Top Stories of 2025: Beans, Weight Loss, Tea, and Grandparents
This round-up of our most-read and most-shared stories and posts of 2025 includes beans, weight loss, tea, eating for longevity, and breaking the cycle of loneliness.
Top Articles
Fasting for Health and Longevity: Nobel Prize Winning Research on Cell Aging
Throughout the history of humankind, fasting has been part of religious, spiritual, and health practices. In the blue zones region of Ikaria, long-living people there observe about 150 days of religious fasting a year. Share on X
Blue Zones Diet: Food Secrets of the World’s Longest-Lived People
Follow these guidelines and you’ll crowd out refined starches and sugar, replace them with more wholesome, nutrient-dense, and fiber-rich foods—and do it all naturally. Share on X
Top 10 Best Blue Zones Breakfast Ideas
There’s an old saying: “Breakfast like a king; lunch like a prince; dinner like a pauper.” Make the first meal of your day your biggest, and only eat three meals a day. Share on X
How Living the Blue Zones Lifestyle Led to One Man’s 130 Lb Weight Loss and Personal Transformation
Schiff’s complete lifestyle shift began as an experiment, a game of sorts, as he set out to see what would happen if he tried two very small and achievable new habits for a short period of just one month. Share on X
5 Delicious Ways to Eat a Cup of Beans Each Day
Adding a cup of beans to your daily diet is one of the cheapest, easiest and tastiest ways to lower cholesterol and blood sugar levels and boost good gut bacteria. Share on X
Moai—This Tradition is Why Okinawan People Live Better, Longer
In small neighborhoods across Okinawa, friends “meet for a common purpose” to gossip, experience life, and to share advice and even financial assistance when needed. They call these groups their moai. Share on X
Green Tea and Walnuts: The Diet, Blood Sugar, and Brain Health Connection
Adopting a green-MED diet could be a practical, low-risk strategy for preserving brain health and reducing dementia risk. Share on X
Breaking the Cycle of Loneliness: 5 Tips to Build Better, Deeper, Stronger Relationships
In the blue zones, where the world’s longest-lived people reside, social connection is built into everyday life—it is simply part of the fabric of their communities. Share on X
Hara Hachi Bu: Enjoy Food and Lose Weight With This Simple Japanese Phrase
If you’ve ever been lucky enough to eat with an Okinawan elder, you’ve invariably heard them intone this Confucian-inspired adage before beginning the meal: hara hachi bu — a reminder to stop eating when their stomachs are 80 percent… Share on X
Six Heirloom Foods That We’ve Stopped Eating, But You Should Add to Your Cart
To live like the longest-lived people in the world, we must eat, move, and connect in ways similar to our great-great-grandparents. Share on X
Top Posts
@bluezones_ MOVE NATURALLY is one of the Blue Zones Power 9 lifestyle habits of the world’s healthiest, longest-lived people. The world’s longest-lived people don’t pump iron, run marathons or join gyms. Instead, they live in environments that constantly nudge them into moving without thinking about it. They grow gardens and don’t have mechanical conveniences for house and yard work. Learn more about the Blue Zones Power 9 at https://www.bluezones.com/2016/11/power-9/ REEL: @annakatsas #bluezones #bluezoneslife #Ikaria #Greece #longevity ♬ original sound – Blue Zones
@bluezones_ LOVED ONES FIRST is one of the Blue Zones Power 9 lifestyle habits of the world’s healthiest, longest-lived people. Centenarians in the blue zones put their families first. This means keeping aging parents and grandparents nearby or in the home (It lowers disease and mortality rates of children in the home too.). They commit to a life partner (which can add up to 3 years of life expectancy) and invest in their children with time and love (They’ll be more likely to care for you when the time comes). Learn more about the Blue Zones Power 9 at https://www.bluezones.com/2016/11/power-9/ #bluezones #bluezoneslife #ikaria Video by @annakatsas ♬ original sound – Blue Zones
@bluezones_While we can’t all live in a blue zones region, we can be inspired by blue zones residents like Anna to live better, longer in our own towns. In our work building healthier, stronger communities, Blue Zones focused on “life radius,” or the area close to home where we spend 90% of our lives. Learn more about the life radius approach to optimizing the living environment at the link in our bio. Tap the 💙 button if this video resonates with you! Video by @annakatsas https://www.bluezones.com/live-longer-better/life-radius/ #bluezones #bluezoneslife #livebetterlonger #aging #longevity #Greece #Ikaria #liferadius♬ original sound – Blue Zones
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