Английская Википедия:Dan Buettner

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Multiple issues Шаблон:Infobox person Dan Buettner (born June 18, 1960)Шаблон:Citation needed lead is an American National Geographic Fellow and New York Times-bestselling author. He is an explorer, educator, author, producer, storyteller and public speaker.Шаблон:Citation needed lead He co-produced an Emmy Award-winning documentaryШаблон:Citation needed lead and holds three Guinness records for endurance cycling.Шаблон:Citation needed lead Buettner is the founder of Blue Zones, LLC.

Biography

Early life

Dan Buettner was born on June 18, 1960, in Saint Paul, Minnesota.Шаблон:Fact After graduating from the University of St. Thomas in 1983, Buettner took a year to explore Spain before taking a job with National Public Radio in Washington, D.C., to recruit celebrity participation in a fund-raising croquet tournament with journalist George Plimpton.Шаблон:Fact

Education

Buettner graduated from the University of St. Thomas in 1983. Soon thereafter he went to work for The Washington Post columnist Remar Sutton and Paris Review Editor George Plimpton to organize the National Public Radio's Celebrity Croquet Tournament.

Early expeditions

In 1986, Dan Buettner launched the first of several Guinness World Records for transcontinental cycling. "Americastrek" traversed Шаблон:Convert, from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina; the 1990 "Sovietrek", where Dan was joined by his brother Steve, followed the 45th parallel around the world and covered Шаблон:Convert, as Buettner recounted the trip in his book Sovietrek.Шаблон:Full In 1992, in "Africatrek", the Buettner brothers team-cycled from Bizerte, Tunisia, to Cape Agulhas, South Africa, with cyclist Dr. Chip Thomas, covering Шаблон:Convert over eight months.Шаблон:Fact

MayaQuest

Шаблон:BLP unsourced section In February 1995, Buettner developed a genre of exploration that enabled online audiences to direct teams of experts to solve mysteries. His MayaQuest [USA Today CITATION] expedition sought to help solve the mystery of the 9th century Maya Collapse. Carrying laptop computers and a newly demilitarized satellite dish, the expedition interacted with classrooms that helped determine exploration route and findings. Hamline University's Center for Global Environmental Education created a framework for schools to use the expedition as multi-disciplinary teaching themes. Both Africatrek and MayaQuest were adapted into educational computer games by MECC in the late 1990s.

Businesses

Шаблон:BLP refimprove In 1995, Buettner founded Earthtreks, Inc. to manage his expeditions.Шаблон:Fact He sold the company to Classroom Connect in 1997 but continued to lead expeditions until 2002.Шаблон:Fact His team retraced Darwin's route in the Galapagos and followed Marco Polo's trail on the Silk Road, explored the collapse of the Anasazi Civilization and traced the origins of Western Civilization.Шаблон:Fact

When Buettner realized that adults were also following his expeditions, he approached National Geographic with the idea to research longevity hotspots and was given support to move forward.Шаблон:Fact He then met with Robert Kane,Шаблон:Fact as of 2016 the Director, Center on Aging, at the University of Minnesota, who introduced him to demographers and scientists at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Washington, D.C.Шаблон:Fact Buettner was awarded a grant from the National Institute of Aging.Шаблон:Fact Previous research identified the longevity hotspots of Sardinia, Okinawa, and Loma Linda.Шаблон:Fact

In 2003, Buettner began leading trips to these destinations while collaborating with a variety of experts, including anthropologists, historians, dietitians, and geneticists. His early trips focused on Sardinia, Italy; Okinawa, Japan; Monterrey, Nuevo Leon; and Loma Linda, California.

Blue Zones

Around the early 2000s (in order to validate the age of centenarians first reported in the AKEA study, see Deiana et al 1999 ), astrophysicist turned demographer Professor Michel Poulain and his team were investigating areas of extreme longevity in Italy. Their work eventually led to the introduction of the concept of Blue Zone by Poulain and colleagues as related to population experiencing exceptionally high longevity. Poulain identified, with Gianni Pes, Luca Deiana and colleagues, the first Blue Zone in Sardinia (with financial support from the US National Institute on Aging, subcontract with Duke University n. 03-SC-NIH-1027, from the MaxPlanck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany, and the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, Italy). This seminal research work caused a stir globally, when first presented at the 2000 IUSSP Montpellier conference as a short paper by Poulain, and even more when it appeared as a full publication in the journal of Experimental Gerontology in 2004 (Poulain et al 2004). Given the importance of the discovery, the Blue Zones concept early on in its development, attracted the attention, and support, of Buettner.

In 2003, Buettner formed Blue Zones LLC.Шаблон:Fact Buettner reported on communities with increased longevity, identified as blue zones, in his cover story for National Geographic Magazine's November 2005 edition, "Secrets of Long Life."

In 2006, under aegis of National Geographic, Buettner collaborated with Michel Poulain and Costa Rican demographer Dr. Luis Rosero-Bixby to identify a fourth longevity hotspot in the Nicoya Peninsula. In 2008, again working with Poulain, he found a fifth longevity hotspot on the Greek Island of Ikaria.Шаблон:Citation needed In April 2008, Buettner released a book on his findings, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest, through National Geographic Books. It resulted in interviews for Buettner on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Dr. Oz Show, and Anderson Cooper 360.Шаблон:Citation needed

In September 2009, Buettner gave a TED talk on the topic, titled "How to live to be 100+", which, as of this date,Шаблон:When has over 4.6 million views.Шаблон:Third party inline In October 2010, he released the book Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way, largely based on research taking a data-based approach to identify the statistically happiest regions of the happiest countries on Earth.Шаблон:Says who He argues that creating lasting happiness is only achievable through optimizing the social and physical environments.

In April 2015, Buettner published The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People, which listed Ikaria (in Greece), Okinawa (Japan), Sardinia (Italy), Loma Linda (California), and Costa Rica as the places with top longevity. It became a New York Times Best Seller. The book was featured on the cover of Parade, and Buettner was interviewed extensively on national media.Шаблон:Fact

In 2019, Buettner and National Geographic photographer David McLain revisited all of the Blue Zones to study diet; based on this, Buettner and Mclain wrote Blue Zones Kitchen.Шаблон:FullШаблон:Fact In 2020, Blue Zones LLC was acquired by Adventist Health.

AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project

In 2008, inspired by Finland's North Karelia Project,Шаблон:Third party inline Buettner designed a plan to apply his Blue Zones principles to an American town.Шаблон:Fact He auditioned five cities and chose Albert Lea, Minnesota, for the AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project, where he believed the key to success involved focusing on the ecology of health—creating a healthy environment rather than relying on individual behaviors.Шаблон:Fact

Walter Willett, chair of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, found the resultsШаблон:What "stunning". As a whole, the community showed an 80% increase in walking and biking; 49% decrease in city worker's healthcare claims, and 4% reduction in smoking.Шаблон:Fact The community shed 12,000 pounds, walked 75 million steps, and added three years to their average life expectancy.Шаблон:Fact City officials reported a 40% drop in health care costs.Шаблон:Fact

Blue Zones Project

In 2010, Buettner partnered with Healthways, a global health and well-being company, to scale the Blue Zones city work under the rubric of Blue Zones Projects.Шаблон:Third party inline The Blue Zones Project team partnered with Beach Cities Health District in Southern California to apply Blue Zone principles to three California communities—Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, and Manhattan Beach. Their work occasioned the lowering of BMI by 14% and smoking by 30%, as well as increasing healthy eating and exercise.

In 2011, the Blue Zones Project joined forces with Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield to deliver the Blue Zones Project across the State of Iowa as the cornerstone of the Governor's Healthiest State Initiative and is at work in 18 cities there to effect change.Шаблон:Citation needed In 2013, projects began in Fort Worth, Texas, and in Hawaii.Шаблон:WhereШаблон:Third party inline

In 2014, work began in Naples, Florida; South Bend, Indiana; and Klamath Falls, Oregon.Шаблон:Third party inline In 2018, Klamath Falls was recognized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) as the "Culture of Health" prize winner

Public speaking

• Bill Clinton's Global Initiative, 2013
• Google Zeitgeist, 2012
• TEDxTC 2009 (Minneapolis/St. Paul), independently organized TED event.

Personal life

Buettner and American model Cheryl Tiegs ended a relationship on January 1, 2009.

Bibliography

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• Buettner, Dan. (February 25, 2002) Scary Canoe Stories. The Rake.
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• Buettner, Dan (May 2015) Want Great Longevity and Health? It Takes a Village. "The secrets of the world's longest-lived people include community, family, exercise and plenty of beans." The Wall Street Journal
• Buettner, Dan, (2017). The blue zones of happiness: lessons from the world's happiest people. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Шаблон:ISBN.
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Further reading

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External links

• Шаблон:Official (BlueZones)
• BlueZones Facebook
• Dan Buettner talks about Sovietrek and his other adventures with anthropologist Jack Weatherford, in Northern Lights Minnesota Author Interview TV Series, #347 (1995): [https://reflections.mndigital.org/catalog/p16022coll38:369#/kaltura_video]