Learn how to make healthier choices at Blue Zones Project roundups
August 25,2014
Posted Aug. 20, 2014 - City of Fort Worth - City News
Blue Zones Project
Attend one of more than 15 different events to learn how families, employers, schools, restaurants, grocery stores and neighborhoods are coming together to make healthy choices easier in Fort Worth.
Blue Zones Project, a communitywide well-being improvement initiative to help make healthy choices easier, has planned a series of Community Roundups to demonstrate how healthy choices can become easier and how you can become engaged.
The roundups are scheduled through September in all parts of Fort Worth.
A vital part of Fort Worth’s Healthiest City Initiative, Blue Zones Project encourages changes to our community that lead to healthier options. When the entire community participates — from worksites and schools to restaurants and grocery stores — small changes contribute to huge benefits like lower healthcare costs, improved productivity and, ultimately, a higher quality of life.
Blue Zones Project was born out of National Geographic explorer Dan Buettner’s examination of communities across the globe where people were happily living the longest. A team of medical researchers, anthropologists, demographers and epidemiologists uncovered nine evidence-based common denominators among these “Blue Zones,” such as moving naturally and having a sense of purpose.
Buettner founded the Blue Zones organization to bring these secrets of longevity to a broad audience, partnering with wellbeing improvement leader Healthways in 2009. Healthways has successfully implemented Blue Zones Projects in the Beach Cities of Southern California and the entire state of Iowa, with implementation also underway in the entire state of Hawaii in addition to Fort Worth.
To learn more, visit the Blue Zones Project Fort Worth website.
