Why do people live longer in Costa Rica?
Report from the ‘Blue Zone’: Why Do People Live Long in Costa Rica?
A First-Hand Report on Where People Age Best
This does not come as a surprise to me at all. People in Costa Rica do not have the stress that most of the industrial nations have. You combine nature, good air, overall stability and most of all the attitude of the population and you have a recipe for health and wealth.
The Nicoya Peninsula has been mentioned being the one place where people tend to reach the highest age in all of the Americas.
For the 75,000 or so people who live here, life proceeds much the way as it has for hundreds of years. Nicoyans make their living as small farmers, laborers or sabaneros — cowboys who work the area’s huge cattle ranches. Judging by the dusty villages where neighbors hang out on porches, or the rural homes where women still cook on ancient wood-burning stoves, you’d never guess that the Nicoya is the longest-life place in the Americas.
You have to however be in Costa Rica to really feel what the citizens and vacationers are feeling.
And by the way, you can drink and smoke almost everywhere and people still tend to live longer.
There is a lot more to quality of life than not smoking and watching what you eat.
Or it is a combination of everything.
Regardless, when it comes to feeling well and living a happy life, Costa Rica beats all of the other nations in America and probably the world.
Go Costa Rica!
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