Vitality cities: the Beach Cities’ quest for longer, healthier lives
Part of the Vitality City "A Team" of national experts: Dan Buettner, Dan Burden, and Brian Wansink.The revolution began at Eat at Joes. Its leaders included a man with a grey handle-bar mustache who wore a bright yellow vest, an exuberant college professor from Iowa who came bearing the gifts of smaller plates, and a long-legged explorer who’d once bicycled from the arctic to the end of South America but who now was on a broader quest – to find a way to change Americans’ habits so that they live longer, healthier, and happier lives. A year ago, Dan Burden, Brian Wansink, and Dan Buettner arrived at Eat at Joes – home of the John Wayne omelet – to officially launch the Beach Cities’ quest to become what is known as a Vitality City. The public health initiative grew from Buettner’s work with National Geographic identifying the areas in the world where people live the longest and healthiest lives, known as Blue Zones; Vitality City seeks to apply lessons from how those people live to how people live here. The trio is the equivalent of an A-Team in public health – Burden is the leading national expert on making cities more walkable and bike-able, Wansink is the leading researcher on…
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