Explore the intricate connection between what you eat, how active you are, the stress you experience, the quality of your relationships, and their profound impact on your mental well-being.
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WELL-BEING IMPACT: FOOD, ACTIVITY, STRESS & RELATIONSHIPS ON MENTAL HEALTH
Topics: Eat Wisely Move Naturally connect Featured Right Outlook
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Healthy School Routines Inspired by the World's Blue Zones
As families, students, and educators gear up for the new school year, discover how adopting school routines inspired by the longevity practices of the world's blue zones can transform your child's health and academic performance.
Topics: Eat Wisely Move Naturally Schools connect Featured
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5 Habits for a Healthy New Year Inspired by the World's Original Blue Zones
Discover the secrets to a healthy and fulfilling life with these 5 Blue Zones-inspired habits. Learn from the world's longest-living communities and incorporate their lifestyle practices into your daily routine.
Topics: Downshift Eat Wisely Move Naturally Plant Slant connect Featured
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How the Blue Zones Project Collective Impact Approach Improved Well-Being in Three U.S. Communities
Since its establishment in 2010, Blue Zones Project by Sharecare has worked to transform well-being in 71 communities across North America, reaching more than 4.5 million residents of those communities. This decade-plus of experience in implementing the Blue Zones Project collective-impact approach to community well-being provides a unique opportunity to determine the influence the initiative has had in advancing sustained, long-term well-being improvement at the community level.
Topics: Beach Cities Featured
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Blue Zones Project SWFL’s Food Policy Council Finds Solutions to Child Food Insecurity During COVID-19
For all the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic presented, it paved the way for new solutions to answer some of society’s most persistent challenges.
As one example, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) response to child food insecurity during COVID-19 has enabled schools across the country to institute free universal feeding programs for all children 18 and under, regardless of enrollment status, and opened a leadership
opportunity for schools to
play a more expansive role in closing the nutrition gap for students and their families.
Topics: Food Access Featured
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Wellness on purpose
Imagine if you lived a healthy lifestyle by accident, making healthy choices without superhuman willpower. Starting in 2015, Blue Zones Project by Sharecare partnered with Cambia Health Foundation and local sponsors to set Oregon communities on a path to longer, better lives through shifts in people, policy, and places.
Topics: Blue Zones Project - Oregon Featured
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Turn Up the Volume: How to Hand Over the Mic to Marginalized Communities for Greater Impact
There is a difference between having an opinion and being asked to share it. We all have the former which is shaped by our experiences, relationships, values, culture, needs and beliefs. The latter, the actual expression of an opinion, only tends to emerge in a safe space where trust has been established and one’s voice feels valued. Conversely, as is often seen in disparate communities, typically quiet voices are raised when that safe space is lacking, and the pain of an experience becomes too much to bear in silence.
Topics: Built Environment Featured
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Blue Zones Project Executive Director named Top 25 Innovator by modern healthcare
We’re looking for people who are initiating and leading transformation,”
was the opening sentence from a search that began months ago for the 2020 class of Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Innovators.
Topics: Bulletin Featured
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Pandemics Cubed: Social Injustice and Chronic Disease Amplify COVID-19's Virulence
America’s current response to COVID-19 ranges from “no worries” to struggling episodically to acutely overwhelmed. The uneven response has led to catastrophic disease spread and death. Setting the stage and amplifying COVID-19's virulence are two previous and insidious pandemics.
Topics: Bulletin Featured
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Setting Goals and Taking Charge of Your Day to Cope with Covid-19
Taking control of your day-to-day life is always a worthwhile and admirable goal. The current acute worldwide threat of COVID-19 has created some opportunities for positive goal setting despite misery, morbidity, and mortality. The world is not going back to the past, and neither should smart people.
