Weeks - The healthiest people on earth: your guide to living 10 years longer with Adventist family secrets and plant-based recipes

Praise for The Healthiest People on Earth

A fascinating and important book that I hope will inspire many more people to embrace optimal nutrition and improve their quality of life.

T. COLIN CAMPBELL, PHD , coauthor of international bestseller The China Study and the New York Times bestseller Whole

With humor and a rich family history, John Howard Weeks brings the basics of Blue Zone living into the new millenniumand right into your own kitchen. By showing how to take the steps to plant-sourced eating and healthy living with ease, along with a fresh Happy Home Remedy punctuating every chapter, Weeks lays the groundwork for creating your own thriving Blue Zoneeasily, and anywhere in the world.

LANI MUELRATH, author of The Mindful Vegan, The Plant-Based Journey, and Fit Quickies

A joyful romp through John Howard Weekss life and discovery that to live energetically and healthily he needed to change what he chose. Choosing to live a vibrant life, he chose a plant-based diet. Choice is key. He demonstrates how anyone can do the same. In his lively conversational tone, Weeks tells how he fell from health and how he returned. Offering practical tips, remedies, and recipes, he also shines light into North Americas only Blue Zone in which people live on average ten years longer than others.

JEFF STANFORD, coauthor of Dining at The Ravens

John Howard Weeks has written a book for people like mewho love life and want to live as long as possible. Its an accessible, practical guide for how to adopt optimal habits and enjoy the process. Easy to read, and easy to do!

PAMELA A. POPPER, PHD, ND, president of Wellness Forum Health

I believe that everyone should want to live as healthy as possible for as long as possible. In a compassionate, honest, and articulate manner... sprinkled in with brilliant humor and candor... author John Howard Weeks presents in The Healthiest People on Earth a whole life lesson for us that will serve as a blueprint for reaching that goal.

NICHOLAS R. CATALDO, author, educator, and San Bernardino County historian

If you want to learn how to live a healthier lifestyle and perhaps live a little longer, this book will show you how. Thankfully, Weekss gentle humor makes the whole prospect very easy to digest.

JOHN PLESSEL, columnist for the Southern California News Group and food blogger for Dine 909

There are many books talking about healthy eating but reading The Healthiest People on Earth really gives you convincing data that following a vegetarian diet really is better for you. John Howard Weeks has the uncanny ability to make the reading easy and engaging. I guess its time for me to alter my diet! I encourage everyone to read this life enhancing book.

ALLAN BORGEN, food critic and host of the PBS television and radio show Lets Dine Out

John Howard Weekss latest book, The Healthiest People on Earth, is more than packed with information to create your own Blue Heaven on Earth (a Blue Zone). It is a fascinating, easy, and fun read!

BILLIE J. RUBEN, natural health activist and 18-year cancer survivor without surgery or chemotherapy

Weeks nails it! This important work is the latest in a growing body of evidence that a plant-based diet is the path to longevity and quality of life. A must-read for all who want fewer doctor visits and lower medical bills.

ROBERT S. PETERSON, MPH, former director of Public Health Education at Castle Medical Center in Kailua, Hawaii

This is an informative yet really enjoyable and honest book about living your life to the fullest. People who know me know I used to love to eat meat. But I became a 95% vegetarian over a year ago because I finally read The China Study, which John talks about in The Healthiest People on Earth. I wish that I had known the facts about eating well when I was growing up. I would have never eaten meat. This book shows how anyone can change.

PHIL YEH, graphic artist, author, and creator of The Winged Tiger

I have to admit that Im not a big reader of diet instruction. However, having started in on this book I realized it was very different from the normal type. Firstly, Weekss sense of humor soon spills over into what is, after all, a somewhat dry subject. Secondly, although it follows the dietary precepts of Seventh-day Adventists, theres not a trace of religion in it. For that I was glad as Ive always been suspicious of congregations who believe the Deity is concerned with our food selections. No, The Healthiest People on Earth is simply a guide to how we can benefit from a diet that is almost certain to not only prolong our lives but to help us keep out of the doctors office. Throughout the book, I kept feeling that this all made absolute sense and in fact, it is the right thing to do. What is also helpful, however, is a complete chapter on cheating, if you fall off the rails from time to time.

Trevor Summons, columnist and author of Trevors Travels, Requital, Transposition, McConnells, and A Charmed Life

The Healthiest People on Earth

The Healthiest People on Earth

Your Guide to Living 10 Years Longer with Adventist Family Secrets and Plant-Based Recipes

JOHN HOWARD WEEKS

The Great-Great-Grandson of Seventh-day Adventist Founder Ellen G. White

BenBella Books, Inc.
Dallas, TX

This book is not a substitute for hands-on professional health care. Any changes in your diet, fitness, and health regimen should be discussed with your physician.

Copyright 2018 by John Howard Weeks

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

All photos are courtesy of the authors personal collection.

BenBella Books, Inc.

10440 N. Central Expressway, Suite 800 | Dallas, TX 75231

First E-Book Edition: April 2018

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Weeks, John Howard, 1949- author.

Title: The healthiest people on earth : your guide to living 10 years longer with Adventist family secrets and plant-based recipes / John Howard Weeks, the great-great-grandson of Seventh-day Adventist founder Ellen G. White.

Description: Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017047920 (print) | LCCN 2017048798 (ebook) | ISBN 9781946885227 (electronic) | ISBN 9781944648862 (paperback : alk. paper)