On the other hand, Dan Buettner found another such place. The Japanese Okinawa Island. With the longest disability-free life expectancy in the world found there. They set out on an expedition to these places to find out why people lived for so long here. The team of scientists and demographers explores the world and finds five such Blue Zones.
The first was Sardinia in Italy. Second, Okinawa in Japan. Third, in the American state of California Loma Linda’s Seventh-day Adventist community. It is a religious sect within Christianity. Fourth, the island of Icaria in Greece. And fifth, the region of the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica.
People living in these five blue zones live a longer life than the rest of the world. Is there anything special about these places? Maybe the clean water and clean air here or is it the lifestyle choices of these people that facilitates this. Dan and his team worked for years to find out the real reason.
And finally, when they publish their report, they say that the real reason was the lifestyle habits of the residents. Specifically, 9 lifestyle habits were common across these regions. They refer to these 9 habits as Power 9. What are these habits? Let’s find out one by one so that you can learn from them, implement them in your life and live a long life.
