by: Samuel Stebbins, Michael B. Sauter, Evan Comen and Thomas C. Frohlich (24/7 Wall St.)
Karissa Price, president of Healthways, told 24/7 Wall St. that a Healthways initiative, known as the Blue Zones Project, invests in well-being and aims to improve longevity and quality of life, irrespective of income. Blue Zones identified certain behaviors and attitudes common in some of the world’s happiest and longest living populations, such as having a sense of purpose, eating right, and cultivating close relationships.
Texas and Florida had the some of the largest improvements in well-being in the history of the survey, a trend Price argued can be attributed to the introduction of Blue Zones interventions. “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that [Texas and Florida] happen to be the places where we’ve seen the greatest interest in 2016 in expanding the Blue Zones work.”
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