Nobody was connecting loneliness to longevity. When I first started writing about this, I did a cover story for National Geographic in 2005. And we found that 90 to 95 percent they're eating a whole food plant based diet, meat only about five times per month and contrary to a lot of sort of keto slash Paleo diet advice, it's mostly carbohydrates, complex carbohydrates, which I think shocks a lot of people. And we average them with the help of Harvard.
So to get at that, we found 155 dietary surveys done in all five Blue Zones over the last 80 years. Yes, if you want to know what 100-year-old ate to live to be 100, you have to know what she was eating as a child and middle aged and newly retired.
