Could Albert Lea be a new Blue Zone?
By Richard Chin, St. Paul Pioneer Press Published Wednesday, October 14, 2009 For the past 10 months, the southern Minnesota town has tried to adopt the lifestyle habits of such places as Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; and Icaria, Greece, dubbed ‘Blue Zones’ because residents live extraordinarily long and healthy lives. Under something called the AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project, sponsored with a $750,00 grant from United Health Foundation, Albert Lea was chosen for a pilot project to see whether a typical small American town could become a Blue Zone, too. Since January, city officials and residents — with the guidance of experts like Dan Buettner, the Minnesota author and explorer who wrote a book about Blue Zones — have been forming walking groups, installing bike racks and sidewalks, and working in community gardens. There have been programs to get children to school in “walking school buses” and to get local grocery stores to put up signs identifying “longevity” foods. Residents
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