{"id":258246663,"date":"2013-03-08T23:11:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T23:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=258246663"},"modified":"2013-03-08T23:11:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T23:11:03","slug":"designing-communities-for-longevity-the-blue-zones-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=258246663","title":{"rendered":"Designing Communities for Longevity: The Blue Zones Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Angie Schmitt, Streets Blog<br \/>\nIs your neighborhood designed to make people healthy or sick? With the right characteristics, the place where you live could add years to your life.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe team boiled down their research to nine principles for longevity and health. The number one principle? \u201cMove Naturally.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe world\u2019s longest-lived people don\u2019t pump iron, run marathons or join gyms,\u201d the researchers wrote. \u201cInstead, they live in environments that constantly nudge them into moving without thinking about it.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2013\/02\/08\/designing-communities-for-longevity-the-blue-zones-project\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2013\/02\/08\/designing-communities-for-longevity-the-blue-zones-project\/<\/a><br \/>\n**********************************************************************************************************<br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: Note that Maryland ranks 33 in terms of longevity (below average.) Ref: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_U.S._states_by_life_expectancy\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_U.S._states_by_life_expectancy<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8230; The team boiled down their research to nine principles for longevity and health. The number one principle? \u201cMove Naturally.\u201d \u201cThe world\u2019s longest-lived people don\u2019t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=258246663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Designing Communities for Longevity: The Blue Zones Project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258246663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258246663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258246663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258246663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258246663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258246663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258246663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}