The Blue Zone makeover: a family’s story
Gavin Galimi and his two year old daughter, Sophia. Photo by Kathalina Rodriguez The dozen or so people who gathered in a basement room at the Beach Cities Health District one night late in August didn’t look like a gathering of particularly unhealthy people. And that, in the end, may have been the point of the Blue Zones Makeover experience. National Geographic explorer and bestselling author Dan Buettner had put out a call for people to volunteer for what he called the Blue Zones makeover as a way to demonstrate, through them, how simple lifestyle changes can result in significant and positive changes in health. These changes, derived from his research into areas of the world where people live the longest and healthiest lives – the so-called Blues Zones of Okinawa, Sardinia, Costa Rica, and Lorba Linda – are the core of the Vitality City public health initiative, which seeks to measurably improve the overall health and well-being of the entire Beach Cities population. The people who responded to Buettner’s call for volunteers were fairly typical of the Beach Cities. A Gallup poll conducted as part of the Vitality Cities launch in late 2010 revealed that the Beach Cities ranked…
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