Residents of the "Blue Zones" live in very different parts of the world and Sicily is one of them! The Blue Zone countrieds have nine commonalities that lead to longer, healthier and happier lives!" Imagine a place with no senior homes, where elders stay active and enjoy a moderate daily intake of red wine. Welcome to Mondello and the Italy Education Center in Sicily!
Read more »One hundred years old: It’s an age most people, including the average North American won’t reach yet certain areas in the world are hotspots for centenarians. To find out why that is, National Geographic and a research team headed by Dan Buettner set out to learn about the five original places on earth where a demographic tends to live considerably longer than the rest of the world — those places are called Blue Zones.
Read more »Located on the Italian island of Sicily, Mondello is a small villagehome to a population where one in 600 people reach the age of 100. That number may not seem like much at first, but when you compare it to Saskatchewan a norther Province in Canada or many other states in the central North American region where approximate centenarian rate from the 2011 Census of one in 3,226 (the highest in North America), it’s impressive. The criteria for becoming a Blue Zone is having a centenarian rate that is an astounding three times higher than the national average.
Read more »The island of Sicily and the various islands that surround it are a unique BLUE ZONE in the world. The idea of a Blue Zones is an anthropological concept that describes the characteristic lifestyles and the environments of the world's longest-lived people. The term first appeared as an international concept in the November 2005 National Geographic magazine cover story "The Secrets of a Long Life" by Dan Buettner.
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