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Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren't what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years.

~Dan Buettner

Topics: Achieving Add Community Diet Exercise Four Having Longevity Programs Supplements Years

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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

~Dan Buettner

Topics: Environments Exercise Failure Garden Grow Health Live More Movement Own People Perspective Power Public Public Health Them Tools Use Work World Yard

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The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

~Dan Buettner

Topics: Celebration Diet Eat Meat Nothing Only People Plastic

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The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

~Dan Buettner

Topics: About Aging Brake Brutal Discover Exists Only Pedal People Reality Whether

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Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

~Dan Buettner

Topics: Bike Broom Buy Ditch Door Garage Inconvenience Remote Shovel Snow Yourself

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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

~Dan Buettner

Topics: Beautiful Chair Easy Feeling Garden Get Good Good Feeling Hand Other Rarely Satisfaction Sitting Tomatoes Work Yields You

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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

~Dan Buettner

Topics: Additional Easy Exactly Exactly What Know Life Lot Love Meaning Meaning Of Meaning Of Life Money Right Say Stuff Values Worth Would Years I Love

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The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

~Dan Buettner

Topics: Diet Environment Even Exercise Inconvenient Less Live Lives Longevity Mean More Person Physical Secret See Social Which I See

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Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.

~Dan Buettner

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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.

~Dan Buettner

Topics: Grandparents Healthier Home Kids

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Explorer

Born: Unknown

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