When Kema Ward-Hopper and her then-fiance Nicholas Hopper, both from the US, decided to get married in Costa Rica, they had no ... country’s very own “blue zone,” one of the regions of ...

Other Blue Zones are Okinawa in Japan ... We experience real life on a typical Costa Rican farm with a Tico family ($132/£105pp for 3-4 people, bookable through hotel) where traditional methods ...

Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula is one of five "Blue Zones" known for ... and had seen firsthand how Blue Zone tourism had changed his life and that of his family. "The people, a long time ago ...

an investment in family; a sense of faith; and a sense of purpose, known as ‘plan de vida’. Costa Rica (Getty Images) Other Blue Zones are Okinawa in Japan, Ikaria in Greece, Sardinia ...

Which family a person belongs to is more important ... have a good chance of joining the ranks of so-called centenarians. But Costa Rica's blue zone is fragile. The Nicoya Peninsula is no longer ...

Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula is one of the world's blue zones, where residents live longer. I tried the Costa Rican diet for about two weeks and saw big differences to meals in the US.

focusing specifically on the healthy attributes identified in this Costa Rican blue zone, like the cultural emphasis on social interactions and family ties. As Vadam explained to me, Blue Zones ...

Did you know Costa Rica has a “blue zone,” where people reportedly live ... With a warmer climate, active community, and family-oriented lifestyle, Costa Ricans age 60 and older ranked ...

One of those lessons resides in the food culture of an 80-mile-long peninsula in Central America, named a blue zone in the early 2000s. The residents of Nicoya, Costa Rica—known for its coastal ...

By incorporating elements of ‘Blue Zone’ living into well-being ... We experience real life on a typical Costa Rican farm with a Tico family ($132/£105pp for 3-4 people, bookable through ...