Finnegan, JohnLeslie Lyttle2023-10-192023-10-192009-06-25https://hdl.handle.net/11299/257628Runtime 1:30 minutesThis resource is provided for informational purposes only and may not reflect current scientific knowledge or medical recommendations.Welcome to Public Health Moment from the University of Minnesota. Albert Lea, Minnesota is the center of an innovative, ten-month pilot project designed to improve the health and life expectancy of people who live and work there. It’s called the AARP Blue Zones Vitality Project. Leslie Lyttle, a University of Minnesota epidemiology professor, is co-director of the project. <Clip: “So, the Blue Zones has identified four main…and knowing your purpose in life.”> Lyttle says that instead of focusing on diet and exercise, the project encourages the best practices of the world's longest-lived populations with strategies such as making it easier to get around on and encouraging the development of social networks. <clip: “Within the last three weeks, Blue Zones…the community as a whole was prepared for this.”> With another Public Health Moment I’m John Finnegan.enAudio