Sardinia, one of those places where you will live longer
"What started as a National Geographic expedition to find the longest-lived cultures and ethnicities evolved into a recipe for longer lives that we've done around the world," he explains. Blue Zones , the organization that has made the map of world longevity after an arduous search and after detailed interviews with the oldest neighbors in the world.
STRAIGHT TO THE POINT
What are those five longevity hot spots?
Sardinia in Italy, Loma Linda in California, Nicoya in Costa Rica, Ikaria in Greece, and Okinawa in Japan.
HOW TO IMPROVE OUR ENVIRONMENT TO MAKE IT LONGER?
This graph perfectly summarizes the five areas that would improve any destination to improve the way of life of its inhabitants and, therefore, ensure a few more years of life.
Screenshot of the Blue Zones TED Presentation
1. Policies . Feeling safe (the feeling of safety is more effective than the fact of being safe, as confirmed by ** Dan Buettner **, journalist in charge of the Blue Zones project, in a TED conference on the factors of longevity in a city)
two. Create a good environment. A healthy environment, with green areas, with infrastructures that ensure the good habitability of the environment and optimal health.
3. Society. They create a communicative society, in contact and in tune with the needs of the common. Create social awareness.
Four. The design of buildings. Pure aesthetics? No, urban philosophy. The urban landscape that surrounds us is useful, as well as aesthetic or non-aesthetic. Give it form and put it at the service of the people: that is the way that design helps longevity.
5. Upgrade your inside. And for this, the four previous points are fundamental.