Designing Communities for Longevity: The Blue Zones Project

by Angie Schmitt, Streets Blog
Is your neighborhood designed to make people healthy or sick? With the right characteristics, the place where you live could add years to your life.
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The team boiled down their research to nine principles for longevity and health. The number one principle? “Move Naturally.”
“The world’s longest-lived people don’t pump iron, run marathons or join gyms,” the researchers wrote. “Instead, they live in environments that constantly nudge them into moving without thinking about it.”
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https://dc.streetsblog.org/2013/02/08/designing-communities-for-longevity-the-blue-zones-project/
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[B’ Spokes: Note that Maryland ranks 33 in terms of longevity (below average.) Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_life_expectancy ]