Live better, longer
Blue Zones Project® encourages changes in our community that lead to healthier options. When our entire community participates—from our worksites and schools to our restaurants and grocery stores—the small changes contribute to huge benefits for all of us: lowered healthcare costs, improved productivity, and ultimately, a higher quality of life.
Gallup’s National Health and Well-Being Index
In Our Community
Blue Zones Project Parkland-Spanaway partners with Gallup Inc. to conduct surveys that measure the well-being of adults in a community. Gallup’s National Health and Well-Being Index will be distributed randomly across the Parkland-Spanaway community. In the survey invitation, recipients are provided with a direct mail survey and a link to a unique access code if they prefer completing the survey online.
The survey includes a series of questions across five areas of well-being: community, career, social, physical, and financial. Our goal is to use this survey to measure the well-being of adults in Parkland-Spanaway over time and identify well-being strengths and opportunities where Blue Zones Project can provide support.
Surveys will include a $1 incentive and questions will be available in Spanish and English.
Discovering the blue zones
It all began with the original five blue zones—Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California. In these regions, people not only regularly live into the triple digits, they thrive. At advanced ages, their bodies are still healthy and their minds are still sharp. Dan Buettner and his team of researchers were eventually able to pinpoint commonalities in things residents of these places do that result in living long, happy lives. The blue zones hold many longevity secrets, and there’s a lot we can learn from the residents of these special places.
Live the Power 9
Researchers found that despite being located in vastly different parts of the world, blue zones residents share nine specific traits that can lead to longer, healthier, happier lives. We call these the Power 9®.
Stay connected with community opportunities
If you are interested in living longer and creating a healthier community, sign up to learn more about Blue Zones Project – Parkland-Spanaway opportunties.
Organizations
We develop deep relationships with a broad array of organizations in a community to help make healthy choices become easy choices in all of the places where people live, work, learn, and play.
Get your organization involved
Connect your worksite, school, restaurant, grocery store, faith-based, or other organization to the community and elevate its well-being. Where we choose to live, work, learn, and play all influence the lifestyle choices we make. Blue Zones Project programs are designed to inspire, encourage, and promote well-being within your organization so your employees, members, and customers are more socially connected and equipped to positively impact one another and the entire community.
