To live longer, live like you're in a 'Blue Zone'

WRVO | By Take Care Staff

Published July 17, 2015 at 6:37 AM EDT

The island of Ikaria, Greece. People on this tiny Aegean island live eight years longer than Americans do. They experience 20 percent less cancer, half the rate of heart disease and almost no dementia.

It seems everyone is looking for a secret to living a long, healthy life. But Dan Buettner, a National Geographic explorer and author has traveled the world to find it.

This week on WRVO's health and wellness program "Take Care," hosts Lorraine Rapp and Linda Lowen speak to Buettner about why a higher percentage of people in what he calls "Blue Zones" live to be 100 years old without preventable diseases.

Support for this story comes from The Health Foundation for Western and Central New York.

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