Altru Health System has partnered with Blue Zones Project to become a Certified
Blue Zones Worksite. Employees spend about 25% of their week at work,
and at Altru, we want to create an environment where healthy choices are
easier to make. We encourage all employees to improve their well-being
by moving more, eating better and connecting socially with a purpose.
A Certified Blue Zones Worksites leverages the
Blue Zones Power 9 longevity principles to improve employee engagement while transforming
the workplace environment so individuals are happier and healthier.
What is Blue Zones Project?
In 2004, Dan Buettner teamed with National Geographic, the National Institute
on Aging, and the world’s best longevity researchers to identify
pockets around the world where people lived measurably better, longer.
In these five areas—dubbed “blue zones”—researchers
found that people reach age 100 at a rate 10 times higher than in the
United States, and they do so with lower rates of chronic disease.
It all began with the original five blue zones—Okinawa, Japan;
Sardinia, Italy;
Nicoya, Costa Rica;
Ikaria, Greece; and
Loma Linda, California. In these regions, people not only regularly live into the triple digits,
they thrive. At advanced ages, their bodies are still healthy, and their
minds are still sharp. Dan Buettner and his team of researchers were eventually
able to pinpoint commonalities in things residents of these places do
that result in living long, happy lives.
In 2004, Dan Buettner teamed with National Geographic, the National Institute
on Aging, and the world’s best longevity researchers to identify
pockets around the world where people lived measurably better, longer.
In these five areas—dubbed “blue zones”—researchers
found that people reach age 100 at a rate 10 times higher than in the
United States, and they do so with lower rates of chronic disease.
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