by: Vera Westbrook (The News-Review)
With speakers, T-shirts, music and balloons, Blue Zones Project officially kicked off Monday night at Jacoby Auditorium at Umpqua Community College.
Oregon Blue Zones Project is a community-wide health initiative designed to make healthy choices easier for Douglas County. It’s inspired by the life habits learned from the world’s five longest-living cultures located in Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Loma Linda, California; Nicoya, Costa Rica; and Ikaria, Greece. Blue Zone regions are communities where people live active lives past 100 years of age.
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