When one thinks of recovery post-hospitalization, the images that usually spring to mind are of sterile hospital rooms, beeping machines, and bustling nurses.
Gentle physical activity which keeps their metabolism at higher rates and keeps their food being processed more smoothly and more thoroughly throughout the day. so now that we re talking about what s being done other places, if you want to bring it to the united states, i think we would be hard to have change all of those habits, but i understand you re using sample blue zones or you re trying to create them. what do you think the biggest challenge is there? well, the biggest challenge is to get people thinking about change in the environment rather than thinking about fun runs and eating your veggies. i m in los angeles right now. we work with the beach city health district here, and after two years of using blue zones tenets applying them to cities, we ve seen 1500 fewer people who are obese. about 3,000 fewer smokers by just changing the way the policies, the built environment, social networks, and the way