“The Blue Zones American Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100.” “I tried to be very precise, looking at the data, to find exactly what people in the blue zones ate,” Buettner said.

(Madeline Gray for The Washington Post) Analysis by Philip Bump Rural America is dying ... jumps in the number of people in less-populated rural areas. That holds for blue and red counties ...

People in blue-state America live longer than their red-state counterparts. They are less likely to live in poverty, more likely to have access to health care, less likely to die from gun violence ...

It may be time to stop talking about “red” and “blue” America. That’s the provocative ... a marbled mix of Red and Blue people,” Podhorzer writes. “But in truth, we have never ...

"The essence of Blue Zones is people live a long time not because ... "They don't pursue health, which is a big disconnect in America, because we think health is something that needs to be pursued." ...