Blue Zone - Healthy Centurions Zones

Netflix documentary on "Blue Zone - Healthy Centurions who live nearing 100 or over 100 yo, healthy".

Why Blue Zone?

1. It started when researchers started to dot a "blue-dot" each place a Centurion was spotted.

2. Over time, over the world, they notice that there are trending of Healthy Centurions living in a Zones in various parts of the world.

3. The documentary visit these zones to speak to these Centurions, to gather their livestyles.

4. They are healthy, many unaided, independent, good mental capacity, physical healthy.

5. I happened to see two series of these Blue Zones:

*Japan, Okinawa Blue Zone*
*Italy Sardinia Blue Zone*
*USA Loma Linda Blue Zone*

6. I captured some points here, for sharing:

- Frequent Walks; (some on steep uphill)
- Community social norms. Community care and eat together. Not living in isolation. Care for Elderly.

- Traditions n Religion; faith n hope, interaction, choir
- Right Tribe with healthy habits and behaviors.
- Volunteering services
- Regular plant based diet; beans, nuts, veg to improve body immunity
- Emotional health. At peace, contentment. Something to live for.

- Stay active, gardening, cooking together


- Notice that they are not city living; living in suburbs or country sides.

- No long term Stresses.


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Isn't these are what we living in SG are doing? except maybe for Plant based diet and city-living?)

With excellent health care, we have prolonged our lives; highest Life Expectancy in the World at age 83~85; but healthy body upto age 75;

The remaining 10 years are in unhealthy life expectancy stage.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SGP/singapore/life-expectancy

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