by: Earl Horlyk (Sioux City Journal)
Mattie Carstens used to think she had a healthy lifestyle.
That is, until the Morningside College senior became involved with the Sioux City Blue Zones Project.
"As a college student, I was spending most of my time sitting at a desk," Carstens said. "I certainly wasn't living a healthy lifestyle."
A cornerstone in an initiative to make Iowa the healthiest state in the nation, the Blue Zones Project named Sioux City as one of the organization's demonstration sites in January 2013.
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