it could be possible nbc news special anchor maria schriver is going to show us how. >> hi maria. >>healthier is sharing their secret recipes, 100 to be impact in the "blue zones kitchen." it's a journey two years in the making. >> you can see that exact scene a thousand years ago and ian shepherd gathering dinner. >> if you want the secret recipe of living to 100, dan buettner knows where to find it. >> we spent two years going to the villages with the old ladies and watching them cook they don't use measuring cups and they don't use teaspoons. >> the "national geographic" explorer and best selling author has been on a mission to write down the meals of the world's oldest and healthiest people before they are lost forever many of the blue zone areas you have visited, the western diet is coming in and bulldozing their traditions. >> a literal fountain of youth is disappearing. >> it's a journey we have been on together from the greek island. >> this is wild dandelion, we boil it like you would a spinach. >> these greens it turns out have ten times more antioxidants than red wine does

yesterday, maria schriver was here to show us what some of the world's oldest and healthiest people eat see. good morning, maria. >> for two years we have joined best selling author dan buettner on a journey to write down the recipes of the blue zones. those are the five regions in okinawa, sardinia, costa rica, and loma linda, california, where people live longer and healthier than anywhere else on earth the question is could they be eating what they're eating, does that add years to our lives. well, we teamed up with dan to try it out in one american city and the results were remarkable. >> dan buettner said he found the recipe on how to reach a happy and healthy 100th year, 100 recipes to be exact, all written down during a two-year journey through the blue zones, places around the world where people seem to defy the limits of age. >> without heart disease, cancer or diabetes, any diseases plaguing america this is what they eat. beyond a shadow of a doubt what people are eating to live to 100. >> we're seeing 500 years of wisdom concentrated in one bowl. >> those recipes in his new b