Blue Zones Summer Challenge: Week 5 results

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By Michele Cullen
Community Health Manager/Public Health, Genesis VNA and Hospice
      This week, the focus is the seventh healthy habit from the Power 9™: Right tribe. According to Blue Zones Project, the world's longest-lived people either are born into or choose to create social circles that support healthy behaviors.
      Ikarians enjoy tight-knit communities that socialize frequently, while Okinawans build "moai" groups of five friends that commit to each other for life. Research from the Framingham Studies shows that smoking, obesity, happiness and even loneliness are contagious.
      Assessing who you hang out with, and then proactively surrounding yourself with the right friends, will do more to add years to your life than just about anything else.
      I love thinking of happiness as contagious. Luckily, most positive emotions and habits also catch easily. It is exciting to think that if I am happy and I have a positive outlook, I can spread that to those around me.
      I challenge the citizens of Clinton to review your activities and increase the positive aspects of your life and decrease negative aspects. I know that the more I surround myself with the characteristics I value, the more I become the person I want to be. That will attract more people with those admirable, desirable traits.
      My church, friends, and business activities have blessed me with a right tribe, which encourages me to nurture that same positive energy in all aspects of my life.

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August 14, 2012

Blue Zones Summer Challenge: Week 5 results

Anonymous Herald Staff Report The Clinton Herald Tue Aug 14, 2012, 11:30 AM CDT

CLINTON — Every Tuesday, the Clinton Herald is posting the results of the nine-week Blue Zones Summer Challenge, in which local teams compare their minutes of activity for the previous week.

There are 23 teams involved in the challenge, which will continue into early September. The challenge is part of Clinton’s work to become designated a Blue Zone community.

To pledge support for the project visit www.bluezonesproject.com/citizens/signup or text BZP to 772937. For more information, check out the Clinton Blue Zones Project Facebook page or bluezonesproject.com.

Results for week of Aug. 4 to 10 / Participants / Total

City of Clinton — Team Rita: ... 10 / 742 / 2,972

Clinton County Case Management — Six Girls and a Geek: ... 7 / 551 / 2,464

YWCA — Team Ferocious Bubble Eaters: ... 17 / 490 / 2,419

Mercy Auxiliary — Team V: ... 21 / 681 / 2,350

ADM — Team Under Construction: ... 5 / 625 / 2,327

Clinton Chamber of Commerce: ... 7 / 266 / 1,989

ASAC: ... 16 / 310 / 1,985

Medical Associates: ... 5 / 621 / 1,938

Clinton Community College — Team Movers: ...13 / 364 / 1,849

YWCA —Team Empowerment: ... 12 / 396 / 1,677

ADM Team Polymer: ... 15 / 0 / 1,598

Bemis-Clysar: ... 26 / 442 / 1,552

ADM — Team In It to Thin It: ... 5 / 269 / 1,371

Ashford University: ... 43 / 298 / 1,302

HyVee: ... 13 / 209 / 1,250

Clinton Herald: ... 13 / 208 / 1,192

Comprehensive Rehab: ... 14 / 328 / 1,135

Mercy Medical: ... 108 / 203 / 1,062

Genesis VNA: ... 4 / 218 / 1,038

Gateway Impact: ... 4 / 375 / 1,017

Cadogan Chiropractic: ... 2 / 260 / 965

City of Clinton — Team Jeff: ... 12 / 0 / 748

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