones are five global destinations that have been identified by writer Dan Buettner as having an unusual number of people living much longer than average – often past 100. And these residents enjoy supercharged wellbeing well into older age, too.

The actual locations themselves are, arguably, less important than what they can tell us about a healthy lifestyle – in a nutshell, that it

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