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| Dan Buettner |
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Explorer, Educator, Founder of Blue Zones™
Dan Buettner is The New York Times best-selling author of The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest. An internationally recognized explorer, he is founder of Blue Zones – a project that researches the world's best practices in health, happiness, and longevity and shares that information to help people live longer, better. Buettner's newest book,Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way, focuses on happiness in the "blue zones," and how everyone can attain a better quality of life by following the happiest countries' examples.
The article Buettner wrote for National Geographic Magazine in November 2005, "Secrets of Living Longer," was the third-highest selling issue in the magazine's history and made Buettner a National Magazine Award finalist.
Buettner has appeared as a longevity expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, The Today Show, ABC World News, CBS's The Early Show, and CNN. He is also a member of Cooking Light magazine's Advisory Board.
Buettner also holds three Guinness World Records for cycling six continents. In February 1995, he and a team including Mayanist Julie Acuff, photographer Douglas Mason, and his two brothers, Steve and Nick, embarked on a three-month, 3,244-mile mountain bicycling expedition known as MayaQuest. They travelled through Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras to gain insights into the causes of the collapse of the Mayan civilization around 900 AD. Carrying laptop computers and a mini-satellite dish on loan from Rockwell, these adventurers were able to link up with 40,000 schools involved in the project via Prodigy, as well as other Internet users. The team logged on twice a week, uploaded their findings, fielded questions from students and teachers, and received input from more than one million online participants.
The last of these trips also became the subject of an Emmy-winning PBS documentary co-produced by Buettner and a book he authored, Afratrek: A Journey by Bicycle through Africa, which won the Young Reader Award of Scientific American.
Areas of Expertise: Aging, Health/Fitness/Wellness, Life Balance, Stress Management, Peak Performance
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| The Making of A Healthy City - In 2009, Albert Lea, Minnesota, a statistically average American city, completed a one year community health experiment that raised life expectancy by three years, trimmed a collective 12,000 pounds off waistlines and dropped healthcare costs of city workers by some 40%. USA Today, Good Morning America, AARP, ABC Nightline, CNN and U.S. News and World Report all covered the story. Harvard's Dr. Walter Willett, writing in Newsweek magazine called the results “stunning”. Dan Buettner, founder and director of the AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project created a “perfect storm” of health that transformed a city. He tells the fascinating story of how one typically obese American city of 18,000 reversed the trend and also got happier. Workplaces were an integral part of building enthusiasm and support. Dan's presentation takes audiences on the year long journey as this town adopts 28 evidence based ways to change their environment to live longer and better. They got healthier without thinking about it. |
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| Blue Zones: Secrets of a Long Life - World renowned explorer and National Geographic writer, Dan Buettner, and his team of researchers have traveled across the globe to discover Blue Zones -- hotspots of human health and vitality.
Along the way he's met people teeming with vigor at age 100 and beyond. Working with the National Institute on Aging, he identified five small populations with the world's highest life expectancy. Then, working with second team of scientists, he isolated the common denominators that explain extraordinary longevity. What is the optimal diet for making it to a healthy age 90? Should you be running marathons or doing yoga? What supplements work? Does stress really shorten your life? Dan debunks the most common myths and offers a science-backed blue print for the average American to live another 12 quality years.
His presentation incorporates National Geographic images that will take audiences into the world’s five Blue Zones, tell stories and instruct how to get more life from your years and more years from your life. The presentation ends with a simple formula that shares how you could add quantity and quality to your life.
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| Unlocking the Secrets of Happiness - Science shows that where we live--not education, marital status or wealth-- is the biggest, controllable factor that determines our happiness. So where should we live? a tropical island? Paris? Las Vegas? It's not where you think.
Working with Gallup, The World Values Survey and the World Data Base on Happiness, Dan and his team found the three pockets around the world where people report the highest level of well-being--or happiness. Then, on assignment for National Geographic, he researched each of these hotspots and distilled down the common denominators in each place. What can governments do to maximize the well-being of their citizens? And more importantly, what can we do as individuals to stack the deck in our favor to maximize happiness?
His presentation incorporates National Geographic photographs and short video clips. It transports audiences to places around the globe where people are living 0happy and meaningful lives. It offers universal strategies on how to best achieve that life balance we all seek.
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| Dan spoke at one of our conferences recently and he was nothing short of excellent. In today's world of hustle and bustle, fast-food, and very little time for self reflection, Dan had the audience thinking about life, longevity and personal health. What was so unique is that everyone was captivated about a topic that we hear quite regularly. Dan's message is unique, practical and fact based. As such, he had the whole room's attention! We look forward to having Dan back real soon! Steven G. Rice, Ameriprise Financial |
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| Dan did such a stellar job at our conference ... we have no idea how we'll fill his shoes the next time we put on this event. We received fabulous feedback on his presentation. Valerie Schoepf, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota |
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| Dan did such a stellar job at our conference. We have no idea how we'll fill his shoes the next time we put on this event." V. Schoepf, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota |
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| "Dan's presentation was one of the best we have had and the doctors continued talking about Blue Zones through the entire rest of the meeting.” J. Musher, MD, CMD, American Medical Directors Association |
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