Blue Zones Project - Monterey County

Blue Zones Project is a community-wide well-being improvement initiative to help make healthy choices easier for everyone in our community. Blue Zones Project encourages changes in our community that lead to healthier options. When our entire community participates from our worksites and schools to our restaurants and grocery stores the small changes contribute to huge benefits for all of us: lowered healthcare costs, improved productivity, and ultimately, a higher quality of life. HISTORY OF BLUE ZONES What began as a New York Times bestseller by National Geographic Fellow Dan Buettner has evolved into a global movement thats inspiring people to live longer, more active lives with lower rates of chronic disease. From Sardinia, Italy, to Okinawa, Japan, to Loma Linda, California, people are living vibrant, active lives well into their hundreds. Buettner calls these areas Blue Zones and theyre the inspiration behind his book, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the Pe...