by: Max Dible (West Hawaii Today)
Adding years to your life wouldn’t normally make you blue.
The opposite is true across Hawaii Island, however, as it earned the distinctions of the first countywide and first islandwide Blue Zones Project in the nation with the addition of West Hawaii to the endeavor.
Blue Zones Project West Hawaii’s Kirstin Kahaloa, who serves as community engagement lead, summed up the initiative.
“It’s a grassroots health initiative to promote nine theories (of health and wellness) in various activities and various educational opportunities,” she said.
The theories began with Dan Buettner, a National Geographic Fellow, who traveled across the world looking for the common threads of the healthiest, longest-living communities.
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