National health program eyeing Charleston
The Blue Zones Project, a national community wellness program, is considering coming to Charleston, it announced Monday to a packed room at The Schoolhouse, an event venue and co-working space in West Ashley.
“There’s great need and readiness in Charleston, and motivation to do this level of work,” said Shannon Draayer, implementations manager at Blue Zones LLC, the company that leads the Blue Zones Project.
The project is based on research by Dan Buettner, a journalist and researcher who found five communities around the world where people live on average 10 years longer than people do in the United States, with less prevalence of disease. Buettner identified nine similarities among the communities, which he called blue zones, and the Blue Zones Project is meant to bring those similarities to communities in the United States.
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