by: Doug Thompson (Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette)
Pursuing good health is too often a lonely path of dieting and working out, about 100 Northwest Arkansas community leaders were told Wednesday. A healthy community improves lives much more effectively, they were told.
"If you get together with friends who are sharing healthy meals, you're more likely to eat healthy," said Ben Leedle, president of Blue Zones LLC. At the other extreme, "if your three best friends smoke, you are 160 percent more likely to smoke," he said.
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