Manda Wolf, President of the Healthy Fayette County Board of Directors and Linda Fitzgerald, facilitator announce a $5000 grant from the Duke Energy Foundation. The grant is awarded in support of the organization’s initiative to bring the Blue Zones Phase One model to Connersville-Fayette County in 2026. “Tom DeBaun, government and community relations manager for […]
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You’ve probably heard that lifestyle choices affect how long you live. But what if the bigger factor isn’t willpower, it’s your environment? Researchers studying the world’s longest-lived communities found that people in Blue Zones aren’t trying harder than the rest of us. They’ve just built their daily lives around habits that make healthy behavior almost
Blue Zones are places around the world where people consistently live longer, healthier lives. Researchers identified five of them: Sardinia, Italy; Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa, Japan; Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; and Loma Linda, California. What they found in each of these communities wasn’t a miracle drug or a trendy diet. It was a way of life,
