In the “How to Live to be 100+” TedTalk Speech, Dan Buettner talk about Blue zones. These Blue Zones are specific areas found around the world where the elderly lives in vigor with record-setting ages. Considering these blue zones and the habits that are practiced there, I think it’s quite possible for the neighborhood that I live in now or even in any neighborhood community here in the United States to adopt the longevity lifestyles the blue zone areas talk about. It is not easy to change or persuade people to alter their ways however the lifestyle that are practiced by the blue zones such as eating more having plant base and controlled diet, incorporating exercises in daily life, and having a close bond to love ones alongside a strong sense
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Not the one where you have to take time off your day and go sign up for a membership at the gym or have and instructor teach you, the type of exercise that you incorporate in your daily routine. In all the blue zones mentioned by Buettner, each one of the areas mentions how physically active the specific population is. In Sardinia, even though a citizen is already passed a hundred, he/she still walks to the farm lands or chop some woods. In Okinawa as well, they incorporate exercise in their daily routine by going as far as sitting in the floor, so that they burn calories as they go rise to stand up and vice versa. In The Seventh day Adventist blue zone located in California, everyone habitually practice nature walks. The fact that these blue zones are not doing exercise as a schedule but as part of their daily routine to the point that they don’t have to think about it. Putting that scenario in my community, a simple act of using one’s legs to walk around down town instead of parking near the sidewalks is a physical exercise. Instead of driving to walk to the park, one can just walk around their neighborhood as a stroll and even yet if you want to kill two birds with one stone you pick up trash at the same time. Exercise is not something that you have to do in each Blue zones, it’s simply what you do, a part of your daily
Not the one where you have to take time off your day and go sign up for a membership at the gym or have and instructor teach you, the type of exercise that you incorporate in your daily routine. In all the blue zones mentioned by Buettner, each one of the areas mentions how physically active the specific population is. In Sardinia, even though a citizen is already passed a hundred, he/she still walks to the farm lands or chop some woods. In Okinawa as well, they incorporate exercise in their daily routine by going as far as sitting in the floor, so that they burn calories as they go rise to stand up and vice versa. In The Seventh day Adventist blue zone located in California, everyone habitually practice nature walks. The fact that these blue zones are not doing exercise as a schedule but as part of their daily routine to the point that they don’t have to think about it. Putting that scenario in my community, a simple act of using one’s legs to walk around down town instead of parking near the sidewalks is a physical exercise. Instead of driving to walk to the park, one can just walk around their neighborhood as a stroll and even yet if you want to kill two birds with one stone you pick up trash at the same time. Exercise is not something that you have to do in each Blue zones, it’s simply what you do, a part of your daily