3 easy ways to bring the Blue Zone diet home from Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula

The thing they all have in common? A focus on simple, balanced meals made of lean proteins and fresh produce. It’s old wisdom, but there’s a reason this advice has stood the test of time.

In Costa Rica, fad diets — from carnivore to intermittent fasting — don’t have the same pull as in the US. The tried-and-true formula of whole foods is part of why people in the Nicoya region live so long, and it became tried-and-true for a reason.