Good Friends Make Life Healthier
Blue Zones Project is excited to meet you on your road to well-being. Still, we realize many of you have been along for the ride for some time. Research shows that your friends have a big impact on your well-being long-term.
In fact, the world’s longevity all-stars living in the original Blue Zones® areas enjoy deep life-long friendships. They share their lives and healthy habits with one another, and the result is a happier, healthier community of individuals.
For all of us, friends can have a big impact on our health. It can be helpful for us to stop and think about how we spend time with our friends. Do we meet up for a walk after work or vent over a drink or chocolate cake?
The difference may seem harmless, but it can add up over time. The Blue Zones® Tribe Checkup helps you to take a closer look at which friendships support your well-being. Pledge to do the Tribe Checkup today and learn how you can bring healthier habits into all your relationships.
By making small changes with your friends now, you can help to ensure a long and happy future together.
Did you know people you don’t even know affect your emotions and behaviors?
- Your friends’ friends’ friends influence your emotional, social, and physical well-being and impact your healthy behaviors.
- Each unhappy friend decreases your likelihood of happiness by 7%.
- If your friends are obese, you’re about twice as likely to be overweight.
Friends are better than gold. Research has found that an increase of $10,000 of income per year improves the likelihood of happiness by just 2%. Compare that to a 15% boost of happiness as a result of your connection to a happy friend or 6-10% lift from someone you may have never met, but to whom you are indirectly tied!
