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3 responses to “WATCH: If You Want to Stay Healthy, Forget the Gym”

1. If these seniors don’t go to a gym, how do they keep their muscles and bones supple?

   Reply to lorraine

2. The article makes a lot of sense. Why is stress not mentioned? Is it that these Blue Zoners don’t experience much of it? Are they medically healthy and insured? Do they have financial security? Are these retirees? How do they support themselves? What occupations did they have and when did they stop working?The Zones seem like places where families and extended families stay together for a lifetime. They are also living in Nature for decades and it is well known that Nature heals, mentally as well as physically, so of course they don’t need a gym. What is the proportion of elderly to the rest of the population? What roles do they play and how are they seen and treated in the culture?

   You say researchers studied these people for ten years, but you are giving the reader very incomplete factual information. So much so that one can deduce very little from it, let alone try to compare and adapt it to current lifestyle of seniors in the culture of the U.S.
   Can you elaborate in future articles? A series, perhaps? The research probably covers all the points I have brought up and
   access to it could prove very helpful.

   Reply to sarai

   1. Sarai, good point. There’s plenty of information on the Blue Zones project and we’ll follow up with a more in-depth piece. Stay tuned.

      Reply to Barbara, Senior Planet editor