The Adventist Church has been promoting a healthy lifestyle to anyone who would listen since its inception. Today, members congregating in Adventist-saturated locales have generated Blue Zones, or longevity spots. Loma Linda is now known as one of five Blue Zones in the world and the only one in the United States.
“Studies have shown that Seventh-day Adventists, who have a broad range of ethnic backgrounds, live as much as a decade longer than the rest of us,” writes Marcy MacVean of the Los Angeles Times.
According to Juliette Steen, associate food editor of Huffington Post, Australia, “There are three key aspects to Blue Zones: diet, meaningful activity, and community and family engagement.”