The longevity researcher reveals a new habit. You should start on Sunday

Abandon your New Year resolutions and plan to focus on this instead.


New year, new you. But if you have already slipped on your New Year's resolutions , you're not alone. Dan Buettner , researcher of longevity and founder of Blue areas LLC, underlined a worrying statistic on these resolutions In a new interview With Insider: According to 2019 data from the Fitness Strava follow -up application, "more than 70% will fail by January 19," said Buettner. This is why the researcher says that you should forget your resolutions and introduce a healthy habit on Sunday.

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Buettner has spent more than 20 years looking for five regions of the world where people are more likely to live after 100. Known as "blue areas", they are Ikaria, Greece; Loma Linda, California; Sardinia, Italy; Okinawa, Japan; And Nicoya, Costa Rica.

Thanks to his work by exploring lifestyles and regimes of people living in these places, Buettner said to inside that he had perfected a healthy habit that he thinks would serve as a new year resolution ideal for people around the world in 2024.

"Instead of resolving," I'm going to have a diet to lose weight ", which never works, spend in January - a week of Sunday - and cooking healthy foods with your family," he advised .

According to Buettner, you must identify 12 new recipes you want to try before the end of the month. Based on the recipes he has collected in blue areas, it is important that these recipes are healthy, delicious and filled at the same time. You can search for an entire kitchen book, based on plants to inspire you.

"Cook three recipes every Sunday for a month, recipes that seem delicious to you," said Buettner. "At the end of the month, you will have done three things: the skills necessary to cook 12 meals; you will know that you have the equipment to cook them because you have cooked them; and you will have the experience of tasting them."

In relation: People who live at 100 eat the "healthiest breakfast in the world," said the researcher .

Of course, a large part of this work resolution is that you have a better chance of achieving it than a broader and more dramatic New Year resolution. In that spirit, do not be too strict with yourself exactly when you prepare these meals.

According to Buettner, the Sunday of the plan is to create a specific and usable routine. You can change this habit for everything that works for you and your own schedule.

This flexibility means that you can either prepare several meals on Sunday for the rest of the week, or simply use that day to sign three new recipes that you want to make at some point during the week. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"As long as you can get four or five meals that you like that are whole foods, based on plants, you are about to eat at 100," he said to inside.

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