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You’ve probably heard that lifestyle choices affect how long you live. But what if the bigger factor isn’t willpower, it’s your environment? Researchers studying the world’s longest-lived communities found that people in Blue Zones aren’t trying harder than the rest of us. They’ve just built their daily lives around habits that make healthy behavior almost […]

Blue Zones are places around the world where people consistently live longer, healthier lives. Researchers identified five of them: Sardinia, Italy; Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa, Japan; Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; and Loma Linda, California. What they found in each of these communities wasn’t a miracle drug or a trendy diet. It was a way of life,