Daniel Buettner, author of The Blue Zones, found that in communities where residents routinely live to 100, people:

• Walk 
  
• Eat beans
  
• Stop eating before they’re full
  
• Drink a glass of red wine daily
  
• Have purpose
  
• Slow down
  
• Belong to a community
  

“We think of health as something to pursue with diets and exercise programs. In Blue Zones, people live in a climate where the healthy choice is the easy choice and health ensues,” Buettner said at the donor-funded David A. Rothenberger Lecture at the U’s Medical School last fall.