{"id":1189,"date":"2017-09-06T07:35:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T11:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/2017\/09\/the-blue-zones-lessons-for-living-longer-from-the-people-whove-lived-the-longest\/"},"modified":"2018-07-02T07:39:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T11:39:27","slug":"the-blue-zones-lessons-for-living-longer-from-the-people-whove-lived-the-longest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/09\/the-blue-zones-lessons-for-living-longer-from-the-people-whove-lived-the-longest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who\u2019ve Lived the Longest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"byline\"><span class=\"\">By Dan Buettner<\/span>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>National Geographic, 2008<\/em>&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How do some people manage to live so long? Explorer and journalist Dan Buettner looked for answers to this question by identifying blue zones, regions with high concentrations of very old people, and analyzing lifestyles in four of them: a mountainous area of Sardinia; rural villages in Costa Rica; the tiny islands of Okinawa; and Loma Linda, California, home to 9,000 Seventh-day Adventists. Buettner brings these places and people to life, interweaving profiles of the very old and interviews with experts on aging. In the final chapter, he presents nine longevity lessons. Among other things, he recommends eating less meat, incorporating more physical activity into your life (walk, don\u2019t drive) and having a strong sense of purpose. If you follow his suggestions, there\u2019s no guarantee you\u2019ll live to 100, but he argues convincingly that you can add at least 10 healthy years to your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do some people manage to live so long? Explorer and journalist Dan Buettner looked for answers to this question by identifying regions with high concentrations of very old people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/09\/the-blue-zones-lessons-for-living-longer-from-the-people-whove-lived-the-longest\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who\u2019ve Lived the Longest<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides-to-aging-well","category-views-from-the-oldest-among-us"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4756,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/4756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}