Face-To-Face Contacts Impact Your Health And Longevity

Face-to-face contacts impact your health and longevityThe article talks about impacting your health and longevity. After reading, I discovered that Sardinia in Itali is one of the original blue zone areas in the whole world. A blue zone area according to my understanding is a geographical area where people live longer lives up to 90 years and above and have low rates of chronic disease. The unique thing that piqued my interest regarding Sardinia is that men live as long as women. In most places, women tend to live longer lives than men. The article further gives reasons why Sardinia has the longest-living men in the world. According to the research done in the village of Villagrande, as people grew old they were surrounded by friends and family. Even the strangers that were around were very friendly which seemed to increase the mortality rate among other factors. We tend to think that predictors of how long we live are diet, exercise, and overall health. The article also brings up the findings of Julianne HoltLundstad regarding the important predictors of longevity. The first predictor is social integration which refers to the unification of separate groups of people in a society which