Longevity in the year 2017 The argument created by Dan Buettner in his TED Talk for “How to live to be 100+,” is that longevity is possible for anyone who has good genetics and a healthy life style. More specifically, Dan Buettner (2009) argues that ten percent of longevity forms from genetics and the other ninety percent is effected by our life styles. He collects this information from teaming up with National Geographic, and the National Institution on Aging in which they travel the worlds blue zones that include: the island of Sardinia in Italy, Okinawa in Japan and Loma Linda in California. They discover each zone has more than one person who has lived passed the age of one hundred; Acknowledging that each zone is different Buettner, with
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Buettner believes a plant based diet is need for longevity because plants do not contain harsh supplements that harm the human body. People who rely less on technology such as cars assist themselves in the pursuit for longevity by keeping the body active. An addition to having a positive social life sums up Buentter’s longevity formula because it helps the spiritual and mental state for a person in search for longevity. Although America can adapt to this plant based diet, positive social life, and less usage of technology the diversity rapid growth and advancement of technology prevents America from being able to obtain longevity.
Embodying the plant based diet, Buettner (2009) states in the second blue zone Okinawa, they usually have a diet which is full of vegetables …show more content…
Captivating this positive social life, the word “Moai” is used by Buettner to describe the friendship of the Okinawan people; “Moai” as Buettner believes “is a half of dozen friends whom a person should carry with them in a lifetime.” On the other hand, Buetter states that “America fifth teen years ago, had an average of three good friends for a lifetime which decreased to one and a half” in modern day. Buettner’s theory of the decline in good friends for America is extremely useful because it sheds insight on how difficult it is for America to adjust to a positive social life. Poverty is the main reason for the decade of positive social life because it usual associates with negative areas, high crime rates as well as death rates. Unemployed man or female, single parents, and elderly people tend to be affiliated in poverty while some are placed in poverty not by choice but by nature or freak accidents that happen to people at random. For example, the nature disaster called Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Spriggs (2006) stated “that poverty increased dramatically due to the disaster back in 2004” (p.14). Television’s displayed the many people’s faces because of the impact in poverty that hit New Orleans; Thus, the affect did not only hurt the society, many people’s social life had been torn from them in multiple
Buettner believes a plant based diet is need for longevity because plants do not contain harsh supplements that harm the human body. People who rely less on technology such as cars assist themselves in the pursuit for longevity by keeping the body active. An addition to having a positive social life sums up Buentter’s longevity formula because it helps the spiritual and mental state for a person in search for longevity. Although America can adapt to this plant based diet, positive social life, and less usage of technology the diversity rapid growth and advancement of technology prevents America from being able to obtain longevity.
Embodying the plant based diet, Buettner (2009) states in the second blue zone Okinawa, they usually have a diet which is full of vegetables …show more content…
Captivating this positive social life, the word “Moai” is used by Buettner to describe the friendship of the Okinawan people; “Moai” as Buettner believes “is a half of dozen friends whom a person should carry with them in a lifetime.” On the other hand, Buetter states that “America fifth teen years ago, had an average of three good friends for a lifetime which decreased to one and a half” in modern day. Buettner’s theory of the decline in good friends for America is extremely useful because it sheds insight on how difficult it is for America to adjust to a positive social life. Poverty is the main reason for the decade of positive social life because it usual associates with negative areas, high crime rates as well as death rates. Unemployed man or female, single parents, and elderly people tend to be affiliated in poverty while some are placed in poverty not by choice but by nature or freak accidents that happen to people at random. For example, the nature disaster called Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Spriggs (2006) stated “that poverty increased dramatically due to the disaster back in 2004” (p.14). Television’s displayed the many people’s faces because of the impact in poverty that hit New Orleans; Thus, the affect did not only hurt the society, many people’s social life had been torn from them in multiple