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How to live to be a hundred?

By Lenore Miller


Ever thought you'd like to live to 100? I bet your next thought was 'well only if I can be fit and healthy'. Well, understand the lifestyle of those who live in the worlds 'blue zones' could assist us in making the appropriate lifestyle changes to be able to do just that. Below are some tips to get moving in this direction.

1. Move Naturally - they tend to have a lifestyle that includes lots of incidental exercise - like house work and tending the garden. Intentional exercise is pursuing things they love like walking in nature.

2. Outlook - they know how to down-shift or take time to go slow. Examples are taking time to meditate or pray or even switching off from the world every Saturday or Sunday. Even 15 minutes per day of down time can switch off the bodies inflammatory response which is our bodies response to living a stressful western lifestyle. They also have a vocabulary for purpose

3. Eat Wisely - They tend to eat a plant based diet and drink alcohol in small quantities every day. They eat until they are 80% full and have strategies to stop.

4. Connection - families first looking after their children and elderly and have a faith based community. They experience a sense of belonging and they belong to the right 'tribe'. The example he gives is that if your five closest friends are obese you probably will be too, however if you hang out with people who enjoy physical activity as fun then you are more likely to be physically healthy and active.

So How long will you live? Will you live to 100?

Dan Buettner and his team continue to research, however what they do tell us is that making some lifestyle changes in line with the populations of the worlds blue zones will add years to your current life expectancy and the quality of that life.

Who Is Dan Buettner?

What do Seventh-Day Adventists in California, the residents of Sardinia, Italy and the inhabitants of the islands of Okinawa, Japan have in common? They enjoy the longest, healthiest lives on the planet. Dan Buettner assembled a team of researchers to seek out these "hotspots of human health and vitality," which he calls Blue Zones, and to figure out what they do that helps them live so long.

Buettner, a world-renowned explorer and a writer for National Geographic, travels the world seeking out new Blue Zones (he's found five, to date) and speaking at seminars and on TV, sharing the habits that lead to long life. He is the founder of Quest Network, and has set three world records for endurance cycling.

"Dan Buettner takes us on a journey to explore the secrets of longevity and in so doing introduces us to a world of joy in aging ... at 91, this is very good news!" Walter Cronkite




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