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What if you could live a longer, happier, healthier life?

Discover the secrets to longevity.

You've already learned about five areas in the world called "blue zones" where people reach age 100 at a rate that is ten times greater than in the United States and with lower rates of chronic disease. Now, find out how residents of each region incorporate the Power 9 into their daily lives in order to live longer, better.

Okinawa, Japan

Touch down on these South Pacific islands and you’ll meet residents—including the world’s longest-lived women—eating three foods that could help every American live longer.

Sardinia, Italy

Visit this Mediterranean island—home to the greatest concentration of male centenarians in the world—and you’ll discover healthy lifestyles that have not changed much for thousands of years.

Nicoya, Costa Rica

Grab a bike and pedal along a path on this Pacific coast peninsula and you’ll find colorful houses, exotic fruits and residents twice as likely as Americans to reach a healthy age 90. Is it something in the water?

Ikaria, Greece

Travel to this tiny Aegean Island to discover the secrets of residents who live eight years longer than Americans, have half the rate of heart disease and almost no dementia.

Loma Linda, California

Pull off the San Bernardino freeway east of Los Angeles and you’ll encounter a community of Adventists teaching us new lessons about the power of faith, friendship and fruit.

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This 4-week challenge could help add a decade or more to your life

There are places in the world, called Blue Zones , where people naturally live long, happy, healthy lives. And you don’t have to pack up and move to Okinawa, Japan, or Ikaria, Greece, to increase your lifespan. You can bring the lessons of the Blue Zones to your own life, home, family and neighborhood.

Researchers found out about the Blue Zones after they discovered that genetics is only responsible for about 20% of how long you live. That means other factors are behind 80% of your longevity. By studying the habits and lifestyles of the people who live the longest, we can tease out the common threads and weave them into our own lives.

Dan Buettner wrote the original National Geographic cover story on the Blue Zones, “The Secrets of Long Life,” and a series of books centered around the Blue Zones. His latest book, " The Blue Zones Challenge: A 4-Week Plan for a Longer, Better Life ," shows how to optimize your life for better health and longevity. “I am simply distilling what the world longest-living people have done and showing you a way to put it to work in your life,” he told TODAY.

In the Blue Zones, people don’t have to think about making healthy choices. They live in cultures where the healthy choices are the default choices. They mainly eat a plant-based diet. They walk and garden. They spend time with the people they love.

“People in the Blue Zones don’t have better discipline or better adherence to habits or better self-control than we do in America. They simply live in places where the healthy choice is the easy choice. Their unconscious decisions are better throughout the day, and over years and over decades, that’s what works when it comes to longevity,” Buettner said. “It’s not about trying to change your habits, because trying to change your habits usually fails. What we’re asking you to do is make some long-term changes to your surroundings, and then just live in it. And you should live longer and happier.”

The Blue Zones Challenge uses evidence-based nudges to guide you through four weeks that can help you design your environment so you, too, can make healthy choices by default. The challenge starts with self-tests of your vitality, happiness and purpose. After four weeks, you can retake these tests to see how the changes are making a difference in your life.

Over the four weeks of the challenge, you’ll take advantage of opportunities to eat healthy foods, move more, connect with others, and practice other healthy habits from the Blue Zones. “Four weeks is enough time to reshape the environments that are going to make a difference in your life,” Buettner said.

Here are a few key messages from the book.

Connect with people who support your goals

Building your social network is crucial for living a healthy lifestyle. “When you think of longevity, you have to think about things that are going to last for years or decades. And friends, especially our best friends, tend to be in our lives for a long time, and they exert a measurable influence on how we behave,” Buettner said.

You need at least one Blue Zones buddy, and ideally two or three real-life friends who:

• You can count on to care about you on a bad day.
• ·Like being active — that could mean walking, tennis, gardening or biking.
• Eat a primarily plant-based diet.

You might find like-minded people in faith-based groups, plant-based cooking classes, volunteer organizations, Meetup groups, the Blue Zones Life Facebook page , or your neighborhood. You can plan to get together with these people a couple of times a week for a walk or a meal, or connect with short video chats if you don’t live close to each other.

Design your home for better health

Make it easy to default to healthier choices. Start in your kitchen. “If you’re eating a whole-food, plant-based diet , it’s probably worth six years of life expectancy over eating the standard American diet,” Buettner said. He recommends you get an Instant Pot , pressure cooker or Crock-Pot and a good whole-food, plant-based cookbook. Along with your family, find a half-dozen recipes that sound good and cook them together.

“The most important ingredient in any longevity diet is taste,” he said. “What we care about is what tastes good at our next meal.”

 He pointed out that you can still have treats, just save them for when you go out. At home, stock up on healthy foods and eliminate foods that aren’t so good for you, or store them out of view.

Here are a few more healthy home-design tips:

• Put your walking or running shoes out where they will remind you to use them.
• Set up a corner with pillows where you can sit and read or work on the floor — getting up and down from the floor builds strength.

Find your purpose

People in the Blue Zones have a sense of purpose that shapes their lives. “We know from good research that comes from the National Institutes on Aging that people who can articulate their sense of purpose live about eight years longer than people who are rudderless,” Buettner said.

Your purpose might come from your work, volunteering, a hobby or your family. 

Thinking about your purpose might take some time, but it’s worth it when you start every day filled with joy and intention. Buettner recommends writing a purpose statement that captures your essence, one where you envision how your life has an impact on the world.

Try these six simple steps

Not ready to commit to the Blue Zones Challenge? Buettner offers a few easy-to-implement tips that can help you live longer:

• Eat a handful of nuts every day. Nut-eaters live about two years longer than non-nut-eaters.
• Learn to like beans. Beans are a common food in all the Blue Zones , and eating about a cup a day could add four years to your life expectancy.
• Keep a bowl of fresh fruit on the counter. Seeing it will nudge you toward a healthy snack.
• If you drink alcohol, make it wine. Specifically, cannonau wine. That’s a wine made from the grenache grape that the people of Sardinia, Italy, drink — it has three times the healthy polyphenols you’ll find in other wines, he said.
• Get the toaster off your kitchen counter. Most of what we put in toasters is unhealthy, Buettner explained.
• Plan your meals. It makes grocery shopping — and healthy eating— easier.

Stephanie Thurrott is a writer who covers mental health, personal growth, wellness, family, food and personal finance, and dabbles in just about any other topic that grabs her attention. When she's not writing, look for her out walking her dog or riding her bike in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. 

Your Blue Zones Project & Adventist Health Power 9 Wrap-up

Residents of the world's original blue zones live in diverse geographical and cultural regions. Though the Power 9 looks a little different in each location, the commonalities working together contribute to physical, social, and emotional well-being which are essential to health and longevity. 

You too can begin implementing Power 9 practices into your daily life by starting with the principles you're drawn to the most. Take the Blue Zones ® Personal Pledge and choose small actions to get started.

Pretty soon, you'll be eating better, moving more, expanding your social circle, and living each day with the right outlook for a longer, healthier life.

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Valley In Motion, a non-profit based in Mayfield, PA, is leading a coalition of health care organizations, foundations, and others to help NEPA become a Blue Zones Community.

“Blue Zones” are places where entire communities live significantly longer, healthier, and more active lives. A National Geographic study identified the commonalities across the Blue Zones areas that have led to their longevity and vitality. More than 50 communities across the United States have started the journey to become a Blue Zones Community. We’d like NEPA to be next.

This transformation is a large, multi-disciplinary effort that involves the entire community – schools, restaurants, grocery stores, government, businesses, faith-based organizations, and individuals. It works if we all get behind it.

As a leader in our community, we are thrilled to invite you to participate in an input session that will help the Blue Zones Project team learn more about NEPA and how employers are supporting employee wellbeing across NEPA. We ask for your help in representing employers in your region and sharing your ideas about the unique strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving well-being in our community. There will be three “worksite wellness” sessions held April 27 – April 30. Space is limited, so please review the schedule and RSVP today.

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For the input session schedule and to RSVP for any of the events, visit: go.bluezonesproject.com/NEPA . If you have questions, please contact Gus Fahey, President, Valley In Motion at [email protected] .

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City of Columbia and Prisma Health Introduce Blue Zones Initiative

Who: Mayor Daniel J. Rickenmann, City Council members, Prisma Health Representatives, Blue Zones Representatives.

What: Join us for a Blue Zones Columbia Speaking Event where a Blue Zones expert, Danny Buettner, will present the research on the longest-lived and healthiest places in the world as well as the common lifestyle and cultural traits of those regions. You’ll then learn how these traits have been implemented in communities throughout the United States and what communities can do to promote health and well-being.

Danny Buettner, son of Blue Zones author and founder Dan Buettner, is currently a Blue Zones Spokesperson and the Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer at Blue Zones LLC. Danny works directly with communities who want to bring the life-changing benefits of a Blue Zones program to their people and places. His unique perspective on the Blue Zones message is perfect for community champions looking for an emphasis on the ROI of sustainable operating models, inspiring local awareness, and unlocking the power of courageous service.

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When: Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 5:00PM – 7:00PM

Where: Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center 1101 Lincoln St, Columbia, SC 29201

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Spend some time in one of Moscow’s finest museums.

Subterranean commuting might not be anyone’s idea of a good time, but even in a city packing the war-games treasures and priceless bejeweled eggs of the Kremlin Armoury and the colossal Soviet pavilions of the VDNKh , the Metro holds up as one of Moscow’s finest museums. Just avoid rush hour.

The Metro is stunning and provides an unrivaled insight into the city’s psyche, past and present, but it also happens to be the best way to get around. Moscow has Uber, and the Russian version called Yandex Taxi , but also some nasty traffic. Metro trains come around every 90 seconds or so, at a more than 99 percent on-time rate. It’s also reasonably priced, with a single ride at 55 cents (and cheaper in bulk). From history to tickets to rules — official and not — here’s what you need to know to get started.

A Brief Introduction Buying Tickets Know Before You Go (Down) Rules An Easy Tour

A Brief Introduction

Moscow’s Metro was a long time coming. Plans for rapid transit to relieve the city’s beleaguered tram system date back to the Imperial era, but a couple of wars and a revolution held up its development. Stalin revived it as part of his grand plan to modernize the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. The first lines and tunnels were constructed with help from engineers from the London Underground, although Stalin’s secret police decided that they had learned too much about Moscow’s layout and had them arrested on espionage charges and deported.

The beauty of its stations (if not its trains) is well-documented, and certainly no accident. In its illustrious first phases and particularly after the Second World War, the greatest architects of Soviet era were recruited to create gleaming temples celebrating the Revolution, the USSR, and the war triumph. No two stations are exactly alike, and each of the classic showpieces has a theme. There are world-famous shrines to Futurist architecture, a celebration of electricity, tributes to individuals and regions of the former Soviet Union. Each marble slab, mosaic tile, or light fixture was placed with intent, all in service to a station’s aesthetic; each element, f rom the smallest brass ear of corn to a large blood-spattered sword on a World War II mural, is an essential part of the whole.

The Metro is a monument to the Soviet propaganda project it was intended to be when it opened in 1935 with the slogan “Building a Palace for the People”. It brought the grand interiors of Imperial Russia to ordinary Muscovites, celebrated the Soviet Union’s past achievements while promising its citizens a bright Soviet future, and of course, it was a show-piece for the world to witness the might and sophistication of life in the Soviet Union.

It may be a museum, but it’s no relic. U p to nine million people use it daily, more than the London Underground and New York Subway combined. (Along with, at one time, about 20 stray dogs that learned to commute on the Metro.)

In its 80+ year history, the Metro has expanded in phases and fits and starts, in step with the fortunes of Moscow and Russia. Now, partly in preparation for the World Cup 2018, it’s also modernizing. New trains allow passengers to walk the entire length of the train without having to change carriages. The system is becoming more visitor-friendly. (There are helpful stickers on the floor marking out the best selfie spots .) But there’s a price to modernity: it’s phasing out one of its beloved institutions, the escalator attendants. Often they are middle-aged or elderly women—“ escalator grandmas ” in news accounts—who have held the post for decades, sitting in their tiny kiosks, scolding commuters for bad escalator etiquette or even bad posture, or telling jokes . They are slated to be replaced, when at all, by members of the escalator maintenance staff.

For all its achievements, the Metro lags behind Moscow’s above-ground growth, as Russia’s capital sprawls ever outwards, generating some of the world’s worst traffic jams . But since 2011, the Metro has been in the middle of an ambitious and long-overdue enlargement; 60 new stations are opening by 2020. If all goes to plan, the 2011-2020 period will have brought 125 miles of new tracks and over 100 new stations — a 40 percent increase — the fastest and largest expansion phase in any period in the Metro’s history.

Facts: 14 lines Opening hours: 5 a.m-1 a.m. Rush hour(s): 8-10 a.m, 4-8 p.m. Single ride: 55₽ (about 85 cents) Wi-Fi network-wide

Buying Tickets

• Ticket machines have a button to switch to English.
• You can buy specific numbers of rides: 1, 2, 5, 11, 20, or 60. Hold up fingers to show how many rides you want to buy.
• There is also a 90-minute ticket , which gets you 1 trip on the metro plus an unlimited number of transfers on other transport (bus, tram, etc) within 90 minutes.
• Or, you can buy day tickets with unlimited rides: one day (218₽/ US$4), three days (415₽/US$7) or seven days (830₽/US$15). Check the rates here to stay up-to-date.
• If you’re going to be using the Metro regularly over a few days, it’s worth getting a Troika card , a contactless, refillable card you can use on all public transport. Using the Metro is cheaper with one of these: a single ride is 36₽, not 55₽. Buy them and refill them in the Metro stations, and they’re valid for 5 years, so you can keep it for next time. Or, if you have a lot of cash left on it when you leave, you can get it refunded at the Metro Service Centers at Ulitsa 1905 Goda, 25 or at Staraya Basmannaya 20, Building 1.
• You can also buy silicone bracelets and keychains with built-in transport chips that you can use as a Troika card. (A Moscow Metro Fitbit!) So far, you can only get these at the Pushkinskaya metro station Live Helpdesk and souvenir shops in the Mayakovskaya and Trubnaya metro stations. The fare is the same as for the Troika card.
• You can also use Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

Rules, spoken and unspoken

No smoking, no drinking, no filming, no littering. Photography is allowed, although it used to be banned.

Stand to the right on the escalator. Break this rule and you risk the wrath of the legendary escalator attendants. (No shenanigans on the escalators in general.)

Get out of the way. Find an empty corner to hide in when you get off a train and need to stare at your phone. Watch out getting out of the train in general; when your train doors open, people tend to appear from nowhere or from behind ornate marble columns, walking full-speed.

Always offer your seat to elderly ladies (what are you, a monster?).

An Easy Tour

This is no Metro Marathon ( 199 stations in 20 hours ). It’s an easy tour, taking in most—though not all—of the notable stations, the bulk of it going clockwise along the Circle line, with a couple of short detours. These stations are within minutes of one another, and the whole tour should take about 1-2 hours.

Start at Mayakovskaya Metro station , at the corner of Tverskaya and Garden Ring,  Triumfalnaya Square, Moskva, Russia, 125047.

1. Mayakovskaya.  Named for Russian Futurist Movement poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and an attempt to bring to life the future he imagined in his poems. (The Futurist Movement, natch, was all about a rejecting the past and celebrating all things speed, industry, modern machines, youth, modernity.) The result: an Art Deco masterpiece that won the National Grand Prix for architecture at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. It’s all smooth, rounded shine and light, and gentle arches supported by columns of dark pink marble and stainless aircraft steel. Each of its 34 ceiling niches has a mosaic. During World War II, the station was used as an air-raid shelter and, at one point, a bunker for Stalin. He gave a subdued but rousing speech here in Nov. 6, 1941 as the Nazis bombed the city above.

Take the 3/Green line one station to:

2. Belorusskaya. Opened in 1952, named after the connected Belarussky Rail Terminal, which runs trains between Moscow and Belarus. This is a light marble affair with a white, cake-like ceiling, lined with Belorussian patterns and 12 Florentine ceiling mosaics depicting life in Belarussia when it was built.

Transfer onto the 1/Brown line. Then, one stop (clockwise) t o:

3. Novoslobodskaya.  This station was designed around the stained-glass panels, which were made in Latvia, because Alexey Dushkin, the Soviet starchitect who dreamed it up (and also designed Mayakovskaya station) couldn’t find the glass and craft locally. The stained glass is the same used for Riga’s Cathedral, and the panels feature plants, flowers, members of the Soviet intelligentsia (musician, artist, architect) and geometric shapes.

Go two stops east on the 1/Circle line to:

4. Komsomolskaya. Named after the Komsomol, or the Young Communist League, this might just be peak Stalin Metro style. Underneath the hub for three regional railways, it was intended to be a grand gateway to Moscow and is today its busiest station. It has chandeliers; a yellow ceiling with Baroque embellishments; and in the main hall, a colossal red star overlaid on golden, shimmering tiles. Designer Alexey Shchusev designed it as an homage to the speech Stalin gave at Red Square on Nov. 7, 1941, in which he invoked Russia’s illustrious military leaders as a pep talk to Soviet soldiers through the first catastrophic year of the war.   The station’s eight large mosaics are of the leaders referenced in the speech, such as Alexander Nevsky, a 13th-century prince and military commander who bested German and Swedish invading armies.

One more stop clockwise to Kurskaya station,  and change onto the 3/Blue  line, and go one stop to:

5. Baumanskaya.   Opened in 1944. Named for the Bolshevik Revolutionary Nikolai Bauman , whose monument and namesake district are aboveground here. Though he seemed like a nasty piece of work (he apparently once publicly mocked a woman he had impregnated, who later hung herself), he became a Revolutionary martyr when he was killed in 1905 in a skirmish with a monarchist, who hit him on the head with part of a steel pipe. The station is in Art Deco style with atmospherically dim lighting, and a series of bronze sculptures of soldiers and homefront heroes during the War. At one end, there is a large mosaic portrait of Lenin.

Stay on that train direction one more east to:

6. Elektrozavodskaya. As you may have guessed from the name, this station is the Metro’s tribute to all thing electrical, built in 1944 and named after a nearby lightbulb factory. It has marble bas-relief sculptures of important figures in electrical engineering, and others illustrating the Soviet Union’s war-time struggles at home. The ceiling’s recurring rows of circular lamps give the station’s main tunnel a comforting glow, and a pleasing visual effect.

Double back two stops to Kurskaya station , and change back to the 1/Circle line. Sit tight for six stations to:

7. Kiyevskaya. This was the last station on the Circle line to be built, in 1954, completed under Nikita Khrushchev’ s guidance, as a tribute to his homeland, Ukraine. Its three large station halls feature images celebrating Ukraine’s contributions to the Soviet Union and Russo-Ukrainian unity, depicting musicians, textile-working, soldiers, farmers. (One hall has frescoes, one mosaics, and the third murals.) Shortly after it was completed, Khrushchev condemned the architectural excesses and unnecessary luxury of the Stalin era, which ushered in an epoch of more austere Metro stations. According to the legend at least, he timed the policy in part to ensure no Metro station built after could outshine Kiyevskaya.

Change to the 3/Blue line and go one stop west.

8. Park Pobedy. This is the deepest station on the Metro, with one of the world’s longest escalators, at 413 feet. If you stand still, the escalator ride to the surface takes about three minutes .) Opened in 2003 at Victory Park, the station celebrates two of Russia’s great military victories. Each end has a mural by Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli, who also designed the “ Good Defeats Evil ” statue at the UN headquarters in New York. One mural depicts the Russian generals’ victory over the French in 1812 and the other, the German surrender of 1945. The latter is particularly striking; equal parts dramatic, triumphant, and gruesome. To the side, Red Army soldiers trample Nazi flags, and if you look closely there’s some blood spatter among the detail. Still, the biggest impressions here are the marble shine of the chessboard floor pattern and the pleasingly geometric effect if you view from one end to the other.

Keep going one more stop west to:

9. Slavyansky Bulvar.  One of the Metro’s youngest stations, it opened in 2008. With far higher ceilings than many other stations—which tend to have covered central tunnels on the platforms—it has an “open-air” feel (or as close to it as you can get, one hundred feet under). It’s an homage to French architect Hector Guimard, he of the Art Nouveau entrances for the Paris M é tro, and that’s precisely what this looks like: A Moscow homage to the Paris M é tro, with an additional forest theme. A Cyrillic twist on Guimard’s Metro-style lettering over the benches, furnished with t rees and branch motifs, including creeping vines as towering lamp-posts.

Stay on the 3/Blue line and double back four stations to:

10. Arbatskaya. Its first iteration, Arbatskaya-Smolenskaya station, was damaged by German bombs in 1941. It was rebuilt in 1953, and designed to double as a bomb shelter in the event of nuclear war, although unusually for stations built in the post-war phase, this one doesn’t have a war theme. It may also be one of the system’s most elegant: Baroque, but toned down a little, with red marble floors and white ceilings with gilded bronze c handeliers.

Jump back on the 3/Blue line  in the same direction and take it one more stop:

11. Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square). Opened in 1938, and serving Red Square and the Kremlin . Its renowned central hall has marble columns flanked by 76 bronze statues of Soviet heroes: soldiers, students, farmers, athletes, writers, parents. Some of these statues’ appendages have a yellow sheen from decades of Moscow’s commuters rubbing them for good luck. Among the most popular for a superstitious walk-by rub: the snout of a frontier guard’s dog, a soldier’s gun (where the touch of millions of human hands have tapered the gun barrel into a fine, pointy blade), a baby’s foot, and a woman’s knee. (A brass rooster also sports the telltale gold sheen, though I am told that rubbing the rooster is thought to bring bad luck. )

Now take the escalator up, and get some fresh air.

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Tulsa Regional Chamber and OU-Tulsa to host presentation on ‘Blue Zones Project’ for better health

Tulsa has started to show interest in joining the Blue Zones Project® communities around the nation like Fort Worth and Iowa. Tony Buettner, Senior VP of business development at Blue Zones is to speak at the University of Oklahoma – Tulsa on Tuesday at 5 p.m. The event will teach people about the Blue Zones Project and how Blue Zones® is making the healthy choice the easy choice in cities all over the country.

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