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Feed Your Head

2010

What causes mental illness? Are we, indeed, what we eat? Psychiatrists Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond met in Saskatchewan in 1951, and embarked on a quest to find what psychiatry said didn't exist: a cure for schizophrenia. Hoffer and Osmond set out to prove that the symptoms of schizophrenia could be controlled with healthy, unprocessed food and large doses of vitamins. 60 years later, it looks like they may have been right.

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Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

Nutritional science, long stuck in a reductionist mindset, is at the cusp of a revolution. The traditional “gold standard" of nutrition research has been to study one chemical at a time in an attempt to determine its particular impact on the human body.

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Adding This One Simple Food to Your Diet May Help You Live to 100, According to the World’s Longest-living People

A few years ago, I traveled to Okinawa in Japan, Nicoya in Costa Rica, Ikaria in Greece, Loma Linda in California and Sardinia in Italy — all “Blue Zones,” or homes to the longest-lived people — to find out what centenarians ate to live to 100.

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This Japanese 80% Diet Rule Can Help You Live a Longer Life, Says Longevity Researcher

If you want to live to a healthy 100, eat like healthy people who’ve lived to 100. One place to look is Okinawa, Japan, one of the world’s Blue Zones — or exceptional hot spots where people live extraordinarily long, healthy and happy lives.

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'Ensure That Your Diet Is 90% to 100% Plant-based': 9 Food Rules from the World's Longest-living People

More than 15 years ago, I set out to reverse-engineer a formula for longevity. Working with renowned doctors and nutritionists, I identified several Blue Zones: Places around the world where people live the longest.

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The Key to Living Longer? It's All About What You Eat

Dan Buettner, author of "The “Blue Zones Solution,” and CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook join CBSN to talk about the connection between diet and living well beyond the average lifespan.

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What The Longest Living People Eat Every Day - Blue Zone Kitchen Author Dan Buettner

The foods that people living to 100+ — in Sardinia, Italy; Okinawa, Japan; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece and Loma Linda, CA. (aka Blue Zones) — eat.

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These People Tried The Blue Zones Diet For 3 Months: See What Happened - TODAY

TODAY teamed with Dan Buettner to write down recipes from five areas of the world where people are unusually long-lived. When people in one American city went on a Blue Zones diet for three months, the results were dramatic. TODAY special anchor Maria Shriver reports.

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The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World’s Healthiest People

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...

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Diet and Nutrition