TODAY Visits ‘Blue Zone’ Of Costa Rica Where People Live To 100 | TODAY
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2017
- Continuing “Eating to 100 TODAY,” a series about the secrets of a long and healthy life, NBC News special anchor Maria Shriver visits a corner of Costa Rica that is one of the five “blue zones” on Earth with the highest percentage of people living healthy lives to age 100. There she meets a colorful 100-year-old cowboy who starts each day with rice, beans and tortillas.
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TODAY Visits ‘Blue Zone’ Of Costa Rica Where People Live To 100 | TODAY
Its not just food. Peace of mind, more social interactions, more physical activities and less sugar and no chronic stress..
Yes
The opposite of what we are getting in the west.Chronic stres, isolation, insects to eat.
@@bertibear1300 why insects? 😄
Great comment.
Yes it is just fresh fruits and veggies and nuts and seeds.
A traditional Costa Rican breakfast is so much more than just rice and beans. Gallo pinto also has onion, bell pepper, and cilantro, and apart from tortilla, is typically accompanied by eggs, a slice of cheese, and a bowl of fruit. You have all the food groups, if you count the sugar in your coffee and fruits.
I lived a year in Costa Rica in the 90s and I absolutely loved the traditional diet: lots of black beans (Gallo pinto for breakfast and Casado for dinner), tortillas, vegetable stews, eggs, plantains, salads, delicious fresh fruit and Pipa (fresh coconut water).
haha Pura Vida :)
@Simi Gi
Living in CR is a dream of mine. How did you get to stay a year?
@@valerie4912 Well, I did a intercultural exchange year organized by AFS. 🤗
@@simigi252
Thanks! I’ll look that up 😊
I spent a week in CR and ate rice and beans everyday for breakfast along with fresh squeezed fruit juice.
I'm an old man from Malaysia. When I was a child, everyone who survived childhood is expected to live to 100. All that despite bacteria, parasites, poisonous plant and animals, on top of the absence of health service, that we all never have to worry today.
Both my great grandparents lived to 120 when their 4th generation descendant already a youngster.
I remember them clearing rubber plantation with RoundUp. Of course they never know about masks, gloves or a person should always be upwind while spraying herbicide. Rice was about all they ate with something to give it flavor like dried fish. Nobody could afford meat those days except for kings and lords, who incidentally all lived to today's peoples age.
Now....
I'm watching how people retire at 55, then hospitals become their 2nd home 5 yrs later.
That's true. In my dad's province in the Philippines, people lived to their 100s too back in the 1980s. My dad lived to 88.
Wow, do you mind answering a few questions? Did your grand parents smoke? Did they eat any other proteins like insects? How many times a day did they eat? Did they consume any coffee or tea? Did they consume cooking oils?
How is rice and beans an unhealthy breakfast?? Lol 😆
I think it's the KETO thinking of 'carbs' bad
ignorance, american mentality! Where pancakes with a ton of high fructose syrup and artificial strawberry jelly is the norm followed by grilled cheese/battered fried chicken..for lunch and a diet coke!
Believe me, it is not. In Costa Rica, poor families have feed their kids with rice and beans every day. This breakfast is called “ gallo pinto” and we eat it everyday. My mother was a very busy lady and we ate it for dinner sometimes too. In Costa Rica we love it with tortilla, sour cream, eggs, meat…🇨🇷🇨🇷 Viva mi Costa Rica!!!
I know first ofo all look at her, she is not aging well.
American think carbs are the devil...
This 100 years old gentleman is so adorable! He seems very happy and in good health! This is wonderful!
Yes he is amazing!
Bean tortillas and coffee. I dont complain!
My granny died in May 23rd this yr @115yrs was strong she died from an infection she was not on any diet eating ordinary! It's by the love of God that kept her and not food!
I KEEP MY MOM RECIPIES HERE IN kansas City.I still cook whit wood...cook beans and make tortillas by hand...
I AM FROM Nicoya.
A very nice report.lovely...
If I may...you should write down what you know so it's not lost in the passage of time. (I realize that the Blue Zone book is available but 'home made and handed down' family recipes are super important too!) :D
@@deb1120 thank you yes ...I am working on it.still need to lear a lot more...I do remember many things...I can tell you so many Histories and it is so pleasant sit down with my mom and not only cook whit her but listen to all she hace been done and been true. is so amazing.
Thank you and I hope I can make a documentary about her.
Your are more than welcome to visit or subcribe to my channel .
God bless you...
I wish I could learn my grandma’s recipes to be honest but mom doesn’t let me even touch the kitchen
@@mel3381 look in my channel In you tube find me under shirley carazo.hope you like it
Would you open a restaurant?
We are a country for profits, not for “ Health “
My country !!!! I love Costarica so much ❤️
Matt Lauer: "Frisky is right!!!" followed by a nervous chuckle.
💀
have you notice people? no robots, no dishes, NO WASTE just plain leaves for a plate... the best!
Even this breakfast has a lot of carbs, it's way much better than eating a bowl of cereal and milk, with gallo pinto you feel satisfied all the morning.
And carbs are not bad
My Grandma lived in Chicago through The Great Depression, drank a pot of black coffee every day and lived to be 100. She was sharp as a tack until about 98. She worked on her feet - moving and standing daily until age 77 which she said kept her young. If she at a steak she ate the fat as well. ✌️
A lot of the time your health is also moreso influenced by what your grandparents ate
My grandparents from Mexico grew up with a similar lifestyle, they are 100, 93, and 90. My two grandmas have probably not done "cardio" since they were kids, constantly moving is probably more important than intense exercise.
Beans are plant based protein, with great fibre. They mix well with a lot of cuisines. Those tortillas can be eaten with anything, spreading that niacin around all day. Also, there isn't a lot of refined sugar in that cowboy's diet. He's healthy as a horse.
And no GMO
Yes I agree whit you.I am costarican and learn a lot from my family.I am still cooking the same way ..whit wood ....
There is still some refined sugar in his diet, otherwise coul you explain what white rice is?
@@crisch5670depleted of vitamins a minerals soil and pesticides is what you eat when you grow crops in bad conditions like those.
"he doesn't exercice".....Jumps on a horse one minute later........
Get your point but I think they mean in the traditional way of exercising.
@@roxxylala26 yes, going to the gym is much more traditional compared to riding horses. Get your point as well🤣
I live in CR and it's not the food as much as it is the peace and no stress that makes us live better. We are "Tranquilo" and it shows! Pura vida!
Edit: I'd like to say that this man and his generation are likely to be the last that live that long. Today in Costa Rica life is harder and expensive and corrupted politicians run the country. So please forget what I said above... he may be the last 🤷♀️
I wouldn't say no stress tho specially not in the city now guanacaste or anywhere near the coast is a different story
I have to disagree the diet is definitely the biggest factor.
@@seed2594 I mean Costa Rica is rated the number one happiest place on earth. I think peace of mind is a big factor as well as diet. They are living closer to how we are actually meant too. Not bombarded with microwaves, etc..
I also think it's the routine they keep like going to bed and getting up at the same time everyday, also eating at the same time.
There is no territory or time when people have/had no stress. It might seem so but everybody has their own worries. So it must be the diet.
"How can eating ash be good?" Well, have you heard of potassium? It's Pot Ash, and it's necessary for good health and is something most Americans are low in, along with magnesium.
I watch it over and over again. They used woodash to remove corn skin like rice hull. The guy said it release niacin which contradict to some expert if you boil the foods it will reduce the b vitamins right? They remove some toxic too.
So true! I never realized that I was so deficient in certain minerals and vitamins until I recently got tested.
Ash and water make lye... Add fat and you have lye soap.
Pura vida Costa Rica 🇨🇷
The old man is so sweet😄 it's impossible not to smile with him
these ppl have lived their lives unlike ppl in developed countries where everyone is behind a computer and drinking till u pass out at night to drown out the depression.
Right!
Well they do drink a lot in here too but the healthy eating sort of compensates I guess lmao
And fast foods, sugary drinks, processed foods, synthetics, stress and anger issues
"In US this would be view as rather unhealthy breakfast" 😆😆😆 excuse me, miss McBreakfast
How can she said that with a straight face is beyond me
She’s right though-we see rice and tortillas as unhealthy because we’re so afraid of carbs!
@@Becky0494 yep! people have been pushed onto atkins and keto, told carbs are bad and meat is the only thing good for you. Proof is in the blue zones, they don't eat much meat if at all
What a stupid funking comment
Yes, she is so judge mental and knows absolutely nothing about health and what is healthy breakfast.
I eat rice daily but I’m skinny
4 out of 5 of those blue zones are islands, and all have mild climate (no winters). They generally seem like really chill places to live where the pace of life is relatively slow.
Costa Rica is not an island.
There are a lot more so called blue zones in the mediterranean than people know about.
Diet is only one component. They are generally happy people with strong community and family ties. They move a lot. They consume little sugar and virtually no processed food. They have a "pura vida" attitude; mostly stress-free.
Wohoo!!! my beautiful Costa Rica made it to the Todays Show!! #PuraVida
I loved rice and beans( gallo pinto ) i ate that everyday with hot cofffee ,the best tasteting coffee i have ever tried.
Actually, diet is only part of it. The one thing that all of the blue zones (and Vilcabamba, Ecuador - another unlisted blue zone) have in common is their temperature. Typically between 50 F - 85 F throughout most of the year. People go without a/c or heat. So, they are often chilly. Chilly is good. It boosts the vitality of the mitochondria in peoples' cells. Those are the little batteries that keep the cells working well and helping cells to divide consistently. Another factor for longevity is that people in all of those blue zones are active. They work outside. Taking in the vitamin D, intermittent fasting, and they are breathing fresh air. So, yes, diet is important. But, the environmental and occupational/activity aspects I just mentioned play a significant part, too.
Nicoya, Costa Rica is hot most of the year, between 75-95. People don´t do intermittent fasting, at least not on purpose, eating breakfast with family is an important part of Latin American culture. Not being stressed is important. I agree with the rest.
@@eugeniofernandez8101 I was about to say the same thing Eugenio. I don't think the temperature has anything to do with it because then most people who in Alaska would be 100+ and that is not the case. I also don't think they do intermittent fasting.... I don't see any reason to believe they would. I do agree with the staying active and getting vitamin D plus fresh air being important to a long life.
Another thing the blue zones have in common is a faith based community....something you don't find in the U.S. anymore!!!
@@gailandrus7667 well, as said in the video one of the blue zones is actually found in US, in a Californian community full of conservative Adventists whose diet is based on what's written on the Bible.
@Artoria Pendragon and also community support, not necessarily younger but fellow elderlies whom they can socialize without needing to be confined in a elderly nursing home.
Costa Rican’s still eat rice and black beans at every meal. It is deeply ingrained😊 It has not changed in the 20 years I have lived here. Hope it never does!
Cheap and easy bro cheap and easy that will never go
Robbie Felix, they seem to have a great sense of humor as well. That goes a L O N G way, too.
The wood ash in the food IS A HUGE DEAL!!! it REALLY adds so many beneficial things into our food. When we stopped cooking over wood fires and stopped adding wood ash to food was the day we lost a lot of nutrition in our foods.
What kind of wood did you use to make wood ash?...
To make corn tortilla.... do you soak the corn in ash water over night?
or when cooking the corn you add wood ash..... or do you do both.
Get rid of KFC and all fast oods.it's killing us!!!!!!
Especially McDonalds.
@Gabriel Hagy What a shame. People will suffer because these big wigs make billions:-(
They don’t use vegetable oils
They eat everything there
Including red meat and organs
So the blue zones are a fallacy
@@ramikla_146 no we are not a falacy, we do eat meat but of course we don't use that oily things, lot's of sodium and fat, so the food here is really healthy
@@ariananmv
Salt does not cause hypertension
Lots of love from Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, India 🙂🙏💜
How is that breakfast considered in her opinion unhealthy when most eat fast food or bacon and eggs? 😄 rice, beans, corn and plant based eating isn’t unhealthy haha that nervous laugh at the end
Right? What is she talking about? Lol
I grew up on a farm in the Philippines and we grew our food, we ate fresh vegetables, a lot of root crops, all types of beans, fresh fruits and seafood freshly caught from the rivers and the sea, fresh PORK, BEEF, COW, BUFFALO MEAT, FARM RAISED CHICKENS, WE NEVER HAD MONEY BUT WE WERE NATURALLY ABUNDANT AND LONGEVITY through the 90s to 120s WERE THE NORM, we never had REFRIGERATORS,,, for the first 15 YEARS of my LIFE = when my family moved to the USA my PARENTS called the AMERICAN FOOD 'poison' AND WE CONTINUED to eat as OUR FILIPINO ANCESTORS did.
Even i am confused why did she say it was unhealthy?
She thinks sugar frosties r a healthy breakfast.
@@atruenut , Many people from the U.S. believe the following:
Healthy Foods - Fruit, vegetables, lean meat, low fat dairy
Unhealthy Foods - Grains (rice bread, etc.) legumes (beans), red meat, animal fat, whole fat dairy
Costa Rica the best
In Mexico we eat the same way… tortillas, frijoles and huevos every morning…. My abuelo Jesús lived to be 💯
All 5 Blue Zone cities are similar distances from the equator. I wonder how much the weather and environment has an impact on health and longevity?
When Matt says “he’s kind of Frisky”....
Takes one to know one eh
Those tortillas look amazing.
Yes they are delicious and there is more food to see. I AM GLAD I AM KEEPING THIS TRADICION HERE IN USA.
PRETTY SOON I WLL MAKE A VIDEO IN MY YOU TUBE CHANNEL FOR ALL OF YOU.
GOD BLESS EVERY ONE.
They make their own? Would lobe to make them fresh
They are!
Dudo que esta mujer disfrutará o válorala su estadia por esa región. Se le nota.
El shock de la señora por el desayuno con gallo pinto😂😂
I've always advocated for the consumption of that one foodstuff that is almost complete in itself: legumes. Btw, eating light has been shown to extend the life span of all lab animals. And being part of a tight community is a common factor in places where people live long and healthy lives.
🇨🇷Love COSTA RICA🇨🇷Thank you for this great report🌽🌱☕🍚
Secret of long life is forget about death and live enjoy life
Thanks a lot for the video. 😃
Looks like all these regions are located in warm areas of the globe . Is it possible that this has something to do with longevity as well ?
Certainly and worry free, peace of mind lifestyle, easy going and usually in those areas people grow a lot themselves and the stuff on the markets is usually organic, home grown!
I live in a northern climate with short days in winter. I’ve been going to Costa Rica for over 20 years as I have Tico friends. I notice an immediate, positive affect while in Costa Rica. I am outdoors nearly the whole time, swim every day, walk everywhere and eat with the locals. I lose weight, and feel healthier in just a matter of a couple of weeks. I also feel consistently happy - something I also attribute to the influence of the wonderful Central American culture.
@@TheSamuiman Costa Rica is incredibly expensive, we are drowning in taxes and political corruption is growing. As a Costa Rican I want to know about this so called worry free lifestyle, I don't know it.
It's amazing to me how generations of the Kennedy's look alike.
Pura Vida mis Ticos
On top of all this thats one of the nicest areas I’ve ever visited and would live there in a heartbeat
In America this is an unhealthy breakfast…
*In America -“Can I get biscuits, bacon, sausage, pancakes, eggs, covered in gravy and syrup please? Thanks”*
What !? How are rice, beans, and tortillas viewed as "unhealthy"? What the heck ? Maybe she meant to say that, "In America, this would be viewed as an UNUSUAL breakfast."
The more I look into the blue zones the more convinced I am that it is not about “what they do.”
Then we hear “I drink milk, I eat eggs and drink wine and Pepsi, which is important.”
The truth is even these people don’t know.
I am convinced that it has to do with the energy of the zone. Nothing geo-political here but rather “geo-health and longevity.” As they say “move here and you will live longer”. True.
I'd eat that breakfast any day 💜
The food looks delicious!
Rice and bean are considered unhealthy breakfast in america? lol you eat eggs, bacon, pancake and all sort of stuffs eventho some try to eat healthy but it has pesticide, the soil has been spoiled and even the seeds are gmo
A plant based diet is so awesome! Life changing! Going on 4 years, and I will never go back to animal proteins.
Look at all of the videos on them and you will see they eat meat, eggs, and Dairy lol. Good luck with your plant based diet.
It's the quality... that's what matters!
@@writerscorp believe in your SAD diet, when you are clutching for a heart attack or stroke, try to remember what you said today
@Flower8 Try Captain D's tilapia, with the seasoning they use, very good, not expensive, also, you can get excellent tilapia at O'Charley's. Good luck with your meals, go for it.
@Flower8 Sorry for your health problems. I have always regarded the vegan diet as the moron diet. Only a moron would create a diet like that. A couple fed it to their baby and the baby was malnourished. That poor baby:-(
One thing about blue zones is that they eat animal products. Their not vegan or vegetarian. However their flexatarian,or semivegatarian.
Wow. The price of 50 cents per tortilla seems steep for rural Costa Rica. I mean, I’m glad she’s making money, but it’s surprising.
Unfortunately this applies only to this small group of people living in Nicoya. I'm from the central valley, I work for big corporations from USA. I don't feel I'm gonna make it not even to 50 years old. The amount of daily stress and the difficulty making it through the month with a low salary, won't allow me to live too long
Costaricans, in general have a high expectations of life, even higher than the U.S.A.
A simple life is the secret
The tortillas look delicious.
Rice and beans are a complete plant based protein without the extra junk like high cholesterol
They all live in beautiful places near to or on the coast with laid back lifestyles
I hope they create more content like this
Thank you for sharing this wonderful information video 👏👏👏👏👏👏
I feel so proud about this amazing video especial because I come from there. And I still cook the same way...
Life expectancy in America down for the third year in a row! You get plenty of pleasure and instant gratification and unhappiness! I live in CR nobody here is unhappy!
Nice comment bro!!
It is about stress free and no pressure
In barbados every week we have 100 year bold birthdays a woman that goes to my mums church drive her car does all her shopping etc and shes 87 years old. A 92 year young walk in and outof myblibrary reading loads of books he is strong like a 30 year old up straight walks fat and he is fit
Food. Yum.
I miss home so much
That breakfast looks so fire
Dude,this is cool
Inspiring :,)
Please take note that none of these blue zones are found in cities of millions and millions of inhabitants.
And they're not Vegan either!
@@neorich59 mostly vegan
@@user-dt3hk7fu8w no they are not vegan lol
@@user-dt3hk7fu8w I can prove it because I live here in CR, ofc I live in the city, but in the rural people are not vegan
We eat like this. Don’t know why Ms Shriver would say in America this would not be a healthy breakfast...
I do cook the same way here in USA even if is cool out side.
I don't know why she would say in America I mean last time time I checked Costa Rica is America
It's because of the phobia that Americans aspiring to be healthy have towards carbs. They do not realise that carbs when consumed whole are healthier than obsessing over protein and fat.
Black coffee and corn chips. I got this one
PURA VIDA MI GENTE❤❤❤🇨🇷🇨🇷🇨🇷🇨🇷
Niacin also helps skin from wrinkling :)
4:28 well if that aint the pot calling the kettle black lol
How is rice and beans not healthy??????
These guys also do lots of manual work, horse ride, walk and are on low cost real,local food..whatever it is .. its eat local,stay simple, drink a little and take less stress.. exact foods if natural dont matter. .
@Bill T no not all of them ..maybe they eat lil fish, some meats, some cheese in these zones ..
Mi Costa Rica 🇨🇷 ❤❤❤❤🥺🥺🥹🥹
Gallo pinto (rice with beans), with Lizano sauce, add eggs, plantain, sour cream. That is a hardy breakfast. Best places to experiment this kind of food is going to the sodas (mom and pop restaurants).
Hearty. Yes, sodas for Plato typico.
If you sat around on a beach all day and ate the plants around you and got lots of sea water and sun. You would live to 100 too . But you all can’t give up Kentucky fry!
barf
That’s the best breakfast right there.
I wanna learn, I will go if they’ll teach me, to the grandmas cooking🥭
@@sudevinadiyasamanich9081 Then come to my beautiful country and have a good meal !! :-)
Costa rican breakfasts are the best
True. I got confused when she called it "unhealthy". As if a sugary, processed average American breakfast is better.
I cool this way here in USA
Frisky is right said the guy who got fired for sexual assault.
Interesting study... I am curious about how many times a day that senior person eats and how many calories he consumes. What else does he eat? How much saturated fat and sodium in his diet? He is probably very physically active.
Uncle Shay brought me here 😂💯
Rice Bean Tortillas is the Mexican diet
How old is this video - has Matt Lauer. Well, at least the information is timeless ...
My Guanacaste💚💚💚💚
No more blue zones in 10 years😪
When my mom was a young adult, there was this shift with women. Breast’s began getting bigger and bigger. Yet in smaller communities like where I was from, women were particularly “flat chested”. It was later shown this shift was caused by the ever increasing demand for store bought meats which were pumped full of steroids. I always wonder, besides enlarging breasts, what effect this had in the population. Those who still ate meat products from local farms without the use of steroids, vs those who were now incorporating steroid filled meat into their daily diets. It’s actually scary...
are grains reallly healthy though. they probably have no stress though
They must be a healthy version of grains with no processed sugar.
Martina Todorovic thanks for commenting
No GMO
Costa rica has a system of basically free healthcare as well
🙏🏻
Fortunately, the whole food plant-based way of eating is gaining traction.
It's not what they eat. It's what they don't eat.
We have become addicted to fast food so we are feeding an industry that is actually killing the population. But hey we like it! It will be hard for us to go back to the basics when we have been doing fast food for so long.
Linus Pauling called the American Diet, "Foods of Commerce." About 100 years ago.
Ninety-nine percent of the items in the grocery store are products, not food. I shop the perimeter, plus olive oil, vinegar, spices, and decaf coffee. I don’t eat processed food. I will not let corporations ruin my health and profit from doing so.